YouTube is increasing its extra inexpensive, $7.99 monthly Premium Lite subscription service with new options, together with the power to obtain movies for offline entry and watch movies within the background, even when the display is off otherwise you’re utilizing different apps. These choices have been beforehand solely obtainable to clients on its full plan, which prices $13.99 monthly.
The corporate stated the additions have been the results of person suggestions, as clients in its pilot program shared that they wished these particular options to make the subscription extra engaging.
Launched final March, YouTube Premium Lite launched a extra modestly priced subscription tier that might take away adverts from “most” movies on the platform, together with these throughout well-liked verticals like gaming, trend, magnificence, cooking, information, and extra. Nevertheless, adverts would proceed to be proven on music content material and music movies. Plus, clients on the Lite plan gained’t have entry to the ad-free YouTube Music app.
With the arrival of those new options, ad-free music content material will now be the one purpose to improve to the complete Premium subscription. It’s going to additionally seemingly make the Lite tier extra engaging to clients who didn’t need to pay only for ad-free content material however wished different upgrades, as nicely.
The Lite subscription tier was first launched in Thailand, Germany, and Australia, earlier than coming to the U.S. final yr. It’s now obtainable throughout a lot of other global markets, together with Canada, Brazil, the U.Okay., India, Mexio and different components of Europe and Asia.
YouTube’s subscription enterprise has been steadily rising. Mixed with adverts, YouTube’s general income reached $60 billion in 2025, in response to info shared by guardian firm Alphabet earlier this month throughout This autumn earnings.
The corporate additionally reported that YouTube’s advert income elevated 9% to $11.38 billion within the fourth quarter. In the meantime, the “subscriptions, platforms and gadgets” group’s income elevated 17% to $13.6 billion in This autumn, which the corporate attributed to sturdy development in YouTube subscriptions, significantly YouTube Music and YouTube Premium.
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Alphabet reported greater than 125 million YouTube Music and YouTube Premium customers worldwide in March 2025. The corporate didn’t share an up to date metric throughout its This autumn earnings earlier this month, however stated that it now has greater than 325 million paid subscriptions throughout client providers, together with YouTube Premium and others, like Google One.
