YouTube Music And YouTube Premium Officially Arrived To Indonesia

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YouTube Premium (formerly YouTube Red) is a paid streaming subscription service that provides advertising-free streaming of all videos hosted by YouTube.

More than just that, YouTube Premium also offers original content produced in collaboration with the site's creators, access to audio-only versions of videos, as well as offline playback and background playback of videos on mobile devices.

And as for YouTube Music, it's a music streaming service and mobile app that provides a tailored interface for the service oriented towards music streaming, allowing users to browse through songs and music videos on YouTube based on genres, playlists, and recommendations. The service is very similar to Spotify.

And here, YouTube is bringing these two offerings to users in Indonesia.

"Today, we're launching two of our services, YouTube Music and YouTube Premium. These two services are the extensions to the original YouTube that is powered by ads," said YouTube Group Product Manager, Brandon Bilinski in a video conference at Google Indonesia office.

To register, users need to open and login into YouTube Music, click on their profile on the top right-hand side corner on the main home feed. There, they can select the 'Get Music Premium'.

To entice people to use YouTube Music, Google offers them free subscription for the first three months.

But first, they need to enter their credit or debit card information. If they don't have these, Google offers them an alternative, where people can pay using their cell credits.

In Indonesia, Google asks for a monthly fee of Rp49,000 per month, or about $3.50.

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And as for YouTube Premium, the cost would be Rp59,000 per month, or about $4.20.

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YouTube Premium has been around since 2014, with the initial name 'Music Key'. At that time, it only offered advertisement-free streaming of music videos from participating labels on YouTube and Google Play Music.

Music Key was rebranded to YouTube Red on 31 October 2015. YouTube Red offered free access to all videos on YouTube, and not just music.

In May 2018, YouTube Red was renamed 'YouTube Premium'. At this time, it was introduced alongside the return of a separate, YouTube Music subscription service.

Besides Indonesia, YouTube Premium and YouTube Music also arrived to Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.

Published: 
06/11/2019