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YouTube now has more than 100 million Premium subscribers


Getting people to pay for YouTube wasn’t a far-fetched idea after all.

Khalid has covered tech, surveillance policy, consumer gadgets, and online communities for more than a decade. YouTube reached an important milestone on Thursday for its paid music and video tiers, crossing the 100 million subscriber benchmark globally. YouTube also abandoned the streaming arms race and stopped making most original content in early 2022.

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