<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> youtube.com/premium </Td> </Tr> <P> YouTube Premium (formerly YouTube Red) is a paid streaming subscription service for YouTube in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, South Korea, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands . It provides advertising - free streaming of all videos hosted by YouTube, exclusive original content produced in collaboration with the site's major creators, as well as offline playback and background playback of videos on mobile devices . </P> <P> The service was originally launched in November 2014 as Music Key, offering only ad - free streaming of music and music videos from participating labels on YouTube and Google Play Music . The service was then revised and relaunched as YouTube Red on October 31, 2015, expanding its scope to offer ad - free access to all YouTube videos, as opposed to just music . YouTube announced the rebranding of the service as YouTube Premium on May 17, 2018, alongside the return of a separate, YouTube Music subscription service . </P> <P> The service was first unveiled in November 2014 as Music Key, serving as a collaboration between YouTube and Google Play Music, and meant to succeed the former's own subscription service . Music Key offered ad - free playback of music videos from participating labels hosted on YouTube, as well as background and offline playback of music videos on mobile devices from within the YouTube app . The service also included access to Google Play Music All Access, which provides ad - free audio streaming of a library of music . Alongside Music Key, Google also introduced tighter integration between Play Music and YouTube's apps, including the sharing of music recommendations, and access to YouTube's music videos from within the Play Music app . Music Key was not YouTube's first foray into premium content, having launched film rentals in 2010, and premium, subscription - based channels in 2013 . </P>

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