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YouTube Becomes Top Grossing iPhone App for the First Time

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YouTube today achieved a milestone, becoming the Top Grossing Free iPhone app in the U.S. App Store for the first time, according to data app analytics site Sensor Tower shared with TechCrunch.

Prior to today, the highest ranking YouTube had hit on the Top Grossing charts was #3, and the United States marks the first country where YouTube has reached the number one spot.

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YouTube has been climbing up the Top Grossing charts at a more rapid pace since the 2015 launch of YouTube Red, YouTube's paid service that provides users with ad-free videos, music, and exclusive content. YouTube Red is priced at $9.99 per month.

Sensor Tower says YouTube grossed approximately $14 million in February of 2018, a 133 percent year-over-year increase from last year. In March, YouTube has already earned $12 million, with iOS revenue up 150 percent year-over-year.

YouTube's App Store revenue does not include the money YouTube brings in through YouTube Music, YouTube Gaming, Google Play, rental purchases, or money. It's limited to YouTube Red and Super Chat, a feature that allow viewers to tip content creators during live streams.

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Probably helps they’re killing all the alternative apps one by one. RIP ProTube. You’re next TubeX
 
If anyone has Android, install iYPTB app from XDA and thank me later. If your device is unrooted, DL the vanced version. You'll never go back.
 
macfacts said:
Mm how is Google doing that? Apple controls the App store.
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By reminding them that apps allowing saving of offline YouTube content violates Google’s TOS.

BasicGreatGuy said:
I know some people like the YouTube t.v. platform etc. I view regular YouTube feed sometimes, and I am fine with that. The way that YouTube and Google inject tracking and ads everywhere is rather abhorrent to me, even though I can block most of it.
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Agreed. Never forget that with Google, you’re the product.
 
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It's funny (or creepy) how Google tracks you through their services. The other day I searched on Google Maps for the phone numbers of the nearby Holiday Inn Express hotel and Crown Plaza hotel. Ever since then, my video ads (on any random video) have been for Holiday Inn Express and Crown Plaza hotels. Makes me not want to use Google products any more. It's back to Duck Duck Go.
 
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mtneer said:
Is YouTube Red going to cover the ad insertions that Google announced today? Or is that a new higher tier charge on top of YouTube Red?
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This made be curious so I looked it up and the Youtube/Google employee said exactly that is being done to “frustrate and seduce” users into subscribing, no Google this simply makes me want to go out of my way to find even more workarounds for your crummy ads. With how they bully 3rd party YT apps off the App Store I wonder how long until they start doing shady **** to prevent Android devices from being able to run similar apps. I wonder how many requests/demands they send to Apple weekly to remove the background video playback feature in iOS.
 
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now i see it said:
It's funny (or creepy) how Google tracks you through their services. The other day I searched on Google Maps for the phone numbers of the nearby Holiday Inn Express hotel and Crown Plaza hotel. Ever since then, my video ads (on any random video) have been for Holiday Inn Express and Crown Plaza hotels. Makes me not want to use Google products any more. It's back to Duck Duck Go.
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I've been using DuckDuckGo for the last 4 or 5 years.
 
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now i see it said:
It's funny (or creepy) how Google tracks you through their services. The other day I searched on Google Maps for the phone numbers of the nearby Holiday Inn Express hotel and Crown Plaza hotel. Ever since then, my video ads (on any random video) have been for Holiday Inn Express and Crown Plaza hotels. Makes me not want to use Google products any more. It's back to Duck Duck Go.
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It’s in safari not google for me. I search for a sim card pop freedom for my parents. Every website or forum I go that has ads shows pop freedom. It’s been going on for 3 weeks now.
 
The screenshot shown here is just the top free apps, and not top grossing. The top grossing section was removed my Apple in iOS 11. Can anyone using iOS 10 confirm this post?
 
anek007 said:
It’s in safari not google for me. I search for a sim card pop freedom for my parents. Every website or forum I go that has ads shows pop freedom. It’s been going on for 3 weeks now.
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Get Adguard
 
now if they can include a privacy respecting no tracking option with that YouTube Red maybe I consider seriously signing up.
 
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MacBH928 said:
now if they can include a privacy respecting no tracking option with that YouTube Red maybe I consider seriously signing up.
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The thought of them doing that makes me cringe but having a Google Privacy. Tier TM seems like something they’re do.
 
All Apps listed in the photo are either Facebook or Google; despite Snapchat.
 
Youtube still isn't profitable. And their profits are plummeting even further in the last year or so. Even channels that don't do any political talk (no matter the side) got punished and their revenue removed.

Too much censorship even for YouTube. Alternative is needed, but this is gonna be hard to accomplish. Video hosting costs money. A lot of money. Google can loose money for as long as they want, a regular Joe can't.

Combine all of that with googles tracking record, and their privacy policy... Well, next few years will be interesting. But some dream of youtube failing completely, but I simply can't see that happening.
 
Just as a FYI, I tried YouTube Red for a couple months a while back to check it out. For the subscription price of $13?you get instant playing ad free videos (which is very nice) along with their music subscription Google Play Music.

It was nice for the few months I tried it out, but since I'm not into music- and I've pretty much binged out on the YouTube vids I wanted to see, $13/mo seemed like a waste of money. Yeah- it's only $13. But it's $156/yr. And that didn't seem worth it. Cancelled it.
 
c0ppo said:
Youtube still isn't profitable. And their profits are plummeting even further in the last year or so. Even channels that don't do any political talk (no matter the side) got punished and their revenue removed.

Too much censorship even for YouTube. Alternative is needed, but this is gonna be hard to accomplish. Video hosting costs money. A lot of money. Google can loose money for as long as they want, a regular Joe can't.

Combine all of that with googles tracking record, and their privacy policy... Well, next few years will be interesting. But some dream of youtube failing completely, but I simply can't see that happening.
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I have no idea what you're talking about. The only time I've ever seen someone censored or been censored myself (I used to have a channel) was when copyright infringement was involved. The comments section is and always has been unrestricted too, and it's always full of nasty stuff.
 
macfacts said:
Mm how is Google doing that? Apple controls the App store.
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By blocking access to these apps for violating their TOS? Have you not even googled the ProTube debacle before commenting? Apple also threatened to take down the app as well anyway.
 
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