I signed up to a YouTube Premium free trial, and it was annoyingly brilliant but theres one setback thats keeping me from returning

Date:
Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000

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I caved to YouTube Premium's free trial and now I see what the hype is all about, but I can't get past its poor queuing system.

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After toying around with the idea and pushing it back on countless occasions, I gave into my temptations and signed up to YouTube Premiums 1-month free trial. Ive never quite understood why anyone would sign up to it, for me the price hikes and restrictions on extremely basic features havent sold me. Oh how Ive totally changed my tune. Over the course of my free trial, I used YouTube Premium more than Netflix , Disney+ , and the slew of our best streaming services combined. If anything, its as if none of them existed in the first place heres what I thought. Article continues below You may like YouTube free trial: here's everything you need to know about how to get a YouTube Premium and YouTube TV free trial YouTube Premium Lite just got
better with two new upgrades we've been waiting a year for Google rolls out unskippable ads to YouTube's TV experience to lure more Premium users Welcome back, MTV (Image credit: Future) Theres nothing quite like opening YouTube, tapping on a video, and not having to sit through a jarring ad. Until you
sign up for YouTube Premium, youll never fully understand how many ads are forced upon you per video, and going back to YouTubes free version only
proves that the number is growing. In retrospect, its one of the best parts
of the experience, and it makes the music video viewing experience even better.

Though Ive been a Spotify subscriber for over 10 years, Ive been vocal on how its music video interface is simply no match to how smooth YouTubes is. Take away the ads, and its like MTV has been resurrected. Besides, its a nice change to throw on a personalized Mix of fun music videos instead of a
Spotify playlist, especially when you have friends over. Then an idea sprung to mind; what if I created my own playlists to mimic the nostalgia of music channels?

Until I signed up to Premium, Ive never felt encouraged to make my own playlists in YouTubes free version. Even though playlist-making isnt a paywalled feature, you still have to sit through ads when watching the
videos. So with that in mind, I used my free trial wisely to experiment with playlist making, and naturally, I created one that screamed 00s music channel'.

This took some time to get used to I wont lie only because Ive been accustomed to Spotify and Apple Music s way of things but once I got the
ball rolling, I was unstoppable. What was very helpful was YouTubes playlist recommendation tools which, similar to the best music streaming services , sits at the bottom of each playlist giving you a quick and stress-free way of building your playlist with related videos. Get daily insight, inspiration
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Its safe to say that streaming music videos ad-free and building playlists
was one of my favorite parts of the experience, and even my pre-generated Mixes of familiar and suggested videos gave me just as much of a buzz. However, while returning to YouTube Premium isnt totally off the table for
me, I cant ignore its awkward queuing system. YouTube, fix your queuing
system (Image credit: Future) I admit, this is a very small setback, but if youre a chronic video queuer like me youll notice the finer details. But the wildest part is that queuing is a paywalled tool, and I dont believe Im getting my moneys worth.

There are two options for queuing videos, Play next in queue and Play last in queue. But what I had the biggest issue with is that YouTube doesnt separate your queued content from Continue Playing content like music streaming does (see Apple Music as an example). What to read next YouTube might be planning to charge users to use its playback-speed tool YouTube sparks backlash from free users by cracking down on popular hack Spotify just got a neat upgrade, but YouTube Music is paywalling a feature (Image credit: Future) Instead of grouping your queued videos in a separate list at the top like Apple Music,
it integrates them in the list of Continue Playing videos. Its a bit of a headache because you can only choose to play a video immediately, or plonk it on the very end of a lengthy list of recommendations, sandwiching your queued videos on either side.

This means you have to manually reorder the queue so that the videos you want to play next come first. Though the Play next in queue button effectively
does this, every time you select this option for a new video it overrides the previous video you chose to Play next, pushing it further down the line. Its not ideal when youve got YouTube playing at a social gathering and all your friends get vexed when the video you queued for them an hour ago has yet to
be played.

I could be reading far too deep into this, but its one of the downsides to my YouTube Premium experience that I cant shake off. However YouTube is always making changes to the Premium experience, and I hope it hasnt forgotten about its queuing systems much-needed TLC. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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