Originally Posted by
DebraK
Where on earth did you hear that? You are already paying for emails by paying for broadband.
Sending as well as receiving email uses considerable bandwidth which equals dollars. Companies that use newsletter services, Constant Contact, Mailchimp etc are paying an additional charge.
There is also a considerable cost to producing the emails, you can see which ones are more professional than others.
Facebook is now charging businesses to send updates to all the people who have liked their page.
It costs money to produce videos, I think we have been lucky to have free access to so many for so long. It also costs a lot of money to host videos, stream videos etc.
We often forget that as well as end users needing an internet connection, the video, needs to be uploaded to Youtube, stored there (storing and backing up data costs money), then there is the bandwidth to serve the video to you.
I am not surprised that people are looking to recoup some of their expenses.