Starting Tuesday, we're rolling out the new YouTube Music experience in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea*. It will expand more broadly in the coming weeks. We’ll also soon be launching in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
the youtube red announcement also said it was coming to canada "soon". given that they rebranded the whole service quicker than they could manage to expand to Canada, i don't have too much hope for youtube's definition of soon.
A few weeks ago I had a pre-roll ad for YouTube Red. Being in the UK I assumed this meant it was finally launching here but when I followed-up it was still the original set of countries.
I don't understand the roadblock. They already have license to show the videos, just give me them without ads!
Not only that, but as a Canadian for things like Cobra Kai I need to pay outright to view - that'd be months of subscription payments in one web series if I wanted to watch it.
Yeah, youtube red/music key has been "coming soon" to some European countries for years already (though it was initially available for play music subscribers for a few months during some limited release/pilot).
The EU is (very slowly) moving in that direction. Last year they introduced legislation so that you can travel throughout the EU with your subscriptions[0] and the next step is to change copyright rules to a country of origin principle so that if you own the broadcast rights in one EU country, you are also allowed to deliver it to other EU countries[1]
They'll likely be doing a soft deployment so that they can catch any issues as the user-base scales up. Everyone expects everything immediately these days :(
No, absolutely not the case. In Estonia for example, you are extremely lucky if you are able to actually consume services or any meaningful amount of content in services by registering your account to be in this country. Basically, it's not worth the effort of entry even to the country for large companies, so they don't.
Starting Tuesday, we're rolling out the new YouTube Music experience in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea*. It will expand more broadly in the coming weeks. We’ll also soon be launching in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.