What is YouTube Premium?
'''YouTube Premium''', previously known as '''Music Key''' or '''YouTube Red''' is a premium subscription service to [[YouTube]]. It allows users to watch videos without any [[advertisement]]s and allows users to download videos to their [[mobile device]]s (but not [[PC|desktop computers]]). It costs $11 USD per month as of April 2020, with a free trial that is given new users. YouTube Premium was originally launched on November 14, 2014, as Music Key, offering advertisement-free streaming of music videos from participating labels on YouTube and [[Google Play]] Music.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Spangler|first=Todd|date=2014-11-12|title=YouTube Launches ‘Music Key’ Subscription Service with More Than 30 Million Songs|url=https://variety.com/2014/digital/news/youtube-launches-music-key-subscription-service-with-more-than-30-million-songs-1201354498/|access-date=2023-04-05|website=Variety|language=en-US}}</ref> The service was then revised and relaunched as YouTube Red on October 31, 2015, expanding its scope to offer advertisement-free access to all YouTube videos, as opposed to just music. YouTube announced the rebranding of the service as YouTube Premium on May 17, 2018, alongside the return of a separate, YouTube Music subscription service. Later in the year, it was reported that YouTube was planning to make some of the original content associated with the service available on an ad-supported basis. ==Features== A YouTube Premium subscription allows users to watch videos on YouTube without advertisements across the website and its mobile apps, including the dedicated YouTube Music, YouTube Gaming, and [[YouTube Kids]] apps and services. Through the apps, users can also save videos to their device for offline viewing, play their audio in the background, and in picture-in-picture mode on [[Android (operating system)|Android]] Oreo and newer. YouTube Premium also offers original content that is exclusive to subscribers, which is created and published by YouTube's largest creators. ==References== <references /> ==Other