YouTube may enter a subscription fee for the subscription to the channels this spring.

Subscribing to video hosting channels may be paid. This news on March 21 was indirectly confirmed to journalists by Robert Kinzl, Google's vice president in charge of Youtube. In an interview with journalists, he noted that this innovation will help and bring additional income to developers and content creators. There is information from, as they say, reliable sources that the monthly fee can be entered in the second quarter of 2013 and it will be from $ 1 to $ 5 per month. And at first it will be introduced in experimental mode. Youtube is reportedly already in talks with content producers about placing paid channels.

Kienzl also said that a paid subscription would entail a lot of experimentation. The challenge for YouTube and content providers will be to convince people to pay for the subscription and the opportunity to watch the channel. But Kienzl is full of optimism and said that as time goes on, many people will begin to figure this out.
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Youtube to attract attention to a paid subscription can count on some big names. For example, the creator of the films "Alien", "Prometheus", "Blade Runner" and others, film director Ridley Scott is going to make 12 short science fiction films for Machinima. Machinima is one of the most popular channels on YouTube. Also, producer Amirican Idol, Simon Cowel plans to launch a new talent show on a paid channel.

Meanwhile, the day before the company announced that the site’s audience exceeded 1 billion users. On YouTube, it is estimated that every second Internet user in the world comes to video hosting.

[A source]