Google is pretty busy, communicating with television networks in a bid to have them stream shows on YouTube. The plan is to stream content on the online video juggernaut pricing each at $1.99. Good enough and it would actually do good with only one drawback that you will not be able to download these. And that is quite a drawback to begin with, I mean why in the world should I pay a subscription fee only to have them stream online when I can readily have them downloaded at the same price?
Well I am sure that is exactly how consumers are going to react to this. But if this one actually gets underway, it will all fall in the right place for YouTube, given that it has been trying to scatter its strategy to better monetize the massive traffic that the site gets. Wait a minute, what about Google saying that YouTube isn’t about monetizing? It’s definitely not a charity and sooner or later it had to step in monetizing the content as well.
