We’ve known YouTube is working on a subscription service that will allow users to pay a monthly fee to ditch all the ads, but the company has never explicitly laid out a date for said service. Now, thanks to a…
PornHub Is Trying to Get You to Pay for Porn
Pornhub, the internet’s most-popular site for free porn videos, wants you to pay for porn. Not any old porn, mind you. Premium porn. The company has just launched Pornhub Premium, a $9.99-per-month subscription service that gives you access to over…
Hulu May Let You Go Ad-Free for a Price
One of life’s great annoyances (Why do I pay for Hulu but still have to sit through ads?) may be about to get mitigated. Kind of. Hulu is reportedly thinking about offering ad-free streaming – but there’s a catch. Netflix…
Trying Apple Music? Don’t Forget to Turn Off Auto-Renewal
Apple just launched its streaming music competitor, Apple Music, and I’m sure you’re at least thinking about trying it out. Apple is offering up a free three-month trial, which is a pretty sweet deal. Who wouldn’t want to have access…
Google Play Music Now Has a Free, Ad-Supported Radio Tier
To some people Google Play Music, Google’s subscription music streaming service, may have gotten lost in a sea of other offerings. But now, just a week before Apple launches its new music streaming platform, Google is reminding you about its…
Apple Music May Force Spotify to Cut Family Plan Prices
How will Apple Music fare in an already crowded field of streaming music providers? That’s yet to be seen. But it appears that its introduction is already affecting the market. Spotify, the biggest hurdle Apple Music will have to jump…
Your Spotify Free Ride May Be Coming to an End, Claims Report
File this under interesting, but unconfirmed, reports. Earlier this month, reports said that Apple was doing its damnedest to kill Spotify’s free tier. Apple, of course, is planning on relaunching is Beats Music-based streaming competitor this summer (likely at its…
Spotify Launches ‘Tweet the Beat’ Ads, Even for Premium Users
If you pay $10 a month for Spotify premium, one of the major reasons you do that is to avoid ads. But Spotify’s new in-app ads, which act more like suggestions for you to tweet out an ad on Spotify’s…
YouTube’s Ad-Free Subscription Offering Is on the Horizon
Apart from Justin Bieber videos and comment trolls, ads are the most annoying thing about YouTube. But most of us have come to accept that we’re going to have to watch five, 15, or god forbid 30 seconds of an…
Nickelodeon Is Working on a Subscription Streaming Service
Spongebob is coming to a streaming device near you. Nickelodeon will soon unveil its own subscription streaming service, according to the network’s parent company Viacom. Variety has the details, which so far are pretty sparse: More details about the service…