YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 6, 2013 @12:53AM from the david-after-dentist-fee dept.

jfruh writes "According to an email from a Google spokesman, YouTube will be offering a $1.99/month subscription service as early as this week. This service will 'bring even more great content to YouTube for our users to enjoy and provide our creators with another vehicle to generate revenue from their content,' though there was no indication of what content will be offered through the service exactly. YouTube has offered rentals for specific videos before but this is the first time the service would go head-to-head with subscription services like Netflix."

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Ads by Teppy · 2013-05-06 01:01 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'd definitely pay $2/month to remove the damn ads. Same goes for Hulu - why don't they have this option?
1. Re:Ads by Xemu · 2013-05-06 01:43 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I'd definitely pay $2/month to remove the damn ads. Same goes for Hulu - why don't they have this option?
  It will go the same way as cable. First you pay $2/month to remove the ads. Then you pay $4,$8,$16 and then they put the ads back in as well.
  
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