YouTube premium?

[anonymous-user]

Just seen this on YouTube



There’s YT music, YouTube premium with YouTube originals, there seems to be a subscription YouTube red, in the states. Is it all the same thing?

£15 a month seems a bit steep just for no adds and some content from you tubers or are YouTube going to be streaming movies and tv series along with Netflix and amazon and the new Disney streaming empire?

[Alex]

They are planning to publish original content, like Netflix and Amazon Prime.

They have already published Cobra Kai (which is excellent!).

£15.99 a month does seem a bit steep though.

[devnull]

I like to watch youtube for a lot of the major channels - i've signed up for the 3 month trial, but £16 a month is too steep for background playback and downloadability of vids.

[sjg]

Looks like the price has already dropped - showing £11.99/month or £17.99/mo for family now.

I'm only really interested in losing the ads and getting offline play so that's closer now to what I feel that is worth.

[Smitters]

Seems steep, especially if that's personal membership. Prime has access from multiple devices, therefore people. We have two Firesticks, access from my phone and my Mrs's phone and user to access via iPad. Maybe the YT Music thing would be a big draw for some but not me, so I'll live with the ads.

I just hope that doesn't lead to a push-to-buy process where the ads are increased to persuade users to upgrade, or indeed make the ability to cast to a TV a premium perk. However, if it allows YT to up the user payments to small/medium film-makers and increase the sustainability of the minor specialist channels, then it's a good thing. Nothing can be for free, I get that, and I'm also keen of a more flexible approach to content. I prefer to deal with the admin and pay multiple small subscriptions for content I want, rather than the blanket Sky approach where I pay £££ and watch 10% of the channels because they know what people want and separate the must-haves into different packages, meaning you go without or spend many pounds and ignore all the dross. I chose go without, binned Sky last year and don't miss it at all.

[anonymous-user]

Pricing structure seems odd and I think YouTube music is a different subscription?

My kids watch loads of YouTube, they’d likely think this is great.

It’s amazing how much amazon and Netflix are spending on content. Disney look likely to be starting a streaming service along with Apple soon. There must be a point where Netflix and amazon are just too far ahead?

I suppose YouTube’s USP is that they have loads of user made content?

[Silverbullet767]

Do you have chrome? Use this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-ad...

[Shakermaker]

Don't subscribe to it through the iPhone app - Apple add on 30% or so for "in app purchases" - sign up online and its only £11.99 I believe, to save yourself a few quid. If you want to, that is

[anonymous-user]

Shakermaker said:

Don't subscribe to it through the iPhone app - Apple add on 30% or so for "in app purchases" - sign up online and its only £11.99 I believe, to save yourself a few quid. If you want to, that is

That’s a great tip and I just looked- 100% correct.

I wonder what other stuff I’ve subscribed to through iTunes apps that would have been cheaper online?

[ReaperCushions]

I've been using the US equivalent (Youtube Red) for about a year at $9.99 a month.

Personally, I love it. Worth it for no ads alone, but the original content also seems good. I'm a fan.

[Ari]

I get no ads for free - Google Chrome ad blocker.

[SCEtoAUX]

Ari said:

I get no ads for free - Google Chrome ad blocker.

Skips the ads at the intro to a video does it?

[Ari]

Seems to, yes. Can’t reme the last time I saw one. No idea how it does it, but there it is.

[fbc]

I've recently subscribed - not so much for the removal of ads and downloading, but apparently the content creators earn more from it - there's several I follow and want to support so I see this is another way I can do that (along with sponsoring channels, patreon etc).

[Stupeo]

I travel a lot so being able to download videos would be nice. Kids would love skipping adverts too.

How did you get offered a free trial? I don’t get this and I’m reluctant to pay the £11.99 until I’ve tried it.

[So]

My children's school doesn't get ads on Youtube. Is there a "schools package"?

[mattley]

So said:

My children's school doesn't get ads on Youtube. Is there a "schools package"?

Very much so, as well as a schools Google, most schools run through proxy services that filter everything. Teachers can't use online banking and stuff from the schools network as they run a man in the middle type service so even over https nothing inappropriate gets delivered.

[ReaperCushions]

mattley said:

Very much so, as well as a schools Google, most schools run through proxy services that filter everything. Teachers can't use online banking and stuff from the schools network as they run a man in the middle type service so even over https nothing inappropriate gets delivered.

My niece tells me that pretty much every student runs a VPN on their laptop / phone to get around that when on school WIFI.

Made me feel very old. I remember the height of that kind of work around at my school was making copies of the Encarta Encyclopedia CDs to take home.

[bloomen]

For the money they're asking I'd want access to vastly more movies and content than Netflix and Amazon combined, but as I don't want to watch some pinhead shouting over Minecraft I guess I'm not the core audience.

And I haven't seen an ad on YouTube for years anyway.

[Royce44]

Just me that’s sick of this “subscription bandwagon”?