A creator imagines YouTube in 10 years: PewDiePie hitting 117 million subscribers, kids inheriting their parents' channels, and the platform finally beating traditional TV with shoppable ads. He also hopes YouTube cracks down on ad blockers and admits he wants to become famous himself.
What will YouTube look like in 10 years? 10 years from now, if these YouTubers grow at the same rate, PewDiePie will have 117 million subscribers, Smosh will have 47 million, and VanossGaming will will have 60 million subscribers in 10 years. 10 years from now, we'll walk into our kids' rooms— yes, they'll be probably 5 or 6 years old for some of us— and we'll see them watching a FaZe Clan video, and we'll say, "Back in my day, FaZe Clan used to only upload Call of Duty." And then they'll say, "What's Call of Duty?" And then we'll say, "My childhood in a nutshell." 10 years from now, not to be morbid, but some of these YouTubers will have passed away from some accident or health reasons, But it's no secret, some YouTubers are gonna die over the next 10 years. And some of these YouTubers are gonna end up passing their channels on to their kids, because I mean, that's a pretty logical thing to do. And we're gonna see these channels run by the kids of the people we watched while we were kids. 10 years from now, hopefully, we can only pray, YouTube will develop an anti-ad blocker system. YouTube money! 10 years from now, I feel like YouTube's gonna have beaten out TV. What I mean by that is I feel like a lot of TV shows are gonna switch to YouTube because you can put the same amount of ads on it on YouTube, but YouTube's just a lot more convenient. It gets you a lot more views. And just like, even from the advertiser standpoint, when I see an ad on TV for trying to sell something, I'm never gonna buy that. But when I see an ad on YouTube, if it's something I actually like, all I have to do is click on the ad and then my PayPal information's already there. I just click two buttons and and it's on my front doorstep in 3 days. I feel like in 10 years YouTube will have a lot of the common TV shows or common networks we watch on TV on its website. You know that crappy social networking site Google+? Well, 10 years from now, that's gonna have insanely ridiculous statistics. So many users, probably billions of users, and all these crazy numbers because you have to have a Google+ account to have a YouTube account, and no one uses Google+, yet there's probably over 700 million Google+ accounts last time I checked, but no one uses the website. The only reason Google+ is relative is because you need it to make a YouTube account. And 10 years from now, there's gonna be ridiculous amounts of Google+ accounts, and they're gonna think they're a successful network, but they're not. It's only popular because they bought YouTube and force you to make one to have a YouTube account. 10 years from now, I will be famous on YouTube, and you're gonna think to yourself, "I remember watching this guy back before he had 3,000 subscribers." Man, did this guy's content suck back then.
