YouTube Premium
YouTube Premium (formerly Music Key and YouTube Red) is a subscription service offered by the American video platform YouTube. 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 of videos on mobile devices, and access to the music streaming service, YouTube Music.[6] It has over 100 million subscribers.
Formerly
- Music Key (2014–15)
- YouTube Red (2015–18)
Internet
November 14, 2014
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100 million (as of January 2024)
The service was originally launched on November 14, 2014, as Music Key, offering advertisement-free streaming of music videos from participating labels on YouTube and Google Play Music.[7][8][9] The service was then revised and relaunched as YouTube Red on October 31, 2015, expanding its scope to offer advertisement-free access to all YouTube videos, as opposed to just music.[10]
YouTube announced the rebranding of the service as YouTube Premium on May 17, 2018, alongside the return of a separate, YouTube Music subscription service.[11][12] Later in the year, it was reported that YouTube was planning to make some of the original content associated with the service available on an ad-supported basis.
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 and YouTube Kids apps and services. Through the apps, users can also save videos to their device for offline viewing, play their audio in the background, and in picture-in-picture mode on Android Oreo and newer.[34][8][9] YouTube Premium also offers original content that is exclusive to subscribers, which is created and published by YouTube's largest creators.[35]
