Google has just announced its most recent innovation for its massively popular video streaming service, YouTube. Dubbed YouTube Go, the service aims to provide users with unstable internet connections to access videos by downloading them into their mobile devices. The app also includes a feature that enables local sharing without the use of cellular data.

YouTube Go will start its trial run in India, where millions of residents still live in areas that have an intermittent internet connection at best. With the Indian market in mind, Google has launched the Next Billon program, aimed at connecting even the country's most rural areas. YouTube Go is one of the pillars of the Next Billion, according to Mashable.

In a press conference in Delhi, Johanna Wright, Vice President of Product Management for the video streaming service, stated that YouTube Go is Google's way of stating that everyone, regardless of where they might be, deserves to have access to online data. Wright further stated that Google spent a lot of time in the most rural areas of India in order to fully grasp the internet problems that users face.

"We believe that no matter who you are, or where you come from, everyone should get an opportunity. You can't solve these challenges by sitting in Silicon Valley," she said.

"YouTube Go is a brand new app to help the next generation of users share and enjoy videos. YouTube Go was designed and built from the ground up with insights from India, in order to bring the power of video to mobile users in a way that is more conscious of their data and connectivity, while still being locally relevant and social," Wright added, according to The Verge.

YouTube Go will be fully available for Android users in the Indian market later this year. Users who would like to try out the service before the full rollout of the feature, however, can sign up for early access at YouTubeGo.com/signup.

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