YouTube Premium price hike in India reflects ongoing efforts from the platform to enhance its services. Although it might disappoint some users, the benefits of ad-free streaming, background playback, and HD video quality continue to make it a popular choice for many.
YouTube is working on upgrading the Premium subscription, by adding new features for the users, to enable them to enjoy more services on the platform. Features like picture-in-picture, Offline Shorts, Conversational AI assistant and more.
YouTube has recently introduced a new ‘Playables’ feature which enables gaming without downloads. the move has been taken to encourage the Premium subscribers.
YouTube clarified that the platform's ad blocker detection does not target any specific browsers, and the delay in video loading has been reported across all the browser users. The issue was experienced after users with ad blockers continued to have a substandard viewing experience.
Currently, YouTube has only applied this price increase to its users in the US, and it doesn't affect YouTube users in India or globally.
YouTube tests 3 strikes policy for ad blocker users: repeated prompts to enable ads, temporary video playback disablement for persistent users. Feedback option available for mistaken flags.
YouTube has reportedly crossed 80 million Music and Premium subscribers across the world- this further includes the trial users as well. Hence, the number is 30 million subscribers more than the 50 million the video streaming platform announced in 2021.
YouTube has added a new feature of Primetime Channels which will showcase your favourite and most viewed content on the platform. Primetime Channels homepages will have shows and movies with curated trailers, behind-the-scenes footage and cast interviews.
YouTube, a Google-owned video streaming platform is said to be updating the platform and restricting the users from the access of 4K videos. It is reported that the platform might give access to only Premium subscribers. Some Reddit and Twitter users have mentioned to witness the changes on iOS.
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Google is offering a three-month free trial of YouTube Premium to students in the US, in a bid to establish a strong foothold in online content-streaming against Spotify and Netflix.
YouTube Premium is allowing subscribers to download videos in 1080p for offline viewing that is an up from 720p that was there until now.
With the YouTube student plan all eligible college students will get discounted access to music and movies that will be ad-free at Rs 59 for YouTube Music Premium and Rs 79 for YouTube Premium.
The list of new countries getting the YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium service are Colombia, Chile, Peru, Japan, Portugal, Ukraine and Switzerland.
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