News & Reviews:   YouTube Premium

New Update - YouTube has confirmed it's an experiment. The spokesperson said "We’re running a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium. Ad blocker detection is not new, and other publishers regularly ask viewers to disable ad blockers." 

Back in May, it was reported that YouTube was experimenting with blocking Ad Blockers on its platform. We haven't really heard anything since then until today when Redditor Reddit_n_Me got a new message regarding AdBlock on his YouTube. 

Back in October 2021, YouTube Premium prices went up for a few countries but Malaysia wasn't one of them until this week. From now onwards, the YouTube Premium for Family is now RM33.90 per month.

If you are a YouTube Premium member, you're in luck because YouTube is going to introduce an enhanced 1080p video. However, it seems that it will only benefit iPhone and iPad users.

YouTube is currently testing a new higher-quality 1080p option that is currently available for a small group of YouTube Premium subscribers. The new video quality option is called ‘1080p premium’ which has an enhanced bitrate which provides more information per pixel.

YouTube is currently testing a new video queuing feature on its Android and iOS apps which is similar to the one found on the web version of the platform. With this feature, users can “Add to queue” any video that they want to watch next, a functionality that users have always asked for.

Bad news for YouTube Premium family plan users - the monthly fee just got a price increase. Good news - the Malaysian market isn't affected by it but we can't help to think it's only temporary.

Previously, we reported that YouTube was testing out locking videos in 4K resolution only for Premium subscribers, which understandably caused a lot of backlash from the community. Now, YouTube confirmed that the test has ended, though it is still unclear whether the company would be implementing such a restriction in the future.

As many YouTube users continue to dodge YouTube Premium, Google seems to give them more reasons to do so. This is not confirmed yet, but some users have been experiencing a new test pilot that restricts 4K video resolution for YouTube Premium users only. 

Zoom in on YouTube videos will soon not be a complicated process anymore. The platform has introduced a feature called 'Pinch to zoom' for its Premium users, which allows you to zoom into the videos and pan around to look at different parts of them, both in portrait or full-screen landscape view.

YouTube announced a few new features to its app and web version today including Most replayed, Video Chapters on Smart TVs and gaming consoles, Single Loop and quick action buttons while in full screen mode. Besides that, a new experimental feature will also come out soon, whereby YouTube will help to skip to the exact moment in a video that users want to watch.