YouTube to introduce paid subscription

This article provides a brief overview of YouTube's paid subscription channels, which are expected to launch in April 2013.

YouTube to introduce paid subscription

Maxine Hamilton and Eridani Baker

Background

Founded in February 2005 and bought by Google in 2006, YouTube has become the go-to site for video on the web. With approximately one hour of video uploaded every second the site is rich in content. In recent years, much of YouTube's focus was on categorizing some of that content into "channels"; YouTube is now looking to leverage that effort via a paid subscription model.

Details

YouTube paid subscription channels are planned to launch in April this year. Costs will be tiered and will likely allow users to choose...

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