Google a large IT Company could start charging web users for watching full-length television programmes on YouTube, as it seeks to increase the video-sharing site’s revenue potential.
The move would see viewers charged around $1.99 to watch episodes of their favourite shows online, without any adverts, the day after they were first broadcast on TV. It would put Google in direct competition with Apple another large IT Company, which offers a similar service through its iTunes store. Let the battle of the giants commence.
YouTube has recently started streaming full-length episodes of Channel 4 shows, such The Inbetweeners, online in the UK for free. But viewers have to sit through a break in the middle of the program, as well as pre-roll adverts. And today, Five announced it had signed a deal with YouTube to stream full-length shows, including Neighbours and The Gadget Show, on the video-sharing site.
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