If you are a YouTube TV subscriber you may have heard of a perk called family sharing. Family sharing is a built-in option that allows users to provide account access to up to 5 family member accounts free of charge. If you are looking to use this perk to share access to friends and family in an age of password crackdowns, be wary.
Not that YouTube is coming after users, but things don’t work as smoothly as you might hope they would if you do not read the fine print. Because while five users can be given access to the account only three different accounts can access the streams at the same time.
NFL fans might have noticed that this weekend if they were attempting what my cousin and I did Sunday. An avid fantasy sports fan, he signed up for NFL Sunday Ticket and upon finding out that such an option as family sharing existed gave a number of family members access to the account so that we could enjoy the most interesting games of the weekend during a day of blowouts. But the experience was lacking as everyone who accessed various streams received messages saying there were too many streams being used at one time.
Once we looked back at the full explanation of how the sharing worked it all made sense as to why there was a problem leaving me and others to you know, tune into NFL Sunday the same way we have our whole lives. It would not surprise me if my experience is a common one. While there have been no numbers released YouTube‘s Chief Business said that the new Sunday Ticket package is exceeding their expectations. As the numbers grow for the service the number of people who try to share the wealth will certainly increase. Just know the perils ahead of time and understand that it may be better to go small on this one if you don’t want an uneven performance.
