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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)
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The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing by $2 to $13.99 per month in the US for new and current customers.

This price increase is live for new subscribers as seen on youtube.com/premium. Instead of $11.99, YouTube Premium now costs $13.99/month. Meanwhile, it’s $18.99 if you’re subscribing from the iOS YouTube app.

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[–] 25 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Still better than cable ever was. No long term contracts, extra fees on bills, tons of useless channels and tons of ads.

I think people forget how bad cable TV actually is if they haven't used it for a while.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The month to month contracts for streaming content will go away soon.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't see the value in complaining about things that haven't happened yet.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    The general direction that streaming services have been taking in recent times is clear, though: Raising prices, locking down account sharing, splitting up the content across too many different providers and introducing advertisement in cheaper plans. Sounds pretty cable-y to me.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    They'll probably go the way other big subscription services like MS and Adobe are. Annual commitment with monthly payments of x.99 or no commitment with monthly pricing of y + x.99

    I dislike that even more.

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