If you are an avid YouTube user, you will surely know of its paid subscription plans namely YouTube Premium. Moreover, there is another subscription plan for its Music counterpart, namely, YouTube Music Premium. In a recent development, both of these have now annual plans to let users pay upfront for a 12-month non-recurring subscription. It also currently features a rather notable discount compared to paying every month, but that ends very soon.
To understand this better, YouTube Premium allows users to watch videos without ads. Whereas, YouTube Music Premium allows users to listen to music without ads. Both the subscriptions previously came on a monthly and quarterly subscription basis. This is until recently when YouTube launched the annual subscription plan in India. Let us look at the details of these subscription plans:
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Annual Plans for YouTube Premium and Music Premium
| Annually (Discounted) | Monthly | |
| YouTube Premium | Rs. 1,159 | Rs. 129 |
| Music Premium | Rs. 889 | Rs. 99 |
Meanwhile, the normal annual prices for YouTube Premium and Music Premium is yet to be revealed. But interested buyers can get the annual plan with a discount till January 23, 2022. Although this does not mean that the monthly plans are getting dismissed. Worry not, the monthly plans are still active for users to purchase.
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Normally, YouTube Premium is available at Rs. 129 ($11.99 in the US) a month and Music Premium at Rs. 99 ($9.99 in the US) a month. Right now, a support page is live with the annual plans currently available in India, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, and the US.
You can access this Premium Annual Plan with these steps:
- Opening the YouTube or YouTube Music app/website
- Tap your profile photo > Get YouTube Premium
- Tap Save money on annual, family or student plan
- Choose the Get Annual Plan, then follow the steps to complete your purchase
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On the other hand, existing monthly subscribers can switch by cancelling their existing membership and then signing up for annual.
Sushmita Choubey
Marketer to the core, a writer from the soul. Engineer and an MBA turned budding tech writer - dabbling her hands in all genres of writing from tech to fiction. If not writing, you will always find me reading anything and everything. Otherwise, you will find me learning new languages.