Welcome to the unofficial reddit home of Google Play Music! Here you can discuss features of Google Play Music, report issues you're having, and help out others with support questions. What happened to Youtube Red? Yeah so my gp sub expired cos my credit card changed recently - I resubbed and noticed I had no free youtube premium. What you have to do now is sub for yt premium, and get free gpm. They did give me the old price I was paying though after complaining, cos otherwise it would've gone up to It's part of them killing gpm. Honestly not sure how. That's weird.
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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 YouTube Music music streaming service. The service was originally launched in November as Music Key , offering only advertisement-free streaming of music videos from participating labels on YouTube and Google Play Music. YouTube announced the rebranding of the service as YouTube Premium on May 17, , alongside the return of a separate, YouTube Music subscription service. The service was first unveiled in November as Music Key, serving as a collaboration between YouTube and Google Play Music , and meant to succeed the former's own subscription service. Music Key offered ad-free playback of music videos from participating labels hosted on YouTube, as well as background and offline playback of music videos on mobile devices from within the YouTube app. The service also included access to Google Play Music All Access, which provides ad-free audio streaming of a library of music. During its invite-only beta, Music Key faced mixed reception due to the limited scope of the offering; YouTube's chief business officer Robert Kyncl explained that his daughter was confused over why videos of songs from Frozen were not "music" in the scope of the service, and thus not advertisement-free.
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Subscriber Account active since. YouTube said on Tuesday that its original video programs, including sci-fi dramas and reality shows, will no longer be reserved for Premium subscribers starting in Instead, YouTube's Originals will be available on the site for free, with ads, to everyone. A YouTube spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement that the decision to move its original content outside of its subscription service was in order to expand its audience and " meet the growing demand of a more global fanbase. If you really hate ads, perhaps it's worth it for the ad-free version of the Originals.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. YouTube is gearing up to offer its prestige lineup of original series and films for free to all users, turning to its traditional ad-supported system in an attempt to bring in more viewers. The company is looking to pull back on its ad-supported programs by , limiting the number of original series and films it orders, according to The Hollywood Reporter. All of these elements led YouTube to a fork in the road: it could pursue original series more aggressively and hope for more subscribers, or it could scale back. Instead, YouTube found an alternative. The company invested hundreds of millions of dollars into expanding YouTube Premium then Red , teaming up with celebrities like Kevin Hart and Ellen DeGeneres for original series.
