It's incredible how many Twitch viewers don't even know that Twitch Turbo exists, and that Twitch itself has done an terrible job of promoting it. Twitch is impossible to watch with ads.
I got ad-free Twitch years ago with Twitch Prime. And then they added ads back in for Prime users. How long will it be until they start adding ads back in for Turbo users?
Twitch Turbo only has two tangible selling points AFAIK:
1. No ads
2. 90 days to store recordings of your live streams instead of 30 days.
I think if you take out that first selling point no one would buy it.
Why don't people just pay the $10/month if you consume enough for ads to annoy you? I really don't get the extreme amount of effort people put into adblocking for services that have a paid alternative. People have this expectation of all these internet services being free which is wild to me. It costs an enormous amount of bandwidth to run Twitch. It is still not profitable because it's such a hard business model to…
I’m already paying for a bunch of subscriptions on Twitch. Why am I expected to pay another $10 to block ads. Bittorent created a p2p streaming technology like 5 years ago.
> Why am I expected to pay another $10 to block ads.
You aren't.
Twitch Turbo costs $12/month. If you're spending more than that on multiple subscriptions then you're better off getting Twitch Turbo and not getting ads on any stream, rather than just those you subscribe to.
The vaft script with Ublock Origin works for me really well There is Twitch Turbo but it's 3x more expensive than Youtube Premium and doesn't really have any special benefits. But hey Bezos might need a new yacht so guess the price is justified. https://www.twitch.tv/turbo
What country? I'm seeing $12/mo for turbo and $14/mo for YT Premium
I'm in Hungary, Youtube Premium is 4.54€ while Turbo is 11.29€, ok not 3x just 2.5x
My assumption is that the demographic is hard to reach because they are mostly fluent in ad-blocking.
Perhaps companies could reach this demo by investing their ad budget into having a better product that the hard to reach potential customers will recommend to each other. Someone come up with a catchy name for this and write a LinkedIn post.
If you can come up with a way to monetize a "free" video platform without ads, you could sell the idea alone for billions.
Why don't people just pay the $10/month if you consume enough for ads to annoy you? I really don't get the extreme amount of effort people put into adblocking for services that have a paid alternative. People have this expectation of all these internet services being free which is wild to me. It costs an enormous amount of bandwidth to run Twitch. It is still not profitable because it's such a hard business model to…
People are entitled and constantly fed rhetoric online that it is morally acceptable to steal by blocking ads. As a YouTube content creator, who makes educational tech videos, I have seen my share of complaints because I dare to take a sponsorship. People simply do not assign value to digital goods, they are seen as free by default.
They are free by default. Digital goods don't follow regular economics. A carpenter who makes a table can make ONE sale from that table. How many sales of a digital good can you have? What entitles you to potentially unlimited money from a set amount of work? Any attempt to turn limit digital goods to the way physical goods work, introduces friction and extra work only for the legitimate customers. Donation is the only ethical for of payment for digital goods.
Because eventually premium users will get ads too as we are seeing with many other streaming services. First it’s pay, no ads. Then it’s higher tier for no ads. Then it’s higher tier no ads but watch a trailer at the beginning. Then it’s higher tier and ads.
You're refusing to pay for a product today based on what they might do in the future? Does the future possibility degrade today's product? Can't you just cancel your subscription if ads start showing up?