Joe Maring / Android Authority
TL; Dr
- YouTube Premium Lite affords a budget-priced paid subscription that removes most adverts from YouTube.
- Exceptions have included issues like music movies, and in some markets Google has warned that Shorts might present adverts, as nicely.
- The corporate is now sending out notices to extra subscribers warning them that adverts in Shorts will begin showing on the finish of June.
YouTube Premium is nicely value paying for, giving customers ad-free entry to perhaps the broadest library of content material in streaming historical past. However particularly in case you get your music repair from one other supplier (like paying for Spotify Premium), it doesn’t make a ton of sense to be paying full value for YouTube Premium and never making the most of its YouTube Music entry. That’s precisely why we had been so completely satisfied to see Google introduce YouTube Premium Lite, which simply focuses on eradicating (most) adverts with out worrying about any extras — and does so for a fraction of the worth.
Whereas Premium Lite removes the overwhelming majority of adverts from regular movies, we’ve identified that Google has carved out a collection of exceptions. These include “music content material, Shorts, and while you search or browse.” To date, at the least in our expertise, these have proved to be minimal, and we’ve discovered Premium Lite to supply a really cheap compromise to paying full value.
That stated, the state of affairs is now altering a bit, and never for the higher — at the least for Premium Lite subscribers in some areas. Google has not too long ago been sending out emails to Premium Lite customers in Germany, in keeping with Deskmodder (through 9to5Google). These advise subscribers that adverts in YouTube Shorts will begin showing as of June 30. We’ve additionally uncovered TWiT Group person big_D sharing the identical message (this time in English).
Curious why Google can be sending out notifications about adverts we already knew about, and questioning why these messages didn’t appear to be focused at Premium Lite customers in all nations, we reached out to Google within the hopes of getting some clarification. And it seems that there’s a easy rationalization for all of this.
It’s possible you’ll recall that once we first started listening to about Premium Lite in testing final fall, it wasn’t but obtainable within the US, as an alternative getting began in Australia, Germany, and Thailand. And it seems, as Google was nonetheless getting its plans for the service collectively, it hadn’t advised subscribers in Germany and Thailand that they’d be seeing adverts in Shorts. By the point entry expanded to the US, adverts in Shorts had been on the desk from the start, however Google is barely going again now and notifying prospects in Germany and Thailand that they’re getting them, too.
In order that’s what happening with these emails: Most Premium Lite subscribers already knew about adverts for Shorts, and now YouTube’s telling the remainder of you.
