After YouTube confirmed work on a subscription service earlier this year, we now have further details of their plans.
The company sent out a mass email to content owners yesterday, again pushing them to agree to new license terms and imposing an October 22nd deadline. If content creators fail to agree to the new terms by this date then their “videos will no longer be available for public display or monetization in the United States”. This has led to speculation that the October 22nd will see the launch of YouTube’s subscription service.
The subscription package is said to include an updated Music Key service, which launched in beta last year, along with a, yet to be announced, new ad-free service which would allow viewers to watch any videos on YouTube ad-free.
The company sent out a mass email to content owners yesterday, again pushing them to agree to new license terms and imposing an October 22nd deadline. If content creators fail to agree to the new terms by this date then their “videos will no longer be available for public display or monetization in the United States”. This has led to speculation that the October 22nd will see the launch of YouTube’s subscription service.
The subscription package is said to include an updated Music Key service, which launched in beta last year, along with a, yet to be announced, new ad-free service which would allow viewers to watch any videos on YouTube ad-free.
