<story><title>YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/youtube-red/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>WTF does this mean?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; And any creator who doesn’t sign the deal for YouTube Red will have their videos on the ad-free old-school YouTube hidden from view. That’s pretty harsh.&lt;p&gt;So YouTube is saying if you don&amp;#x27;t join their new subscription plan they will just not display your videos on YouTube?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Just heard back. Yes, this is exactly what happened, and it&amp;#x27;s now going into motion. If you are a YouTube creator and you don&amp;#x27;t agree to be a part of this new service, your channel will removed and your videos won&amp;#x27;t appear in search results. In other words, all of your videos are made &amp;quot;private&amp;quot; and you&amp;#x27;re pretty much dead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpodgursky</author><text>My understanding is, if you don&amp;#x27;t sign the deal, your videos won&amp;#x27;t show for people on the ad-free site.&lt;p&gt;How else could you implement this?  If I buy a subscription for an ad-free site, it can&amp;#x27;t mean that it&amp;#x27;s ad-free except for videos posted by people who haven&amp;#x27;t signed the contract.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/youtube-red/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>WTF does this mean?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; And any creator who doesn’t sign the deal for YouTube Red will have their videos on the ad-free old-school YouTube hidden from view. That’s pretty harsh.&lt;p&gt;So YouTube is saying if you don&amp;#x27;t join their new subscription plan they will just not display your videos on YouTube?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Just heard back. Yes, this is exactly what happened, and it&amp;#x27;s now going into motion. If you are a YouTube creator and you don&amp;#x27;t agree to be a part of this new service, your channel will removed and your videos won&amp;#x27;t appear in search results. In other words, all of your videos are made &amp;quot;private&amp;quot; and you&amp;#x27;re pretty much dead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>This was big news when it was first announced in 2014. This launch has been long in the making, you can find lots of articles that cover the complaints independents had about having their videos removed:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pando.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;screwyoutube-people-are-finally-realizing-that-youtube-screws-musicians-worse-than-anybody&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pando.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;17&amp;#x2F;screwyoutube-people-are-finally...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;youtube-independent-record-label-deals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;technology&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;jun&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;youtube-in...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also many blog posts floating around, just search YouTube record label deals.</text></comment>