The service provides ad-free access to content across the service, as well as access to premium YouTube Originals programming produced in collaboration with the site's creators, downloading videos and background playback videos on mobile devices, and access to the YouTube Music music streaming service.
YouTube Premium Content
YouTube Premium offers original films and series produced in collaboration with professional studios and YouTube personalities, under the banner YouTube Originals. For multi-episode series, the first episode of a YouTube Originals series is available for free. In selected countries where the service is not yet available, individual episodes can also be purchased through YouTube or Google TV. Access to YouTube Originals has also been included in YouTube's separate streaming television service YouTube TV, but a YouTube Premium subscription is still required for the service's other benefits.
In November 2018, it was reported that YouTube was planning to offer some of its premia shows available for free on an ad-supported basis by 2020. The Premium subscription would still cover ad-free access, timed exclusivity windows for original content, and content that is not made freely available.
YouTube Premium Features
A YouTube Premium subscription allows users to watch videos on YouTube without advertisements across the website and its mobile apps, including the dedicated YouTube Music, YouTube Gaming, and YouTube Kids apps. Through the apps, users can also save videos to their device for offline viewing which means when the user is offline then he can watch the video which was saved. This feature also provides audio background, and in picture-in-picture mode on Android Oreo and newer. YouTube Premium also offers original content that is exclusive to subscribers, which is created and published by YouTuber's largest creators. The services also offer ad-free music streaming for YouTube Music.
YouTube Premium Plan & Pricing
The price of YouTube Premium also changed from US$99.99 to US$11.99 per month for new subscribers. The existing pricing, as well as bundling of YouTube Premium with Google Play Music.
YouTube Premium Summary
Formerly | Music Key, YouTube Red |
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Type | Subscription service |
Industry | Internet |
Founded | November 14, 2014; 7 years ago |
Headquarters | 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, California, US. |
Area served | 102 countries |
Owner | Alphabet, Inc |
Members | 50 million |
Partner | |
Website | Youtube.com/premium |