YouTube has in the present day unveiled a brand new plan known as Premium Lite. As the identify implies, that is cheaper than YouTube Premium, nevertheless it additionally comes with fewer options. To make sense of what is what, YouTube has offered the picture under.
So, whereas with Premium you get a completely ad-free expertise (nicely, apart from the sponsored segments in seemingly all movies), in addition to the power to obtain movies and background playback help, Premium Lite has none of that.
You don’t get downloads or background playback, however it is best to see “most movies ad-free” throughout classes akin to gaming, trend, magnificence, and information. In the small print, YouTube says adverts could seem on music content material, Shorts, and whenever you search or browse.
Premium Lite is $7.99 per thirty days versus Premium’s $13.99, so you’re saving $6 every month, which suggests $72 per yr. Worth it? That’s a call you will need to make your self.
Premium Lite is on the market as a “pilot” for US customers, and within the coming weeks, it is going to be an choice for all YouTube customers in Germany, Thailand, and Australia, the three nations the place it has been supplied on a restricted pilot foundation up till this level. The firm says it would proceed to broaden its Premium Lite pilots to extra nations this yr.
YouTube boasts that Premium now has over 125 million subscribers the world over, however the quantity does embrace folks at the moment participating with a trial. Lite appears to be a approach to get extra folks in, by specializing in those that do not wish to hearken to music on YouTube Music or obtain any stuff.
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