YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That’s a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.::Google has quietly increased the price of YouTube Premium by a significant $2 from $12 to $14, according to the updated signup page…
Feel like we’re watching a lot of tech companies making a lot of bad decisions all at once. Reddit, Google, Netflix, Meta, Twitter, Hulu, etc. Regardless of the individual circumstances and bad actors in each case, it feels like they’re all being fueled by a shared, low-key desperation.
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Interest rates. This bursts the bubble.
It’s unreal how many people don’t know that. It’s always fun to think about on my way to work at 5am.
Easy money pipeline has been cut off, makes sense we’re all seeing this kind of thing at the same time when you consider it from the POV of the investors bankrolling these companies.
The venture capital free money train is gone and they’re realizing their revenue models make zero sense.
If you’re just a bit tech savvy and don’t use your tv as your primary YouTube player then it’s reasonably easy to avoid ads and download stuff on YouTube no matter if you’re on Android, PC, or even iOS (yes without jailbreak).
I pay for it since I use it pretty often on my tv. I’ve gotten rid of other subscriptions to cover the cost. I use YouTube fairly often. My kid watches it on tv and I didn’t want him inundated with ads.
I feel like they forced me to pay though. I’d put on a show for my kid and 3 minutes in, there would be a 2 hour ad that played something completely different and pushed bullshit ads in front of him. I couldn’t subject him to that and there really isn’t an alternative.
Count me in on the group. Have been a family subscriber for awhile. Daughter is 7 and autistic so when an ad pops up she always installs the games then they are horrible and piss her off or she wants me to spend money on it because they force it down your throat. Easier to just give Google some money and not have to deal with it.
Revanced Manager for phones. SmartTubeNext for TVs.
For anyone reading who’s curious about iOS options, using Yattee with your Invidious or Piped instance of choice is a good way to go!
Or getting a tweaked YouTube app sideloaded.
Care to share iOS tips for the uninitiated?
You can install uyou+ (a tweaked youtube app, found on github) via sideloadly, which requires a mac or pc.
You can look it up, theres plenty of guides. If you get stuck feel free to DM me or reply here.
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Even with a TV there are options. I know Android/Google TV and LG WebOS both have apps available to sideload.
LG webOS? Please do tell what to do? I hate watching YT on my LG tv, its like two ads between each and every video…
I haven’t done it personally because I have an Android TV box connected to my LG TV with SmartTubeNext, but here’s an archived reddit post with a guide for it.
I know I am gonna be one of the few, but I use YouTube as my main viewing of things. I don’t use Netflix, or any of the other services much. Premium is something I can’t be without anymore tbh, the ad free and downloading is super convenient for me and I like how a lot of my premium subscription goes to the creators I watch the most.
I don’t have a problem with them charging for the service. But they keep raising it dramatically over and over. You’re paying $15 a month to watch content a YouTube creator is getting 25 cents to create. If they wanted to charge $9.99 a month for a family plan I’d be all about it. At the prices they’re charging there are services running full blown movie houses
Same, YouTube is the first app I go to when turning on my tv
Yup happy to pay what I pay for youtube premium and youtube music, totally worth it for both!
Maybe I could find it expensive if it was only one service
I don’t use YouTube music and don’t find the price too absurd considering the average daily watch time I have.
I must be grandfathered in. I have YouTube Music for $9.99 a month that also includes YouTube Premium
I pay Google for Google domains (shutting down, being transferred to somewhere) and YT premium and they didn’t tell me either of these things.
Wow, and I just cancelled mine yesterday, crazy timing.
How can billion dollar companies justify this bullshit, when their main source of income is advertisers anyways?
YouTube premium is their way of hedging bets against advertiser revolts they don’t want a controversy like Elsagate or Logan Paul’s forest adventures to cause their profits to tank.
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More money than brains
i guess they’ve done the least [that i’m noticeably aware of] to destroy the site recently
With the way YouTube treats creators with their demonetization policies, there’s no way I am going to pay for that.
These services won’t survive Web 3.0. Interest rates are squeezing them and their only way to pivot is making their user experience worse. It’s a double edged sword for them and the rest of Web 2.0. Change is coming.
And yet they will probably say that subscribers are up, without mentioning that most of them are from countries like India where it costs $22.50 CAD per year.
Maybe mentally I’ve already been hit with inflation, but $2 and “significant increase” do not tie out to me.
So I’ve had YouTube premium for years now, going all the way back to when it was still called YouTube red so I’ve been on the legacy $10/month plan and because I got to keep my old pricing it’s stopped me from canceling at any point when I was rebudgeting and it even stopped me from getting the cheaper $8/month student plan as I didn’t want to lose my legacy pricing once I was done with college but considering they’re hitting all subscribers and not just new subscribers I’m going to jump to that student plan to pay less each month instead.
It just doesn’t quite make sense why they’re increasing prices besides greed(or they know they can with the roll out of ad blocker blockers). If it was still during the YouTube red era they could have at least used the argument that they were re-investing in originals but they stopped creating YouTube originals. The only real new thing to YouTube premium since the rebrand from YouTube red is PIP and you can join the beta program.
This doesn’t concerned me one bit because I have Revanced Premium
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