Youtube premium family plan Subscribers of YouTube Premium are taking to social media to voice their shock and anger over an unexpected price increase of the service’s ad-free family plans. YouTube began sending emails to premium subscribers last night that the cost of family plans would jump from the current price of $17.99 per month to $22.99 per month starting on November 21. That’s an increase of 27%, which far outpaces even the relatively high inflation of the past year.
While YouTube Premium allows six accounts to be added to one subscription plan—the equivalent of two more screens than Disney and Netflix allow—subscribers still are not happy with the 27% jump in price, as evidenced by the volume of complaints on Twitter.
More bad news: If you subscribe to the YouTube Premium family plan through the Apple App Store, your cost is going up even higher—to $29.99 a month. YouTube is doing this because it needs to give a cut of monthly subscriptions to Apple if users sign up through the App Store.
if you subscribe to YouTube Premium via Apple, they’re raising their prices pretty significantly — gotta swap to paying thru their website i guess pic.twitter.com/UK2oaVWko3
— dame.eth (@damedoteth) October 20, 2022
YouTube did not give a reason for the jump in the Premium family plan price, but if there’s a silver lining here, it’s that—for now—it looks as if YouTube Premium individual plans will remain at their current $11.99 per month price.
In addition to the price rise in the United States, the YouTube Premium family plan price appears to be going up in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Australia.
