YouTube coming out with subscription service – reports

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YouTube coming out with subscription service – reports
The unnamed offering from YouTube will provide a premium, ad-free user experience for a monthly fee of $10

MANILA, Philippines – YouTube is expected to roll out more than a music subscription service in the coming months. It will be providing a premium, ad-free user experience for a monthly fee. 

The subscription service announcement came from a leaked letter sent by YouTube to the site’s video creators on Bloomberg

Sources familiar with the undertaking told The Verge Wednesday, April 8, that the unnamed offering would have a monthly subscription cost of $10 .

Aside from accessing ad-free videos, users would be able to store videos offline on their mobile devices, much like Youtube’s offline playback function.

The service, sources said, would allow creators to add a paywall to their videos, restricting access to everyone except subscribers to YouTube’s new plan.

Sources also told The Verge that creators are required to join the subscription offering, else their channels will be set to private.

A Youtube spokeswoman responded via email to The Verge report, saying, “While we can’t comment on ongoing discussions, giving fans more choice to enjoy the content they love and creators more opportunity to earn revenue are always amongst our top priorities.” – Rappler.com

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Victor Barreiro Jr.

Victor Barreiro Jr is part of Rappler's Central Desk. An avid patron of role-playing games and science fiction and fantasy shows, he also yearns to do good in the world, and hopes his work with Rappler helps to increase the good that's out there.