 Today, YouTube officially announces support for 360-degree video, as well as considers an ad-free subscription service, and why is everyone so obsessed with a Meerkat? Hello, and welcome to YouTube News for March 18th, 2015. I'm your host, Alex, and I'll be walking you through some of the most important and interesting topics revolving around the YouTube platform. First up, YouTube has officially launched their support for the 360-degree videos. The YouTube creator blog has listed some examples of how you could use this new feature. You can let viewers see the stage and crowd of your concert, the sky and ground as your wingsuit glide, or you could even have your Choose Your Own Adventure video where people see different stories, depending on where they look. If you click the I button in the corner of this video, that is called a card annotation, which also rolled out to all YouTubers today. You're helpful for if you want to include informative content in your videos, so click that to see the 360-degree video playlist. Next up, YouTube is thinking about launching a subscription service for original content. I've brought this idea up in previous videos, but with these new rumors floating around, it looks like they're going to be offering this feature to videos that YouTube produces itself. It's also possible that these videos will be released to everybody at once. Even if you're not paying the subscription, it's just that paying subscribers wouldn't actually see any advertisements along with the content. Do you think this is a type of paid subscription service that's a good idea? Let us have a discussion in the comments section down below. Lastly, I had to bring up Meerkat because that's all anybody in the online video world seems to be talking about these days, because of South by Southwest. Meerkat is an app that allows users to live stream straight from their smartphone to all of their Twitter followers. It seems to be the easiest way to live stream instantly to any of your fans or followers, and all comments come in through Twitter replies. It would also be cool to see something this easy to live stream with brought to YouTube, but for now, I don't believe they have any plans to do such a thing. Do you think this dedicated live streaming app for YouTube would be beneficial? Tell us in the comments section below as well. And that's it for me this week guys, thanks for tuning in, and tune in again next Wednesday for the latest in YouTube news. The team have been announced with more than over 47 billion views, 164 million subscribers, and 1,600 videos uploaded in the past six months.