YouTube plans to offer paid subscriptions to some of the content later this year, AdAge reports quoting unnamed sources. YouTube has reached out to several video producers, asking them to submit applications to create for-pay "channels,". The first such channels could be available to consumers by the second quarter for between $1 a month and $5 a month, AdAge reported. YouTube has hinted in the past that it was considering offering subscription-based paid content. YouTube boss Salar Kamangar told Reuters in June that there was strong demand among certain YouTube video producers, such as video game networks, to offer fee-based programs.