YouTube launches ad-free version for $10 a month

YouTube has announced that it will start offering a subscription under the name YouTube Red starting next week. Users will no longer see ads and the video site wants to lure customers with exclusive content from well-known YouTube channels.

With the service, YouTube wants to compete with video-on-demand services such as Netflix, according to information that Google released during its own event in the United States. Swedish YouTube star PewDiePie, among others, will make one of the series that can only be seen on YouTube Red, in which he will encounter scary situations from games in real life.

In addition to the exclusive videos, YouTube removes ads on the website and in the app for Red users. In addition, users are given the option to save videos offline to watch when there is no internet connection nearby. In addition, YouTube Music, a new music app from the video site, is included in the subscription. If you take out a subscription to one of the two services, you will receive both. A subscription costs ten dollars a month.

YouTube will start selling Red subscriptions next week, but that is only happening in the United States for now. Other countries will not follow until 2016. Whether and when users in the Benelux can purchase Red is still unknown.