As expected, YouTube is starting an ad-free, paid tier—but the site also plans to keep some exclusive content behind a paywall.
YouTube has been toying with the idea of charging its audience to watch videos for some time now, but it was only earlier this year that a leaked memo confirmed that YouTube would allow viewers to pay to watch videos without ads. According to Re/code, which cited unnamed industry sources, YouTube will also make some content exclusively available to those paying users.
