As well as targeting Netflix, which boasts more than 30m subscribers, YouTube’s premium channels will take on other online video subscription services such as Hulu and Amazon.- According to the Financial Times, the site will charge viewers $1-$5 per month to view some channels and could launch the service as soon as March.
- YouTube, which is visited by 800m people globally every month, reportedly plans to treat the premium service as an experiment and has spoken to only a handful of video-makers about the project.
