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YouTube Celebrates 80 Million Premium Subscribers

Tim November 9, 2022 26

YouTube announced this week that as of this September, there are 80 million YouTube Premium and YouTube Music subscribers, including those currently on trials. That's a 30 million subscriber jump from last year's 50M figure. YouTube details that thanks to its...

YouTube Intros Primetime Channels, Launches With Paramount+, STARZ, and Plenty More

Tim November 1, 2022 3

YouTube is bringing paid channels (aka services) directly to its platform starting this week and is calling it Primetime Channels. With this, instead of going from app to app for all of your content, the hope is that you can stay on YouTube and catch all of...

YouTube Gets a New Look and Bunch of New Features

Kellen October 24, 2022 4

YouTube is having a day. The popular video streaming service is getting several new features in addition to a new look while you are watching videos that adds a really cool effect. Google announced the improvements in a blog post today, saying that YouTube's...

YouTube Premium Family Plans to See Price Increase, Including Legacy Plans

Kellen October 20, 2022 53

Google announced a price increase for YouTube Premium family plans today, bringing the starting price for a family up to $22.99 per month. In addition to raising the price for new customers, this new pricing will affect those on cheaper legacy prices too. In...

YouTube Handles are Here to Make Finding Channels Easier

Kellen October 10, 2022 3

YouTube introduced handles today as an easier way to find people and the channels you most like to watch. These new handles will make it easier to engage with those creators as well, across the platform. Think of a YouTube handle like you would an Instagram or...

Eye Roll: YouTube Tests Putting 4K Videos Behind Paywall

Tim October 4, 2022 50

YouTube is apparently in experimental mode, and sadly for users, none of their experiments and/or testing seems to benefit those who use the ad-supported (free) version of the service. The last time we talked about this, it was 10+ unskippable ads before a...

Noticing More Ads on YouTube Lately?

Tim September 16, 2022 84

Making the rounds on social media and reddit this month are users who are complaining about the number of ads on YouTube's ad-supported tier (aka free YouTube). Sadly, we're not talking about a single ad before a video plays or the occasional ad during a video...

YouTube Shorts Soon Coming to Bigger Screens

Tim August 23, 2022 6

YouTube Shorts, something I've tried to be openly opposed to, are headed to Smart TVs. According to a recent report, the non-castable videos will finally make their way to larger screens, opening up the possibility for many, many more views. The latest daily...