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Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by IshKebab on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:04PM (#10428252)
I suppose because it's clear what you get with those names.
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Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by Someone1234 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @04:28PM (#10428434)
But it isn't clear because "YouTube Red" is meaningless.
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Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by giancarlostoro on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:44PM (#10428936)
Weren't they trying to divide YouTube from "Google" as well, this kind of doesn't help, but I would either have gone with YouTube Plus or Play Plus, seeing as others pointed out "Red" and "Tube" sounding awful together.
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Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @07:39PM (#10429613)
> Weren't they trying to divide YouTube from "Google" as well, this kind of doesn't help

It might, in the long term. The next step after expanding the services offered under Google Play Music subscription and adding a new name for it (without immediately disrupting anything) might well be retiring the old name, moving the whole audio/video streaming product area under the YouTube brand.

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Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with ... by abraham on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:02PM (#10429067)
So was "Google" until they built up brand awareness.
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