Alright, before we actually get into what you get with YouTube’s new premium subscription service, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Yes, the name YouTube Red sounds kinda sorta like popular porn site RedTube. Get your giggles out of the way now.
Anyhow, back to business. RedTube YouTube has officially lunched in Australia and we thought it might be a good idea to actually go through what the service actually gives you for your $11.99 a month.
For starters, as the Sydney Morning Herald reports, you can get YouTube Red for an introductory price of just $9.99 and you can sign up for a free month-long trial to test it out. Basically, they’re going the Apple Music route, though YouTube’s free ‘tier’ will remain.
On the surface, YouTube Red removes all ads from YouTube content and allows you to save your favourite videos for offline playback. Some would say this alone is worth the price (then again, many wouldn’t), but there’s actually more to it.
In addition to scrapping the ads, you also get to play videos in the background of your mobile whilst you use other apps. So if you’re one of those people that get their music from YouTube, you can do it without losing the use of the rest of your phone.
YouTube Red is launching in tandem with YouTube Music, a music and audio-focused app that uses the ridiculous amount of music that exists on YouTube.
As we’ve previously mentioned, when you factor this in, YouTube is actually the most popular music streaming service in the world.
YouTube Red and YouTube Music go hand-in-hand and if you’re already a Google Play Music subscriber (though we honestly don’t know anyone who is), you’ll get YouTube Red fore free and vice versa – YouTube Red grants you a free Google Play Music account.
Surprisingly, the new app is also somewhat intuitive, a la Apple Music and Spotify. The offline mixtape curates a selection of music it thinks you might like and saves it to your device automatically. The mixtape reportedly refreshes once a day.
