At the beginning of the year, Google introduced the Premium Lite YouTube subscription plan on some markets such as the United States, Australia, Thailand and Germany, only to then extend it to other countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain and Mexico) in May.
Starting yesterday, day characterized by the Gemini Revolution for the Smart Home, the Mountain View giant has made the “low cost” subscription plan also available to Italian users: let’s find out the cost, what it offers less than the “standard” premium plan and how to sign the subscription.
YouTube Premium Lite is available in Italy
The constant (but fortunately slow) increase in costs, has pushed the various subscription service providers to offer the most “cheap” levels of the subscription plans so as not to risk losing subscribers e margin As much as possible, perhaps also insulting the undecided users, braking from the exorth price requested.
YouTube also offers a subscription service, called YouTube Premium, which allows (among other things) to watch all the videos without advertising. Yesterday, the video streaming platform of the Mountain View giant has made the plan available to Italian users YouTube Premium Lite“Low Cost” option launched at the beginning of the year on some markets and now expanding.
How much it costs and what the new subscription plan offers
YouTube Premium Lite has a cost of 7.99 euros per month (with a month of free trial before the paid subscription), definitely less than the other three floors among which users can choose:
- Individual plan (a user) Costa 13.99 euros per month
- Student plan (only for suitable students, annual status verification) Costa 8.99 euros per month
- Family plan (up to five members of the family group, minimum age 13 years) Costa 25.99 euros per month.
Compared to Individual planthe new YouTube Premium Lite It therefore saves about 43% on the monthly fee but, as expected, offers some less advantage. Users will be able to continue watching Most videos without announcementsexcept those relating to music and shorts, but will have to give up:
- Take advantage of YouTube Music without announcements
- Download videos for offline viewing
- Reproduce the content in the background (then while we use other apps or after we block the smartphone).
In a nutshell, therefore, the new plan YouTube Premium Lite It only serves to remove advertising from YouTube videos: in the event that this was the only functionality Premium Of the streaming platform you need, the new “low cost” plan could be the right one for you. To sign it or explore the available plans, just make a tap on this link.
Speaking of changes linked to YouTube Premium, in the future the blocking of the sharing of Premium Family accounts may also be extended to Italy when the members do not really reside in the same family unit, a little at the Netflix to be clear, even if for the moment this block seems limited and not extensive on a large scale.
