YouTube’s Premium Lite gets a tad sweeter with essential features

Premium Lite subscribers can now play videos in the background and download content offline, closing a major feature gap without raising the subscription price.
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YouTube’s cheaper subscription is getting background play and downloads
YouTube’s cheaper subscription is getting background play and downloads

YouTube is adding background playback and offline downloads to YouTube Premium Lite, its $7.99-per-month subscription. With the change, you’ll be able to keep YouTube videos going while you use another app on your phone or save videos to watch when you’re offline. YouTube Premium Lite came to the US just about a year ago as […]

YouTube beefs up its $7.99/month Lite subscription with offline downloads and background play

Now the only reason to get the full Premium subscription is ad-free music and music videos.

Hank Green will gladly take billionaire money for education videos
Hank Green will gladly take billionaire money for education videos

Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the cofounder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company […]

YouTube’s latest experiment brings its conversational AI tool to TVs

YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they’re watching on the big screen.

You may stop seeing comments on YouTube if you use an ad blocker

YouTube users with ad blockers report missing comments and descriptions, sparking speculation that Google may be limiting features as part of its anti-ad-block strategy.
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The Vision Pro YouTube app is here and it fixes the biggest annoyances

YouTube finally has an official Vision Pro app, ending the Safari workaround and adding offline downloads plus support for 3D and panoramic video. It’s free now, even as Netflix still stays away.
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YouTube finally launches a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro

When Apple Vision Pro first came out two years ago, YouTube hesitated to release a dedicated app. Today is the day they officially launch one.

YouTube is coming to the Apple Vision Pro
YouTube is coming to the Apple Vision Pro

The Apple Vision Pro is finally getting an official visionOS YouTube app on Thursday. With the visionOS YouTube app, you’ll be able to watch all videos available on YouTube, including standard videos, Shorts, 3D, 360, and VR180 videos, Apple spokesperson Corey Nord tells The Verge. The Vision Pro launched more than two years ago, but […]

YouTubers aren’t relying on ad revenue anymore — here’s how some are diversifying

YouTubers are no longer just creators, and in some cases, their side businesses are growing faster than their channels.