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YouTube Starts Enforcing Premium Family Plan Rules

Tim September 2, 2025 23

For streaming accounts on various platforms, having a "family" can be a complicated mess. Yes, you can ultimately save money by having a family plan if you have multiple people using the same service, but then these companies set their own rules on what a...

Monday Question: Do You Pay for YouTube Premium?

Tim August 25, 2025 130

I don't pay for Spotify anymore, since I don't feel the need to pay for something I already have, which is unlimited access to the music I want. You see, I have YouTube Music, part of my YouTube Premium subscription. I've been a YouTube Premium subscriber long...

YouTube Premium 2-Person Plan Could Lower Your Price

Kellen May 6, 2025 6

YouTube Premium already has 4 different plans in the US that touch on various price points. You can pay a price to get all of the YouTube experience, without ads and YouTube Music tacked on as a bonus, plus you could extend all of that to a family of 5 for a...

YouTube Premium Lite, $7.99/Mo for Ad-Free Video Watching

Tim March 5, 2025 16

YouTube is expanding its Premium Lite to users in the US, priced at $7.99/month. This acts as a tier below the standard YouTube Premium, currently priced at $13.99/month. With YouTube Premium Lite, subscribers can watch "most videos" ad free, but that's it....

YouTube Premium Gets 5 New Features for Subscribers to Try

Kellen January 22, 2025 6

YouTube Premium subscribers, would you like some new experimental features to play with? Google announced today that it is adding several for you to toggle on, although a couple are only for iOS users. Still, there's some good stuff here for audio nerds,...

YouTube Premium Adds a Sleep Timer

Kellen August 9, 2024 6

So many of us consume YouTube at night, often before we doze off into sweet dreams of the Pixel 9 Pro in hand. Wait...you don't...do that too? Mmmmmkay. Awkard. For those of you who do watch YouTube late at night and dream of whatever slips into your mind,...

Grandfathered YouTube Premium Subscribers Rate Increase Set for January

Tim December 8, 2023 17

Many of us around these parts are continuing to cling tightly to our $7.99/month YouTube Premium subscriptions. This price dates back to the Google Play Music and YouTube Red days, but alas, it appears our time has finally come. In an email reported to be sent...

YouTube “Playables” Arrive for Premium as Games You Can Play on YouTube

Kellen November 24, 2023 7

YouTube Premium's benefits expanded this holiday week with the addition of Playables into the app. Playables, as the name sort of suggests, are playable items/games within YouTube that are free of cost (for now) and could bring you simple entertainment on both...