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Posted on Mar 26, 2018 Updated on May 21, 2021, 8:36 pm CDT

YouTube Cherry-red is dead! Long alive YouTube Premium!

On May 17, 2018, Google appear an overhaul and rebranding of YouTube Reddish as YouTube Premium. The new service offers all of the same benefits as YouTube Red—ad-free YouTube and access to YouTube's original series and movies—but also includes YouTube Music Premium, Google's new streaming music service.

Confused even so? Here are our complete guides to YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium. Beneath, we've updated our original guide to YouTube Crimson so that yous tin understand what's changing.

What is YouTube Red?

In April 2014, YouTube announced it would begin funding original content, and eventually, YouTubers similar Joey Graceffa and Smoth got involved. YouTube's idea came at the aforementioned time Facebook was pushing hard into creating video content, forth with digital video startup company Vessel and streaming services similar Hulu and Netflix. The showtime incarnation was known as Music Key (that was focused more than on advert-free music videos) earlier settling on YouTube Red as a subscription service that would focus more on content creators.

The idea, as noted by the Verge, was to pair the stars who had already congenital followings on YouTube with professional person production talent, all of which would be "backed past a generous helping of Google's coin." YouTube Ruddy launched in October 2015, and as Variety reported at the fourth dimension, YouTube would pay 55 percent of the subscription revenue to the content creators to brand up for their lost advertising revenue.

While YouTube Red grants access to YouTube's original productions, its principal perk is the ability to watch YouTube without ads. Ever. With YouTube Red, your days of

The service was replaced in May 2018 past YouTube Premium.

What is YouTube Premium?

YouTube Premium is the new and improved version of YouTube Red. If you already had a YouTube Reddish subscription, you'll automatically enroll in YouTube Premium. It's basically the same service with 1 notable exception: It includes YouTube Music Premium, which is Google's alternative to Spotify and Apple Music. It offers a massive catalog of music you can stream on-demand and besides includes YouTube'due south deep vault of sectional content in the form of concert footage, covers, and music videos.

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YouTube Red vs YouTube Premium cost

YouTube Cerise toll $9.99 per month. YouTube Premium will cost $xi.99 per month. But that extra $two a month includes YouTube Music Premium, which is a $ten a calendar month value. If you were subscribing to both YouTube Ruby-red and Spotify Premium, you could potentially salvage money by just sticking with YouTube Premium and savour almost all of the same perks.

Information technology's not clear yet what'due south going to happen to YouTube Red's family plan, which immune yous to pay $14.99 per calendar month and include up to six family members (aged 13 and older) in the same household (comparable to Spotify Premium for Family.) We've reached out for comment and will update when we hear back.

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YouTube Premium original movies

If you're looking for original YouTube content, there is plenty to parse through on YouTube Ruddy.

There are comedies galore, including Me and My Grandma, starring YouTuber MyLifeAsEva and Rhea Pearlman and a sci-fi movie starring infamous YouTuber Logan Paul. Plus, reality movies with Katy Perry is a documentary on Gigi Gorgeous, and there is a new dramedy starring Anna Akana.

If you love YouTube stars and you desire to see them star in reality and/or scripted shows, YouTube Red is a must-have.

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Is YouTube Premium worth it?

It depends how much fourth dimension you spend on YouTube. If yous subscribe to a number of your favorite channels and mind to plenty of music, the answer is yep. Consider this: Let's say you watch 10 YouTube videos per twenty-four hours and every i of them has one of those six-2d pre-video ads that y'all tin can't skip. That's a infinitesimal of your mean solar day that you're watching something you probably don't want to watch.

Multiply that by 30 days, and y'all're looking at ads for a one-half-60 minutes every month. In turn, y'all're watching six hours of YouTube ads every yr. And if yous get stuck with a 15-second non-skippable advertizing, you're having to spend even more than fourth dimension on YouTube non watching YouTube content. Add that time saving to the fact you can exit the app on your phone and continue to listen to your favorite music—forth with the original series—and all of sudden, $12 per month is a pretty minor price to pay to swallow so much content—especially now that YouTube Premium includes a streaming music service.

Editor's note: This article has been updated in low-cal of Google's rebranding of YouTube Cherry as YouTube Premium.

*Kickoff Published: Mar 26, 2018, 6:00 am CDT

Josh Katzowitz

Josh Katzowitz is a staff writer at the Daily Dot specializing in YouTube and battle. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Periodical, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. A longtime sports author, he'southward covered the NFL for CBSSports.com and boxing for Forbes. His work has been noted twice in the Best American Sports Writing book serial.