Google kills YouTube Originals, its original video content group - Ars Technica
Variety reports that Google's original video content group, YouTube Originals, is dead.The YouTube division was founded six years ago to make exclusive, original content for the pay-per-month YouTube Premium service.
An update on YouTube Originals: pic.twitter.com/PixhgZ2yhU.YouTube Originals was a swipe at Netflix, which, in 2016, was turning heads with award-winning shows like House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black.
Back then, the $12-per-month YouTube Premium started life as "YouTube Red," and its offerings were called YouTube Red Originals.
By the end of 2018, reports surfaced that YouTube was shifting focus and that YouTube Originals would be ad-supported, just like normal YouTube videos.