Previously, I mentioned the effects that using adblockers on the internet has. It costs website owners 6.6 BILLION dollars of earned income, but in exchange, Adblock can remove the ads from almost any site to clean up distractions and enchance the focus on the content the media consumer. However, recently Google has launched their own program to combat this loss of income, but also bring in more money for them and their content creators. That program is the Red program.
Red not only brings ad-free viewing for $10 a month, but it also strives to create exclusive content, allow background playing of videos, offline viewing, but most importantly for a potential subscriber such as myself, it allows unlimited Google Play Music streaming. This music streaming subscription costs $10 alone, but if I could have offline/background playing YouTube videos, and also see PewDiePie's exclusive videos, that would just be AwEsOmE! While $120 a year is a lot for me, I think Google will win a minority of people, particularly old Google Play Music subscribers, but if Google throws in one more compelling reason, I, and many others, may be more pursuaded to go with this option. However, for now, I will stick to playing music videos with the screen on, using Adblock, and listening to Pandora and SoundCloud.
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