YouTube is working on new plans for its YouTube Premium subscriptions, the company said. in a community post on Thursday“We are committed to offering members more plan options by expanding our existing offerings to more regions, while also introducing new plans and exploring ways to share their benefits with friends in the future,” according to a post from A YouTube team member identified as Hazel.
Currently, there are only a few YouTube Premium plans: Individual for $13.99 per month (or 12 months for $139.99); Family for $22.99 per month; and Student for $7.99 a month. By subscribing, you get perks like ad-free videos, the ability to download videos for offline viewing and ad-free access to the YouTube Music library. Thursday’s post didn’t specify what the new plans would look like or what benefits it might share, and YouTube didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
YouTube is also adding new features for Premium subscribers, as detailed in the community post and a separate blog post. An ai-powered “skip forward” feature, which recently launched on Android, is coming to iOS “in the coming weeks.” On Android, Premium users will be able to watch YouTube Shorts in picture-in-picture mode (a feature that is already available). Now available on TikTok).
Premium subscribers will also have access to some experiments. can choose towhich includes automatic downloading of batches of shorts to your phone so you can watch them offline, a conversational ai assistant (which the company is bringing back after an earlier test), and a redesigned display page on desktop.
