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Here are the original shows Google hopes will make people pay for YouTube

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Last year, Google launched a new subscription service called YouTube Red.

The $9.99-a-month service offers a bunch of features, like offline video viewing and free access to Google's music streaming service, but the two biggest draws are that it's ad free and that subscribers get access to exclusive content. 

Now, the company is finally giving us more details about what that exclusive content will be. 

On February 10, YouTube Red will premiere its first four "Originals": two shows and two feature-length movies. 

Critically, each one will feature people who are already YouTube famous. 

YouTube's younger audience is obsessed with the platform's home-grown stars, and appealing to their desire to  see everything the creators' produce has seemed to be one of Red's biggest strategies for getting people to cough up the $10 a month. 

Right now, we have no idea how well that plan is working though. 

In Alphabet's blockbuster earnings earlier this week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai called the roll-out of Red "successful" but declined to be any more specific. 

 Here's what we know about the first four original programs and movies:

"A Trip to Unicorn Island"

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YouTube description: "From the team at Astronauts Wanted, this feature-length movie gives fans an extraordinary look inside the life and journey of Lilly Singh as she embarks on a challenging 26-city global tour where she has to remember to practice what she preaches: happiness is the only thing worth fighting for."

"Dance Camp"

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YouTube description: "This feature film from AwesomenessTV weaves an amazing story of unlikely friendships, unleashing passions and discovering yourself all through the power of dance."

"Lazer Team"

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YouTube description: "In this feature-length action-comedy from Rooster Teeth and Fullscreen Films, four small-town losers stumble upon an alien ship carrying a mysterious cargo, leading to a battle to save Earth from an all-powerful enemy."

"Scare PewDiePie"

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YouTube description: "In this reality-adventure series from the creator and executive producers of The Walking Dead at Skybound Entertainment and Maker Studios, experience thrills, chills and laughter as PewDiePie encounters terrifying situations inspired by his favorite video games."

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Jillian was most recently an enterprise technology editor based in San Francisco.  She started at Insider as an intern on the technology desk in 2013 and rose to a senior reporter position, covering Alphabet, Facebook, and ecommerce. After three years at the site, she left to spend time freelance writing abroad, before taking reporting positions at CNBC and then at Forbes, where she covered Alphabet, Silicon Valley culture, and artificial intelligence. She returned to Insider in March 2020 and worked on the enterprise technology desk until August 2021.  Jillian graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in magazine journalism and information management and technology.