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YouTube Premium Receives a Price Increase

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Google is raising prices for YouTube Premium. The increases take effect immediately for new subscribers and in June for existing subscribers.

General YouTube Feature Redux
In the U.S., a YouTube Premium subscription now costs $15.99 per month or $159.99 per year, up from $13.99 per month or $139.99 per year previously. If you have a Family plan, the monthly price is increasing to $26.99, up from $22.99.

The discounted student plan also increased to $8.99 per month, up from $7.99 per month.

YouTube Premium offers ad-free videos, the ability to play videos in the background without having the YouTube app visible, the ability to download videos for offline playback, ad-free access to YouTube Music, and a few other benefits.

YouTube Premium Lite also increased to $8.99 per month, up from $7.99 per month. With this plan, ads are still shown on music videos, YouTube Shorts, and when you search or browse, and ad-free access to YouTube Music is not included.

The last YouTube Premium price increase was in 2023.

Tags: YouTube, YouTube Premium

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Entilzha
5 hours ago at 08:30 am
A reminder that Brave Browser is free. Just saying.
Score: 40 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Bones402
5 hours ago at 08:30 am
The average American spends around $230 a month on subscriptions. Take a look and cancel what you can. It's a nice raise.
Score: 31 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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mikebenton
5 hours ago at 08:36 am
YouTube is getting to be like 90% synthetic content, with no ability to filter it out. Not the best value proposition.
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Tim Jobs the 2nd
5 hours ago at 08:37 am
Of all the subscriptions, this is the one I find to be most valuable. I watch a lot of YouTube content and it is unwatchable with the ads. Browsers and extensions can help on the computer, but I watch it mostly on TV. Well worth it at least to me.

I have the Lite version FYI.
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ZipZilla
5 hours ago at 08:36 am
I’ll still pay it. The value of having it on my TV and YouTube music as well is enough for me
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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WarmWinterHat
5 hours ago at 08:33 am

A reminder that Brave Browser is free. Just saying.
Doesn't work on the TV, which is where 90% of our household YouTube is watched. Still don't pay for it.

https://deadline.com/2025/02/youtube-viewership-tv-screens-exceeds-mobile-for-first-time-in-u-s-1236284781/
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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