{"id":440,"date":"2020-10-07T13:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T13:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synchedin.com\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:42:09","slug":"youtube-rollout-test-features-to-premium-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/licensing.routenote.com\/blog\/youtube-rollout-test-features-to-premium-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Rollout Test Features to YouTube Premium Subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google often turns to the community to test out features that they&#8217;re working on. Now they&#8217;re offering new features to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/new\">YouTube Premium<\/a> subscribers to try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/routenote-licensing-blog\/1\/2020\/10\/48ecdb7c-image-1024x396.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-441 lazyload\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/new\">experimental features<\/a> that YouTube Premium members can test include; Search for videos in Google Chrome with your voice (testing ends October 20th), watch videos on the home screen on iOS (testing ends October 20th), and finally to find personalised topic filters for three languages &#8211; Spanish, French and Portuguese &#8211;  on your YouTube dashboard (Testing ends October 27th).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is only available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/premium\">YouTube Premium<\/a> Subscribers for $11.99 a month. We&#8217;re unsure of the reasoning, but we think it might be because premium members are more inclined to test out features, or potentially to get more people to sign up to YouTube Premium to try out these features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google often turns to the community to test out features that they&#8217;re working on. Now they&#8217;re offering new features to YouTube Premium subscribers to try. The three experimental features that YouTube Premium members can test include; Search for videos in Google Chrome with your voice (testing ends October 20th), watch videos on the home screen on iOS (testing ends October 20th), and finally to find personalised topic filters for three languages &#8211; Spanish, French and Portuguese &#8211; on your YouTube dashboard (Testing ends October 27th). This is only available for YouTube Premium Subscribers for $11.99 a month. 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