What is YouTube Premium?
Since its launch in 2005, YouTube has emerged as the world's largest video library. YouTube is now not only a medium of entertainment, but has become a very important platform in all fields of education, business, employment etc. YouTubeing is gaining recognition as a separate career for freelancers, many creators are now making money by making videos on YouTube. It can be said that YouTube has become a very important part of our digital life.
YouTube has remained a free service since its inception. However, if you want to YouTube, you can get some additional benefits by paying monthly or yearly charges. In our country, many people do not know about this premium service of YouTube. But if you have a card for international payment, then you can buy and use this service easily. We will know more about YouTube Premium and its additional benefits in this post.
What is YouTube Premium?
YouTube lets you watch their videos for free. However, YouTube gives them this free service by adding ads between watching videos to earn money. YouTube also launched their premium service from 2014. YouTube's premium service works like any other subscription service. You can enjoy this service for a monthly or annual charge for your account. Along with this service, YouTube also provides some additional features that you will not get using free YouTube. For example: If you use YouTube Premium, you won't see any ads while watching videos. YouTube premium service is for those who want to enjoy the mentioned benefits.
How much does YouTube Premium cost?
Like all other subscriptions, you can take this service of YouTube through an online card or other wallet. YouTube currently offers four types of subscription plans. These are:
- Individual Monthly
- Individual Annual
- Family Monthly
- Student Monthly
Individual monthly plan is for one user only. All devices can enjoy premium service for 30 days for $11.99. You will be charged after 30 days. Individual annual plan is an annual plan for one person. With this you can enjoy full 12 months of premium service on all devices for $119.99.
Family Monthly is a family plan. This plan is designed so that all members of your family can enjoy premium services together on all their devices. Apart from you, you can add 5 more family members here. You will pay $22.99 per month for this plan.
Student plan is for students only. Of course Google will verify it through ID. Students can use this plan at a very low cost per month. This plan costs $6.99 per month for students.
Benefits of YouTube Premium
By using YouTube Premium, you can enjoy several additional benefits that will simplify and enrich your YouTube experience. You will not get these benefits in normal account.
Watch videos without ads
If you watch YouTube regularly, you should have experience with ads on YouTube. However, YouTube pays YouTubers through this ad revenue. If you buy a premium plan, you can watch YouTube without ads on PC, mobile, TV or wherever you watch YouTube by logging into your account.
However, you will see different branding and ads from content creators within the video as they are part of the video. YouTubers earn through it. So they have to accept this for free content. However, the ads that are given from YouTube; Be it video ads or banners, they won't come.
Video download
One of the benefits of premium YouTube is that you can download videos and keep them within the YouTube app for offline viewing. You can download your favorite songs within the YouTube Music app. The songs you listen to will be automatically downloaded through the smart download feature. If you have YouTube premium, you will get it in the app. But you can also get some benefits of free YouTube account.
Background play
If you've used the YouTube app on your smartphone, you know that turning off the screen in normal free YouTube stops the video. As a result, it is not possible to listen to music through YouTube like a normal app. Only plays YouTube videos when the display is on. But you can play all videos or music in background if you want. For that you will need YouTube Premium. With this you can use YouTube as a medium to easily stream and enjoy your songs. You can listen to any video as audio only with the screen locked. This is a handy feature that is only available through YouTube Premium.
YouTube Music Premium
YouTube Music Premium is another YouTube service through which you can easily listen to music. Like Spotify, it is also a music streaming app with separate subscriptions. But you will get free subscription to this app with YouTube Premium. From this app you will get some additional features to easily listen to music. For example, this app will let you listen to music without loading videos in audio-only mode. This will reduce your data and phone charge usage. It also provides the facility to download music. With YouTube premium, this app will give you great benefits in listening to music.
Continuous watching
You suddenly stop watching a video while doing something. Later, if you want to watch the video again, you have to drag it back to the previous position from the beginning of the video. However, with a premium subscription, you can resume watching any video if you stop midway through it. So you don't have to struggle to remember where you left off in the video. This feature is available for free through the browser, but if you want to get this feature from the mobile app, you will need a premium subscription.
Watch videos on demand with listening control feature
A special feature of YouTube Premium is Listening Control. With this feature, you can play a video quickly, move to the next video easily or drag the video as you wish. This facility is only provided by YouTube as a premium feature. This feature is only available for smartphones and tablets for now. YouTube does not provide this facility on PC yet.
Picture in Picture (Pip)
Picture in Picture is a very useful feature that is present in various player apps. With this feature, the video frame is shortened, allowing you to easily work from one position on the display. Hence it is very useful for those who do multitasking. To get this feature in the YouTube app on smartphones, YouTube Premium is required. However, even if this feature is available in different phones, YouTube Premium will be required to get this feature in music videos or other videos as well.
Other Benefits
YouTube Premium also provides several additional benefits. Such as live chat facilities to get support services, integration with smart devices, watching videos together through Google Meet, getting new features first, etc. In addition to these various services, various other services may be added to YouTube Premium in the future.
