Tip: Watch Free (Ad-Supported) Movies on YouTube
- Paul Thurrott
- Nov 18, 2018
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YouTube has created a formal collection of Hollywood movies—including some heavy-hitters like The Terminator and the Rocky series—for free viewing.
“We saw this opportunity based on user demand, beyond just offering paid movies,” YouTube’s Rohit Dhawan told AdAge. “Can we do ad-supported movies, free to the user? It also presents a nice opportunity for advertisers.”
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Meaning that, yes, these movies are ad-supported, and you will occasionally be interrupted by short ads while viewing. But that’s still a great trade-off, assuming the ads aren’t too intrusive. And it puts YouTube in an interesting position to compete with a new crop of small, ad-supported video streaming services like Tubi.
Of course, YouTube is part of a media empire, so these free movies are interspersed with a wide variety of other content. Which, by the way, can include any paid movies or TV shows you might have acquired with Google Play Movies & TV. Or synced to that service via Movies Anywhere. (As I pointed out this past summer, this syncing lets you watch your Movies Anywhere library via YouTube.)
You can find the free movies on YouTube’s Free to watch list. There are about 100 right now, but I would imagine this could grow as more studios experiment with the offering.
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Premium Member<blockquote><em><a href="#369511">In reply to madthinus:</a></em></blockquote><p>Nor Australia. </p>
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bharris
<p>YoulTube's movie library is actually no worse than Netflix's. I love Netflix for the content that they create but if you're looking for well-known, top rated movies released in the past 10 years, YouTube is about on par with them….which is, there are not many,</p>
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Bats
<p>Not surprising. TOTALLY not surprising!!!</p><p><br></p><p>In the cord-cutting industry (U.S.), it's seems that there are a certain set of movies that streaming providers can easily get rights to for free streaming. I am looking at the image above and I see Rocky, Legally Blonde, and others that are also available via Roku Channel, Vudu, Crackle, and perhaps others. I guess Google is now part of that crowd along with the crowd that offer "Youtube Originals."</p><p><br></p><p>BTW…I love cord-cutting! To be honest, I didn't need to do it, but I did it anyway because a) it's alot cheaper b) it's portable c) it's the tech thing to do. Cord cutting is not about value or how much channels one can watch for a certain fee every month, because for me, I can't watch 200-500 channels for $100-$150/month, which includes equipment rental, taxes, and other fees. Now I am paying just $35/month for Youtube TV for 40-50 channels, all of which contain the few must-have channels I need. Then you factor in the costs for Netflix ($7.00/month), Hulu $6/month, and Amazon Prime Video, in addition…Crackle, Vudu, Pluto TV, Tubi, etc….what more would I need? In the end, I am still saving lots of money. Not just that, but so are my parents who are in my family sharing plan. In other words, their TV content……is free! Youtube TV is great and (for me) very reliable. Combine that with Philo, and you have everything for $51-$56/month. ….which includes HGTV.</p><p><br></p><p>Also, this is why I stick with Android over that dumb fruit of a phone. With the iPhone you can't take these channels outside the United States. Earlier this summer, I had to go to Singapore for business. My colleague had an iPhone and me, the Pixel 2 XL. Only with Android can you do "fix" your phone in order to stream my Youtube TV (NY) channels on the other side of the world. The iPhone people can't. Another reason why Android is far superior than iOS. Far…FAR superior! I feel sorry for those people. LOL…I mock them endlessly (joke).</p><p><br></p><p>I say this, because (like I said above) Google apparently went out to get the rights for those movies. I guess that cord cutting is the future and want to get in on this. Good for them….good for us.</p>
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