YouTube Music and YouTube Premium have surpassed 100 million subscribers across more than 100 countries and regions. The 100 million figure includes uses who are on free trials, according to YouTube. The company didn’t break down how many are on YouTube Music versus YouTube Premium, the subscription service for ad-free viewing, there are.

Meta hat für seine Plattformen Facebook und Instagram ein kostenpflichtiges Abonnement eingeführt. Holger Bleich wirft für heise einen Blick auf das Warum, dass vor allem "Europäischer Datenschutz" heisst.

Meta is launching a paid subscription that will remove ads from Facebook and Instagram. The service is available throughout the European Union and will be offered for around €9.99 per month on the web or €12.99 / month on iOS and Android to account for additional fees for those platforms.

Der Kurznachrichtendienst X hat ein neues Abo-Modell eingeführt. Für monatlich 16 Euro sollen "Premium+"-Nutzer unter anderem keine Werbung mehr sehen.

Premium Plus is double the price of X Premium and comes with a more significant algorithmic boost, while $3 Basic subscribers get the smallest bump added to their replies.

Social media apps are testing subscriptions. They say if you’re not the customer, you’re the product. Now they are both.

Coming soon: We’re bringing Meta Verified to businesses on Instagram and Facebook. Subscriptions will include business authentication with a verified badge, proactive impersonation protection, access to account support and features to help your business stand out. Sign up for the waitlist here: meta.com/verified-business

Diese Schlagzeile schlug hohe Wellen: Meta wolle kostenpflichtige Abo-Versionen von Facebook und Instagram in Europa einführen, die dann ohne Werbung auskommen sollen, berichtete die "New York Times" kürzlich. Die Zahlungsbereitschaft in Deutschland hält sich in Grenzen, wie eine exklusive Umfrage von YouGov zeigt.

Zahlende X-Kunden können nun ihr Abonnement verbergen. Einigen ist es offenbar peinlich, wenn andere sehen, dass sie Musks Firma bezahlen.

X has warned companies that received the golden verification badge for free in the past, they could loose this in case they don't buy more than $1,000 in ads from August on

You need an account just to read tweets now, and you’ll have to pay for Twitter Blue “verified” access to see more than 600 posts per day.

Out of ~150,000 early subscribers to Twitter Blue in November, just ~68,157 were still subscribed as of April 30

Twitter ‘gifted’ the checkmark back to its top 10k most followed users and the top 10k most followed brands. Even though many of the stars have said that they don’t want it, and despite it potentially also being illegal, as the tick now represents an unapproved endorsement of a product. This way Twitter hopes to maintain a level of credibility and interest in its subscription revenue push.

Viele Prominente wollen sich von Twitter nicht beschenken lassen.

Elon Musk is handing out Twitter checkmarks for nothing, but that doesn’t mean the celebrities actually want them.

For months, the CEO has promised to de-verify anyone not subscribed to Twitter Blue, and it appears he has finally succeeded

LinkedIn’s new verification system supports CLEAR, Microsoft Entra, and work email verification for more than 4,000 companies. The platform will highlight verifications with a green and blue check on profiles, but not on other places at the platform (yet).

It was only recently that we were made aware of Meta’s paid verification system.

Pay to WinPopular dating app Tinder has confirmed that it's working on a $500-a-month subscription that's tentatively called "Tinder Vault," Fast Company reports, and we can't fathom why anybody would possibly want to shell out that much money for such a feature.