YouTube is the most used video platform and without a doubt one of the easiest, fastest and most content-rich. It is logical to assume that Google understands the importance of YouTube for the Internet and increasingly offers more aggressive monetization systems.
While it is logical to assume that a platform of this size needs a regular income and that advertising is a fundamental part of it, YouTube is more and more adding more ads and a more sophisticated way to skip them, a way to invite users to subscribe to their premium plan.
The company is adding more and more features to its premium plan that have been available to all users so far, and it looks like the tests YouTube is running will be for its free users before and after. In this sense, everything seems to indicate that watch YouTube in 4K with a free plan is coming to an end.
Want to watch YouTube in 4K? You will have to pay for a Premium subscription
According to several users from Redditthe company is testing the possibility that one of its most used features, watching ultra-high-definition videos, will become a paid feature targeted at users who subscribe to the Premium plan, which, in addition to including additional features, does not show ads and gives direct access to music.
However, given YouTube’s insistence on its premium plan, it doesn’t seem to catch on with most users who are still used to watching videos on the service without paying a single euro.
For now, yes, the company hasn’t commented, and it appears to be a test limited to a very specific number of users. It will be a movement similar to that of other services such as Netflix, which it only allows you to view 4K content on the most expensive paid plans., leaving the cheap version in SD quality. What, by the way, many users often complain about.
If YouTube eventually adds 4K video to YouTube Premium, it might be enough to convince some users to pay for a subscription, but we fear that the majority, accustomed to a completely free version, will not want to do this.
Source: Hiper Textual
