For the first time in three years, YouTube is hiking the subscription prices for its YouTube Premium plans, the streaming giant said Friday.
The core YouTube Premium plan will rise by $2 per month to $15.99, with the Music and Premium Lite plans rising by $1 per month to $11.99 and $8.99 respectively. The family plan is rising by $4 per month to $26.99, but allows for up to six people in the same household to have access.
YouTube Premium gives its subscribers a number of features, but the core elements are ad-free videos, background play (so users can listen to a video podcast or music video, for example), and offline downloads. It also gives access to other features.
Premium Lite, which launched a year ago, has some of the same features, though not all videos are ad-free. YouTube Music is the company’s music subscription service, which
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