Streaming-music service SoundCloud launched cheaper, $5 subscriptions Tuesday, giving people the option of paying less for most of the same features of its $10 option but without the full music catalog. The company, often called the “YouTube of audio,” first launched an all-you-can-eat music service last year for $10 a month. That transformed SoundCloud into …

Now playing: Watch this: YouTube TV is Google’s new live TV streaming service 1:17 YouTube is going live. Google’s massive video site will launch live TV networks with a virtual cable service in the next few months, competing with cable, satellite and online pay-TV providers like Dish’s Sling TV, Sony’s PlayStation Vue and AT&T’s DirecTV Now. “The younger generation wants …

Comcast is ushering YouTube onto the boob tube. The two companies said Monday that later this year Comcast will incorporate Google’s massive video service onto X1, the cable company’s high-tech pay-TV service, used by about half of its customers. The new partnership means YouTube’s clips and streams will be available and searchable on Comcast X1 like a regular channel or …

YouTube, the biggest video site on the planet, deals a lot in big numbers, so its latest milestone is no exception. Thursday, the Google-owned video service said it has automatically captioned 1 billion videos. Captions, subtitles on clips that transcribe dialogue and note other audio clues occurring on screen, are a technology that makes videos more accessible for those with …

Chance the Rapper beats everybody at selling music without literally selling his music. The Chicago hip-hop artist on Sunday night won three major Grammy awards, including best new artist and best rap album (beating out megastars Drake and Kanye West in the latter category). But if your instinct was to check out his “Coloring Book” on iTunes, you hit a …

Now playing: Watch this: Rhett & Link battle for artistic supremacy — in VR 4:56 For their most ambitious online video yet, YouTubers Rhett and Link went back to their roots. The pair, Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, rose to prominence with their daily YouTube variety show “Good Mythical Morning,” in which they challenge each other to eat strange foods …

Netflix is breathing more life into “The OA,” its trippy sci-fi series that ended its first season with lingering questions. (Like, “Wait, was the whole thing a lie?”) The streaming giant said Tuesday it’s greenlighting a second installment of “The OA,” alongside announcements that the latest season of show “Orange Is The New Black” will go live June 9 and …

Snapchat is gifting US nature-documentary nerds something to lord over their UK brethren for once — some early “Planet Earth II” video nuggets that lovers across pond won’t get to see. (Just don’t set your heart on hearing Sir David Attenborough’s familiar tones so soon.) Snapchat said Monday that it will debut a companion series to the buzzed-about BBC doc …

YouTube got odd looks when it began showing up at the Sundance Film Festival five years ago. This year, nobody bats an eye. “YouTube, Netflix and others investing in digital creations [means] the output is on par with what is coming out of Hollywood,” said Jamie Byrne, director of creators for YouTube, which screened its first original movie at Sundance …

Now playing: Watch this: Introducing Jon Hamm, the hologram 1:02 I trudged through a foot of snow to peek at how mixed reality may bring us closer to the stars we adore. OK, really, I trudged through a foot of snow to hold a miniature Jon Hamm in the palm of my hand. But mixed-reality revelations were a bonus. Jon …