{"id":742965,"date":"2013-03-21T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=389524"},"modified":"2013-03-21T19:30:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:30:24","slug":"youtube-mulls-creating-paid-subscription-video-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/742965","title":{"rendered":"YouTube mulls creating paid subscription video channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/21\/youtube-subscription-channels-389524\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"534\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/youtube.jpg?w=650&#038;h=534&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C534\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"YouTube Subscription Channels\" title=\"YouTube\" \/><\/a><\/center>Would you pay a monthly subscription fee to watch Harlem Shake and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/12\/google-top-searches-2012\/\">Gangnam Style parodies<\/a>? Probably not, but that doesn't mean there isn't <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/21\/youtube-1-billion-monthly-viewers-388824\/\">some content on YouTube<\/a> that you'd be willing to pay for at some point. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2013\/03\/21\/youtube-execs-talk-up-paid-subscription-channels\/\"><em>The<\/em> <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports<\/a> that YouTube executives are batting around the idea of letting YouTube content creators start their own subscription-based channels to give them additional revenue streams besides advertising dollars.\u00a0Robert Kyncl, a YouTube vice president, acknowledged to the <em>Journal<\/em> that it will be tough for content providers to get users to \"take out a credit card\" before watching their videos but added that there will be \u201ca lot of experimentation\u201d and that \u201cover time, a lot of people will figure it out.\u201d The <em>Journal<\/em> says that YouTube isn't even close to making a formal announcement about subscription channels, however, and that the idea is still in its preliminary stages.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/friUYVdxjO8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you pay a monthly subscription fee to watch Harlem Shake and Gangnam Style parodies? Probably not, but that doesn&#8217;t mean there isn&#8217;t some content on YouTube that you&#8217;d be willing to pay for at some point. The Wall Street Journal reports that YouTube executives are batting around the idea of letting YouTube content creators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2340,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37hj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}