YouTube Premium 2025: Plans, Pricing & Benefits
YouTube Premium is the video platform’s paid subscription service.
This format offers several advantages compared to the Free YouTube option, which could improve your YouTube experience.
What advantages does the paid subscription bring? Is it worth activating this service? Is there a cheaper version of YouTube Premium? If you consider paying for a YouTube subscription, here you will learn everything you need to know.
YouTube Premium: Plans & Prices 2025
If you are still unsure whether to activate this subscription or not, or you have questions about the payment, the platform has several plans for you, and you can choose the one that best suits your needs.
✅ YouTube Premium Individual
YouTube Premium costs $13.99 per month in the U.S. and lets subscribers watch anything on the platform without ads, including music videos. You can also save 15% if you pay annually.
Monthly subscription: $13.99 per month
Annual subscription: $139.99 per month
✅ YouTube Premium Family
The complete YouTube pack for the family for $22.99/month. It allows you to share your subscription with up to five members of your family (aged 13+) who live in the same household. There’s also a free of charge trial for new members.
Each account will have its preferences for content, viewing, etc.
✅ YouTube Premium Student
The student version is the cheapest of the three, as it allows you to enjoy all the benefits of YouTube Premium at $7.99/month.
Of course, you need to meet certain conditions: it is only available to full-time students and enrolled at education institutions in specific countries.
This plan is valid for four years, and at the end of each course, you will have to verify with the platform that you still meet the requirements.
Unsure about subscribing? YouTube offers a one-month free trial to help you make up your mind.
Benefits of YouTube Premium 2025
If you are really thinking about getting YouTube Premium, you have to be clear about what it offers and what advantages it brings over the free version.
Here are some reasons to subscribe to YouTube Premium 2025:
⚡️ No more ads
One of the primary monetization sources for YouTube is advertising. The truth is that they can be annoying and interrupt a key moment of the video you are watching.
This is over with YouTube Premium once you log in to the device to watch the video. You won’t see ads at the beginning or in the middle of the video, nor overlays. Neither third-party banners.
⚡️ Available offline
How many times have you wanted to enjoy a video on YouTube, but you had no data, or the Internet connection was not at its best?
One of the main advantages of YouTube Premium is that you can save videos to watch whenever you want, whether or not you have an Internet connection. This option is only available for the mobile application, not for the desktop.
You should know that not all videos are available for download due to location or partner restrictions. In addition, you must be logged in with your account to download the content.
⚡️ Background play
You receive a WhatsApp or a notification that you have to answer while watching a video or listening to a song… your moment is gone…
With YouTube Premium, you have a feature called ‘Play in the background’ that allows you to continue watching YouTube videos or listening to music while using other apps on your phone.
⚡️ Long live the music
With the YouTube Premium subscription, you can enjoy Music Premium… also from the video platform YouTube.
It allows you to listen to songs without ads, download them to listen to without having an internet connection, play it in the background or set up the audio mode, an option to only listen to music without playing the video, reducing the data consumption.
⚡️ Always ‘original’
With the YouTube Premium subscription, you will access series and unreleased movies from several influential YouTubers.
Content that only users who purchase the premium version have access to.
⚡️ For kids
YouTube Kids, the platform’s version aimed at children, includes selected content for kids, parental control, and a video filter. It also has a Premium option.
If you acquire this membership, you will be able to watch these videos without connecting to the Internet and, in addition, without ads while the video is playing.
YouTube Premium 2025: New Features
Recently, YouTube announced that new features are being rolled out for YouTube Premium – and as a Premium user, you can even test them:
- High-Quality Sound: As a Premium member, you can enjoy even better sound – music videos are now played at 256 kbps, making the audio clearer and richer.
- Picture-in-Picture for YouTube Shorts on iOS: Watch your favorite Shorts while using other apps or scrolling through the news – all side by side.
- Smart Downloads for YouTube Shorts on iOS: YouTube suggests Shorts that are automatically downloaded for offline playback. Perfect for when you’re on the go.
- “Jump ahead” on the web: This feature was previously only available on mobile devices – now you can jump straight to the best part of a video on the web as well.
- Faster playback speeds on mobile: Soon, you’ll be able to adjust the playback speed even more flexibly – up to 4x faster, at your own pace.
If you upgrade to Premium, you can try out these features right away. And if you share your feedback with YouTube, you’ll even receive a gift voucher as a thank-you.
How to sign up for YouTube Premium
If you have made up your mind and want to subscribe to YouTube Premium after discovering all its advantages, how can you do it?
1. Enter the YouTube Premium page from your mobile device or PC.
2. Log in with your credentials.
3 Click “Try Free”.
4 Start the free 1-month trial or use the family or student plans
YouTube will notify you 7 days before the end of your trial period to cancel or permanently purchase the subscription.
Done! You are already registered as a YouTube Premium member.
How to cancel YouTube Premium
After subscribing to YouTube Premium, you realize that the content is not what you were looking for or don’t use it as much as you thought, here we will tell you how to cancel it.
Enter the “Paid membership” page and cancel the subscription. You can recover this premium account whenever you want.
YouTube Premium for Content Creators
Let’s see. We are missing something…
If most content creators monetize their channel through ads and with YouTube Premium, you watch ad-free videos, is your favorite creator losing money?
The answer is no. YouTube will share the subscription cost with the creators, and the more content you watch, the more money they will earn.
YouTube Premium Lite
While the platform keeps attracting paid subscriptions, it also tries other alternatives …
In this case, we are talking about the trial version of YouTube Premium, known as YouTube Premium Lite, which would reduce the subscription cost per month.
It is currently in the testing phase, and could arrive at any minute.
YouTube Ad Blockers
When it comes to Ad Blockers, YouTube Premium does not mess around. YouTube has officially launched a “global effort” to crack down on those ad blockers. These efforts are to encourage people to become premium users.
If you are using an ad blocker, you will get this notification shown below:
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