Youtube considering an ad-free paid subscription service soon.

[Desmond]

YouTube is moving ahead with its plan to offered a paid subscription service that would allow viewers to skip the pre-roll ads, YouTube senior vice president Susan Wojcicki said last night.

The option is "near term," Wojcicki said during Monday's Code Mobile conference in California, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"There are going to be cases where people are going to say, 'I don't want to see ads,'" according to Wojcicki, who took over as YouTube's top exec in February.

Last year, YouTube launched paid channels as part of a new pilot program that gave content creators a new way to earn revenue from their videos. That expanded in October, but as the Journal pointed out, there is currently no option for YouTube users to subscribe to a premium service that eliminates all ads.

YouTube hasn't nailed down exactly what its paid option will look like. "We're thinking about how to give users options," she said.

There have also been reports of a YouTube Music Key service that would offer audio-only playback and offline access, as well as Google Play Music All Access, for $9.99 a month—similar to offerings from Spotify, Slacker, and Rdio.

The music-based function is still under development, but Wojcicki remains "optimistic about seeing it soon," the Journal said.

YouTube did not immediately respond to PCMag's request for comment.

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Source : YouTube Expects Paid Subscription Service Soon | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

 

[$hadow]

Use adblock for this.

 

[flyingcow]

Yeah..why would someone pay for this instead of using a free software... Unless it has more features.. Or the user is uninformed about adblock

 

[Desmond]

Their point is that they will introduce paid channels as well.

 

[Rain_moris]

This google is going to buy the whole world with adds

 

[Minion]

No Thanks Google you are going greedy day by day. Most of the content in Youtube are fake just search for Hollywood movies half of result will be fake.Almost each and everything comes with ad network(ADMOB) that is hosted by google even they haven't spared their stock apps.

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Their point is that they will introduce paid channels as well.

Internet is not cheap in India so nothing good for us.

 

[Desmond]

No Thanks Google you are going greedy day by day. Most of the content in Youtube are fake just search for Hollywood movies half of result will be fake.Almost each and everything comes with ad network(ADMOB) that is hosted by google even they haven't spared their stock apps.

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Internet is not cheap in India so nothing good for us.

Why would you want to search Hollywood movies on Youtube?