SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube, the popular online video service owned by Google Inc, is planning to offer a paid, ad-free version, the head of the site said.
The move would represent a significant change for the online video website, whose free videos, often accompanied by short commercials, attract more than 1 billion users a month.
“There are going to be cases where people are going to say ‘I don’t want to see the ads or I want to have a different kind of experience’,” Susan Wojcicki, a Google senior vice president who heads the YouTube business, said at the Code/Mobile technology conference in Half Moon Bay, California late on Monday.
