YouTube Confirms Its Original Shows Will Be Available to Stream for Free with Ads

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YouTube is shaking up its strategy and is making some choices that seem to be great for its viewers. Last fall, YouTube came out with a statement saying that they wanted to shift focus to some unscripted content tied to established celebrities instead of going all in on original scripted shows that all the streaming services are competing with right now. They’ve now added in a press release that they will be focusing on “three types of series: music, learning and personalities.”

That’s all cool, and it will be interesting to see what comes from it, but the best news is that they’ve also confirmed that the streaming service YouTube Premium (formally known as YouTube Red) will make their original series, such as Cobra Kai, available to fans for free, with ads. That’s great news. Ads are annoying, but paying for service upon service is more annoying. And Cobra Kai is one of my absolute favorite shows right now! So I really appreciate that.

Are you happy about the original unscripted content coming to YouTube Premium? Are you stoked the scripted series are now free? Let us know in the comments.

via: Deadline

Jessica Fisher

I’m Jessica Fisher! I love being a wife and mom, and I love movies and TV. I’m a murderino, and love to travel and write. I love Disney and the beach and stand-up comedy. My favorite things to geek out on are the podcast My Favorite Murder, The Handmaid’s Tale, Mindhunter, Cobra Kai, The Wonder Years, Somebody Somewhere, Shrinking, The Big Door Prize and Severence. My favorite movies are About Time, 50/50, pretty much anything with Jason Segel and/or Paul Rudd, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Dirty Dancing, and so many others. I love the books Little Women and Harry Potter, and all types of biographies. I love writing for GeekTyrant!

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