Now Indian users can save Youtube videos to view Offline

YouTube is soon going to go offline in India, allowing users to save certain videos, which is a huge step for the Google-owned service.

Caesar Sengupta, Product Management Director at Google, made the announcement during an event that took place in Gurgaon, India, where Google launched the Android One handset.

“YouTube is popular here. You watch some videos again and again. How awesome would it be if you could keep watching them again and again without having to pay for data, and take the videos with you whenever you go? Within the coming few weeks, much of YouTube will be available offline in India. This is huge, and our users will really, really like this. You can download a video once, save it to your phone, and watch it again and again,” Sengupta said during the event.

MediaNama reports that the offline YouTube will not be restricted to music videos, unlike the subscription-based YouTube Music Key, the new service that the company has been working on.

It is unclear at this point what YouTube will do to monetize the videos that are kept for offline viewing. Since there is no subscription plan to speak of, and ads cannot be run offline, it will be interesting to see what YouTube will come up with, since it obviously needs to support this new feature in one way or another.

YouTube Music Key is also on the way

A recent report indicated that the service’s name would be YouTube Music Key and would be priced at $9.99 (€7.72) per month, providing people with offline audio and video playback, as well as ad-free audio playback.

The new YouTube subscription service comes with Audio-only mode, which allows users to listen to music while handling other apps on their smartphones, for instance, something that has been impossible up until now.

There’s going to be a 30-day free trial, but those who still want to keep using it will have to pay $9.99 (€7.72) per month, putting it in the same area as the likes of Beats Music, and Spotify.

YouTube Music Key will offer access not only to catalogues of various artists, but also concert footage and remixes and other content that you won’t see on services such as the two mentioned above or others similar to them.
 
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