More YouTube Premium plans are coming

YouTube is moving connected caller plans for its YouTube Premium subscriptions, the institution said in a assemblage station connected Thursday. “We’re committed to bringing members much program options by expanding our existing offers to much regions, portion besides introducing caller plans and exploring ways for you to stock your benefits with friends successful the future,” according to a station from a YouTube squad subordinate identified arsenic Hazel.

Currently, determination are lone a fistful of YouTube Premium plans: Individual for $13.99 per period (or 12 months for $139.99); Family for $22.99 per month; and Student for $7.99 per month. By subscribing, you get perks similar ad-free videos, the quality to download videos to ticker offline, and ad-free entree to the YouTube Music library. Thursday’s station didn’t specify what immoderate of the caller plans mightiness look similar oregon what benefits you mightiness beryllium capable to share, and YouTube didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

YouTube is besides adding caller features for Premium subscribers, arsenic elaborate successful the assemblage station and a abstracted blog post. An AI-powered “jump ahead” feature, which precocious launched connected Android, volition get connected iOS “in the adjacent fewer weeks.” On Android, Premium users volition beryllium capable to ticker YouTube Shorts successful picture-in-picture mode (a diagnostic that’s already disposable connected TikTok).

Premium subscribers volition besides person entree to a fistful of experiments they tin opt successful to, including having batches of Shorts automatically download to your telephone truthful you tin ticker offline, a conversational AI adjunct (which the institution is bringing backmost following a erstwhile test), and a redesigned ticker leafage connected desktop.