{"id":859733,"date":"2025-07-03T02:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/youtube-music-showing-ads-on-now-playing-screen-for-free-users\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T02:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:12:17","slug":"youtube-music-showing-ads-on-now-playing-screen-for-free-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/youtube-music-showing-ads-on-now-playing-screen-for-free-users\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Music showing ads on Now Playing screen for free users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/03\/youtube-music-logo-2.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600\" alt=\"YouTube Music logo art\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to the advertising that plays after every few songs, YouTube Music appears to be adding ads to the Now Playing screen. <\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t pay for YouTube Music, ads will appear between songs. The cover art is replaced by a rectangular image, with \u201cSponsored\u201d appearing in the bottom-left corner. The progress bar also turns yellow with next\/last grayed out.<\/p>\n<p>Some YouTube Music users <a href=\"https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/YoutubeMusic\/comments\/1l5br4h\/why_are_they_putting_ads_there\/\">are now<\/a> seeing banner ads in between the cover art (which shrinks) and the other Now Playing controls. There\u2019s an advertiser image, line of text, \u201cSponsored\u201d label, and URL at the left. At the right, you have dropdown and \u201cBuy now\u201d buttons. It\u2019s a pretty standard ad format for Google.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ads might be tied to the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/06\/05\/youtube-music-now-playing-thumbs-up\/\">upcoming Now Playing redesign<\/a>, which has been in testing for a few months and is not yet widely rolled out. As such, most people with the existing controls aren\u2019t seeing the ads yet.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The ad-supported YouTube Music tier includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On-demand playback for podcasts, songs, and music videos<\/li>\n<li>Access to audio-only, background play, and downloads for most podcasts<\/li>\n<li>Queuing, repeat, and unlimited skipping<\/li>\n<li>The Samples tab<\/li>\n<li>Music Tuner<\/li>\n<li>Access to fan badges, like top listener<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Premium users get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Background play for music<\/li>\n<li>Music without ads<\/li>\n<li>Audio-only music playback<\/li>\n<li>Music downloads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMMqA-Qow-c_gAg?hl=en-US&#038;gl=US&#038;ceid=US:en\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<em>Add 9to5Google to your Google News feed.<\/em>\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4jF54XN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/Banner-2-dbrand-9to5-dbrand-S25U-ghost-banner.png\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"205\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/06\/06\/youtube-music-now-playing-ads\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the advertising that plays after every few songs, YouTube Music appears to be adding ads to the Now Playing screen. If you don\u2019t pay for YouTube Music, ads will appear between songs. The cover art is replaced by a rectangular image, with \u201cSponsored\u201d appearing in the bottom-left corner. The progress bar also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442,49,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-859733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"category-youtube","9":"category-youtube-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}