YouTube’s so-called ‘Premium Lite’ tier will reportedly allow you to skip ads on videos and podcasts, but not music. YouTube on TV’s popularity shows that the mobile app would be better off emulating Netflix on mobile. Podcasts have well and truly gone mainstream, and Netflix wants to host them.

I t can be hard to keep count of all of the online subscription fees I'm paying these days; a few quid here or there for films, music, and my terrible, no good Final Fantasy XIV:

Alphabet's YouTube on Wednesday rolled out a $7.99 monthly subscription service that is ad-free for most videos, except music, to create a plan to compete more directly with offerings from Netflix and Disney.