November 14, 2014; 9 years ago (November 14, 2014)
Headquarters
901 Cherry Avenue San Bruno, California, United States
Area served
120 countries
Algeria
American Samoa
Argentina
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Cayman Islands
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Finland
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kuwait
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico
Morocco
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
North Macedonia
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Réunion
Romania
Russia (suspended)
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Turks and Caicos Islands
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
U.S. Virgin Islands
Uruguay
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zimbabwe
Owner
Alphabet, Inc.
Members
100 million (as of January 2024[update])
Parent
YouTube
Website
youtube.com/premium
Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4][5]
YouTube Premium (formerly Music Key and YouTube Red) is a subscription service offered by the American video platform YouTube. The service provides ad-free access to content across the service, as well as access to premium YouTube Originals programming produced in collaboration with the site's creators, downloading videos and background playback of videos on mobile devices, and access to the music streaming service, YouTube Music.[6] It has over 100 million subscribers.
The service 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.[7][8][9] 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.[10]
YouTube announced the rebranding of the service as YouTube Premium on May 17, 2018, alongside the return of a separate, YouTube Music subscription service.[11][12] 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.
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series Murdoch Mysteries and Townes Linderman in the series Impulse on YouTubePremium. Daniel Joseph Maslany was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, son of Daniel...
top-tier Google ad platform, YouTube Red projects on hold". Polygon. Alexander, Julia (17 October 2018). "Logan Paul's YouTubePremium movie is back on, months...
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