{"id":338280,"date":"2020-02-11T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=338280"},"modified":"2020-02-11T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:21:39","slug":"youtube-could-offer-streaming-service-subscriptions-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/338280-youtube-could-offer-streaming-service-subscriptions-report.html","title":{"rendered":"YouTube could offer streaming service subscriptions &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/youtube-in-talks-to-follow-amazon-and-apple-into-video-subscriptions-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/a> that YouTube is considering working with subscription-based streaming services to allow users to sign up to these products through its platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Google-owned video giant is considering giving people the ability to sign up, through YouTube, for a wide range of subscription-streaming services run by entertainment companies, according to people familiar with the situation,&#8221; said the report.<\/p>\n<p>However, the sources said it was unclear which services YouTube has been discussing partnerships with.<\/p>\n<p>This would follow in the footsteps of services such as the Apple TV app and Amazon&#8217;s Prime Video Channels, which allow users to access a variety of subscription content through their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has also tried to offer video subscriptions via its Watch platform but soon gave up on the project due to a lack of interest in the offer.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">YouTube Premium<\/h3>\n<p>YouTube has taken several measures to expand its video-hosting service in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>This includes its YouTube Music service, which competes with Spotify and Deezer, as well as its YouTube Premium subscription product.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube Premium gives users access to YouTube Music, as well as advert-free viewing, video downloads, and YouTube Original content.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/338272-us-charges-chinese-hackers-for-massive-data-breach.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">US charges Chinese hackers for massive data breach<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is considering working with subscription-based streaming services to allow users to sign up to these products through YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":250007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2150,14487,50853],"class_list":["post-338280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-music","tag-youtube-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338282,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338280\/revisions\/338282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}