YouTube today updated its Premium Lite subscription plan with new features, including background playback and downloads. Subscribers will be able to watch most videos without ads offline and in the background. Until now, background downloads and playback were features that were limited to the more expensive Premium plan. YouTube Premium Lite costs $7.99 per month … Read more
YouTube is expanding its more affordable $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription service with new features, including the ability to download videos for offline access and watch videos in the background even when the screen is off or you’re using other apps. These options were previously only available to customers on its full plan, which … Read more
The race to advance conversational artificial intelligence in the living room is heating up, with YouTube the latest to extend its tool to smart TVs, game consoles and streaming devices. Previously limited to mobile and the web, this experimental feature now brings conversational AI directly to the biggest screen in the home, allowing users to … Read more
After two long years of waiting, Apple Vision Pro owners can finally watch YouTube the way it was intended on a surround PC headset. Google launched its official YouTube app for visionOS on Thursday, ending one of the most conspicuous absences of apps on Apple’s $3,499 mixed reality device. YouTube is coming to Vision Pro … Read more
Starting today, the official YouTube app is available for the Apple Vision Pro, allowing you to watch videos on a cinema-sized screen with the immersive visionOS experience. Every YouTube video is available in a new, standalone visionOS app, including standard videos, 180° videos, 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts. And on the newer Apple Vision Pro … Read more
YouTube on Monday introduced cheaper YouTube TV programs that will allow subscribers to better tailor their plans to their interests in areas such as sports, news and entertainment. The company said it will offer more than 10 different plans to choose from, all for less than the $82.99 per month YouTube TV prime plan, which … Read more
Free YouTube Music accounts now have limited access to lyrics, according to several reports. Google began testing Texts as an exclusive feature for Premium users in September, but it appears it’s now getting a wider rollout. It appears that free users will be limited to viewing lyrics for five songs per month, though we’ve asked … Read more
When Ted Sarandos, the CEO of Netflix, walked into the Senate Administration Building on Tuesday, he got a curveball. What began as a standard antitrust hearing related to the Warner Bros. merger quickly degenerated into a performative Republican attack on the streaming service’s spread of “woke” ideology. At the same time, an arguably far more … Read more
Subscription and ad revenue on Alphabet-owned YouTube is growing. The company said Wednesday it now has 325 million paying users on Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million three months earlier. YouTube reported ad revenue rose 9% to $11.38 billion in the fourth quarter, but missed analysts’ average estimate of $11.84 billion. YouTube’s … Read more