POLL: Do you pay for ad-free YouTube?

I use adblockers and alternative clients!

No, but I should.

I just don't get that bothered by the ads, you can nearly always skip after 5 seconds and the other benefits they offer such as background play, isn't appealing enough to justify the cost. The only benefit I like is saving videos for offline use, but for £11.99/month - nope.

I only go to YouTube from time to time, I don't use it everyday like Spotify which I pay for.

I did 6 months or so and stopped, having a ad-free experience was nice but didn't think it costing as much as Spotify was worth it.

I use YT Premium because I have an early bird discount, and I LOVE ad-free YouTube. I am often tempted to bail for Spotify or Apple Music , and Google's Music solution (long live GPM or YT Music?) could use much more work to be really good. Right now, it's just good enough.

Yes and it is totally worth every penny.

I don’t actually use it that much, I find Vimeo much better.

I did when I subscribed to Google play music, but I don't sub too play music anymore because the selection and interface didn't suit me

I'd love to meet people who do. Compared to things you can pay for online, ad-free YouTube is the lowest on my list, or not even on the list altogether. I would be very interested to see the data of people who pay for Ad-free Youtube broken down by income level and geographic location.

My reason for not paying is a bit different. I have been targeted by interesting set of ads and that has helped me discover new relevant products and youtubers. So I don't mind it at all. Also, at this point, I have just gotten used to the waiting I suppose. I do know a few people who pay for it and are quite happy.

Adblockers you guys and I don't want to pay being a frugal person myself for all of these services, netflix, spotify, youtube, hulu etc and now new ones like disney and applet tv+ it's going to be too much and we're all going to have to side or stick to 2 or 3

I mostly use the youtube app on my phone and have been a premium user since it was introduced. I like the no ads, background play features too much to let them go for a few bucks (169 INR per month in my case)

Hello @Abadesi, I believe that busyness people who work in the field relevant to marketing, creative work or some kind of product development, should not block all ads and should be exposed to ads on daily basis as much as they could. And that is from two reasons: First, we need to be introduced to all new things which are happening, and get new creative ideas, as well as to catch new marketing tricks and trends. And second, we need to be aware how marketing ads affect people, experiencing it from the first hand. We would surely be somewhat subjective and more tolerant to extensive amount of ads, but when we feel something is boring or its too much, it will give us insight how other people might feel about ads. That way business people develop a good sense and taste for executing a good and effective marketing, and constantly upgrade the knowledge and experience, which will on one way or another result better product and company.

I do. But through a VPN in India. I only pay €2ish per month because of geo pricing. I think the price for YouTube Premium is way too expensive.

I do. 12€ for YT music and YT premium is a great deal for me.

It also gives me free youtube music subscription, I was paying the same for spotify, I was getting two things here on the same plan, hence started paying for this.

I do because I use youtube a lot for watching news and tutorials. I have ad blocker on my desktop but I need ad-free in mobile, which I also use it for listening music. I think I've been using premium for 2 years almost

Ad block, bro

Heck no. If I can avoid giving my money to an organization that punishes (however inadvertently) LGBTQ+ creators, I will.