YouTube has become increasingly unwatchable. I get that the ad market is in not so hot shape. I get that the big push in business these days is to get recurring revenue through things like subscriptions. That’s just the nature of the beast right now.

Engadget reports that YouTube is now on a global campaign to get people to pay for YouTube Premium. I don’t see the value proposition as being sufficiently compelling to pay more for watching User Generated Content than I pay per month for various paid streamers such as PBS Passport and Paramount+. If anything this pushes me towards possibly having to migrate the church’s streaming off YouTube to either a paid streaming resource like Vimeo or see about what we can do to stand up an owncast instance.

This is yet another part of the tumultuous twenties, it seems…