[Dylan16807]

Most companies fail. But I think something like that could work.

It's what Google Contributor should have been. Not the bizarre v1 where your money tried to outbid ads, or the pay-per-view v2 that also only supported a handful of websites.

[p_l]

Google Contributor was dead on arrival by the usual issue of launching ... too small.

It could never get a following because the initial set of providers and customers would be always too limited to gain proper usage numbers which in turn would prevent it from being expanded.

[Dylan16807]

v1 was very wide reaching but worked in a dumb way.

v2 had a pathetic reach and worked in a mediocre way.

Youtube premium does basically the right thing, so it would be nice if google talked to google about how they made it happen.

[p_l]

I recall even the initial implementation being so geographically limited that it limited it chances of actually getting anywhere.