"YouTube Red" Offers Premium YouTube For $9.99 a Month, $12.99 For iOS Users (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader writes: YouTube is launching a subscription plan in the U.S. called Red that combines ad-free videos, new original series and movies. The official blog post reads in part: "On October 28, we’re giving fans exactly what they want. Introducing YouTube Red -- a new membership designed to provide you with the ultimate YouTube experience. YouTube Red lets you enjoy videos across all of YouTube without ads, while also letting you save videos to watch offline on your phone or tablet and play videos in the background, all for $9.99 a month. Your membership extends across devices and anywhere you sign into YouTube, including our recently launched Gaming app and a brand new YouTube Music app we’re announcing today that will be available soon."

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Re:Anywhere you sign into YouTube?

[ADRA]

Because clearly:
  1. Apple takes a cut of recurring revenues, so YouTube passes the cost on to the consumer
  2. YouTube thinks Apple people are sheep who will surely pay extra for the same thing everyone else pays less for
  3. All of the above

Re: Anywhere you sign into YouTube?

[ustolemyname]

It's only more of you subscribe through an iOS device, as they must use Apple's built in in-app purchase hooks (as opposed to other platforms where you can connect to a third party payment provider).

Re:HBO started like this

[bws111]

You're apparently old enough to be senile, because there never was such a time. The original cable TV (60s) was just retransmission of OTA broadcasts, including the ads. The 70s introduced premium channels like HBO. They didn't, and still dont, have ads. The 80s brought 'superstations', complete with ads, and 'cable-only' channels like MTV, which had ads from day one.