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YouTube Music Premium & YouTube Premium get discounted Student plans in India starting at ₹59 (~$0.85)
YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium student discounts in India help save nearly 40% on the annual subscription cost, start at ₹59
As one of the fastest surging economies in the world, India is a key market for many global tech giants including Google. Being the second most populated nation in the world, India has more than 400 million smartphones (with many users with more than one device) and the number could skyrocket past the 800-million-mark by 2022. Undeniably, that's a huge figure and cheap 4G data plans, thanks to Jio's entry, have fueled this momentum further. While the global smartphone sales are slowing down, India's demand for smartphones is rising and this tenders great opportunities. Video services, especially YouTube, remain to be one of the most sought-after offerings in India and to milk this cash cow, YouTube is going in aggressively with its premium services in India.
YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium land in India for ₹99 and ₹129 a month, Galaxy S10 owners get 4 months free
Google has finally launched YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium in India, bringing in subscription-based ad-free music and video services. Read on!
Google announced YouTube Music, YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium in May 2018, but the services were available only in selected regions at launch. Over the coming months, these were rolled out to more parts of the world, but they have been curiously absent from certain important regions like India, which otherwise has been in Google's crosshairs for other projects. Now, Google has finally announced a wider international rollout of YouTube Music and related services in India, South Africa and parts of South America.
"Disable YouTube for guests" on Google Home rolling out for some iOS users
Google Home has a new option for “Disable YouTube for guests.” The description explains how this will disable the YouTube services for unrecognized voices.
To the surprise of no one, Google Home devices have tight integration with Google services. That includes everything from Google Calendar to Google Play Music. The YouTube family of services, of course, is also included in the bunch. You can use Google Home to send videos to a Chromecast device, tune in to a specific channel on YouTube TV, and play music with YouTube Music. It looks like Google is rolling out some restrictions on who can control these services.
YouTube Music and YouTube Premium now available in Canada & 11 European countries
YouTube Music and YouTube Premium are now available in Canada and 11 new European countries. Current subscribers of Google Play Music have good news too.
YouTube Music and YouTube Premium were announced early last month. YouTube Music is a merger of YouTube Music and Google Play Music, while YouTube Premium is replacing YouTube Red. YouTube Music and YouTube Premium are now available in 17 new countries as of today. Both services are now available for everyone in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and South Korea. Not only that, but 12 new countries have been added with its launch, including Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. If you're confused about what benefits you get from subscribing to each of the individual services, you can check out the table we've made below.
Google Play Music subscribers will get both YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium
Google Play Music subscribers will get both YouTube Music and YouTube Music Premium, according to a Twitter post from the official Twitter account.
With the recently announced rebranding of YouTube Red, there was some confusion about what would happen with current subscribers to Google Play Music. The Google Play Music support team has clarified what will happen on Twitter: Google Play Music subscribers will get both YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium as well.
YouTube picture-in-picture mode rolling out to some people without YouTube Red, doesn't work in all videos
Until now, picture-in-picture mode with YouTube was restricted to only those who were paying for the monthly subscription service, YouTube Red, but we're seeing multiple people around the world report that it has begun working for them without the need to pay for YouTube Red.
With the introduction of Android 8.0 Oreo, developers were finally able to design their applications with support for picture-in-picture mode. This works great with video playing applications as it enables the user to shrink the player down to a small square which can then moved around the screen while doing something else on the phone. Until now, picture-in-picture mode with YouTube was restricted to only those who were paying for the monthly subscription service, YouTube Red, but we're seeing multiple people around the world report that it has begun working for them without the need to pay for YouTube Red.
Google is such a huge company and each service/product is run by a different team of people, so it can become difficult to keep things synced together and inline with each other. We see this quite often when application updates including new features get pushed to iOS before they arrive in the Play Store for Android. The same thing happened a couple of years ago when Google launched YouTube Music even though Google Play Music All Access was already a paid service.
You now have one more way to watch your favorite content thanks to Google. The Mountain View technology giant has just launched its own online TV subscription service, called YouTube TV. This service will join the already popular streaming TV services such as Sling TV and AT&T-owned DirectTV Now.