2023-09-26 13:59:21
The YouTube video service will close the ability to subscribe to Premium Lite starting October 25, 2023. A subscription costing €6.99 per month allowed you to watch videos without ads. About it reports The Verge with a link to the emails subscribers received.
Premium Lite was half the price of the main Premium subscription and did not include premium features such as background playback and downloading videos to your device for later offline playback. YouTube launched Premium Lite in 2021 in select European countries, including Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. After their subscription expires, Premium Lite users will have the option to either return to watching ad-supported videos or upgrade to a basic Premium subscription, which will be free for the first month.
YouTube previously added the ability for Premium subscribers to watch 1080p videos with increased bitrates. The service also raised the price of its Premium subscription: the monthly fee increased by $2, to $13.99, and the annual fee by $20, to $139.99. The cost of a separate music streaming service, YouTube Music, has also increased to $10.99 per month.
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