What Is Youtube Red? How Will It Affect You?

Well!!! Everyone who heard of YouTube Red is kind of scratching their head thinking they will now have you pay for their favorite youtube content.But that's far from the truth.Here are some FAQ's answered which clarifies all doubts regarding the new service .

What Is It?
YouTube Red is a "Better Video Experience" subscription service offered by Google which has already started on 28th October 2015 in US.It is totally optional and costs $9.99 per month.Currently it is only available in US but soon will reach your lands.
You can go to https://www.youtube.com/red and try it out for a month free of cost before buying it.
It is extended version of Google Music Play a service which lets you stream and play music videos without ads. So if you already have subscribed to Music Play you don't have to pay anything extra and will get all benefits of this service automatically.

So Why Should I Use It?
-There will be no more ads before you videos and you can save on your Internet data.
-You will be able to save videos directly without using any third party softwares or websites.So enjoy offline videos.
-You will be able to play videos in the background which you can not do now.
-Here is the most important thing, it gives you access to all exclusive content like Movies and TV shows especially created for YouTube, much like Netflix Originals.You won't be able to get access to these contents anywhere else.Here is list of contents that will be offered http://youtube-global.blogspot.in/2015/10/red-originals.html


How Does It Affect A Current Viewer/What If I Don't Subscribe It?
It does not affect you anyway.
It does not take away any free content that is available for you today and that will be available for free.
The only drawback will be, you wont get access to any YouTube Originals that will be available for subscribed viewers.But why would you bother anyway it is not available today.There is lot contents that is created for NetFlix,Amazon,Hulu etc that asks you to pay.

How Does It Affect A Content Creator/Videoblogger?
Again nothing changes here as well,Youtube does not force any content creator to charge for their contents.Their business model remains as it is.
If you are content creator you also don't need to pay anything to post your videos.

So Why This Change?
There is always been demand from viewers for more content on YouTube.
Also YouTube is trying to keep their lead to NetFlix,Hulu and Amazon.
People are tired of ads,most of them are using ad blockers.
So overall it is need of time and a way to make more money.

So Where Is Internet World Is Heading With This?
Well this does not look good,looks like soon the content will be divided into free and paid category.More content creator would want to collaborate with video sharing websites like YouTube to make more profits and we would suffer.
But this is the worst scenario lets hope that does not happen and keep enjoying free content that is available today.

Let me know what you think of this step by YouTube and post questions that you think are not answered here.

Loading YouTube Faster----get rid of Buffering!!!

Internet is the blessings to the modern generation and YouTube is an eternal part of it and eventually of our lives.We love to share,watch tons of free videos,but sometimes we get annoyed with its snail slow speed and buffering.Well you aren't alone facing this problem.
Here are the few things you could try about to improve the situation.

Also read What Is Youtube Red? How Will It Affect You?  

#1. Switch To Better Browsers

Chrome,Firefox or Opera are faster and work well with YouTube.You should do it anyway for the whole better Internet experience.So if you are still using lousy Internet Explorer better switch to one of the above mentioned.

#2. Reduce Internet Overload
Make sure some other heavy applications like online games,downloads is not using bandwidth and kill unnecessary programs and close non-useful tags and pop up adds.If you have WiFi connect PC directly using Ethernet Cable.Do not install any browser toolbar they contain spyware and malware which is threat to your security apart from slowing it down,if installed remove them immediately.
Clean the cookies and keep computer clean.Use CCleaner or Malwarebytes alike softwares.

#3. Try Watching At Lower Resolution

Many YouTube videos offers different quality versions like 240p,360p,480p,720p. If you are having slow internet connection then Try loading the 280p version to load YouTube Videos faster.Also if it buffers a lot avoid watching videos in Fullscreen.

 

#4. Blocking Certain IP Address Ranges Used By CDN

When you watch a YouTube video, you're actually watching cached video served by a CDN(Content delivery network), rather than watching the video directly from YouTube.The connection speed is different with CDNs, so that's why the videos load more slowly. You can watch the videos directly from YouTube, getting a faster loading time, by blocking the IP address ranges used by CDNs. Follow these steps:

#4.1 For Windows

• Open Command Prompt
• Copy and paste this command into the window

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netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”YouTubTweak” dir=in action=block remoteip=173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 enable=yes

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Press Enter to add the rule

• Close Command Prompt

Since this trick blocks a wide range of IP addresses, you may run into a site every once in a while that’s blocked by this trick.

• If you ever want to remove this rule type this command

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                 netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name=”YouTubTweak”

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#4.2 For Mac

• Open Terminal
• Enter this command

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                                sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 173.194.55.0/24 in

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• Press Enter 
• Insert your Admin password
• Enter this command

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                                 sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 206.111.0.0/16 in

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• Close Terminal

#4.3 For Linux

• Open Terminal
• Enter this command

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                             sudo iptables add reject src-ip 173.194.55.0/24 in

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• Press Enter
• Enter your admin password
• Enter this command

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                                sudo iptables add reject src-ip 206.111.0.0/16 in

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• Close Terminal 

#5. Update Softwares
Update your Operating System time to time.Install and update latest version of Flash.See if newer version of your browser is available update that and you will see a difference for sure.
#6. Upgrade Your Internet Plan

Your YouTube buffering speed will always be capped by your actual Internet Speed. If you have a lousy Basic Package from your ISP and your download rate is limited, you won’t be able to buffer faster than that.Do yourself a favor get yourself a better plan and enjoy YouTube.

Youtube feather Beta ? : Unfortunately that service is no longer existent.It was an experiment for faster video experience on netbooks and other slower computers which now is discontinued.So if you still read about it in other blogs thats probably because they haven't updated/aware about it.BTW here is the link if you still want to try: http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta


Hope this post helped you,please read other posts as well they are all interesting and helpful.Also comment if something does not work out.If you want some other solutions,tricks.Tips or topic to read about, just comment below.
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