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by gcb0 3557 days ago
you are right on. This is google-version of the facebook PR fiasco with free internet.

They will never sell youtube RED to that market. RED is only for the san francisco bubble, where everyone already pay $100 overall for streaming services (hulu, netflix, pandora, spotify, etc, etc).

But for those other markets, they actually still rely on eyeballs and ads. And on those markets, they have to open a few concessions to actually get the eyeballs.

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I'm not so sure this measures up to FaceBook's PR fiasco.

This is just another example of Google doing just enough in order to measure what may happen (throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks).