YouTube is engaged on new plans for its YouTube Premium subscriptions, the corporate stated in a neighborhood put up on Thursday. “We’re dedicated to bringing members extra plan choices by increasing our current gives to extra areas, whereas additionally introducing new plans and exploring methods so that you can share your advantages with pals sooner or later,” in line with a put up from a YouTube workforce member recognized as Hazel.
At present, there are solely a handful of YouTube Premium plans: Particular person for $13.99 per 30 days (or 12 months for $139.99); Household for $22.99 per 30 days; and Pupil for $7.99 per 30 days. By subscribing, you get perks like ad-free movies, the flexibility to obtain movies to look at offline, and ad-free entry to the YouTube Music library. Thursday’s put up didn’t specify what any of the brand new plans would possibly appear to be or what advantages you would possibly have the ability to share, and YouTube didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
YouTube can also be including new options for Premium subscribers, as detailed locally put up and a separate weblog put up. An AI-powered “leap forward” characteristic, which just lately launched on Android, will arrive on iOS “within the subsequent few weeks.” On Android, Premium customers will have the ability to watch YouTube Shorts in picture-in-picture mode (a characteristic that’s already obtainable on TikTok).
Premium subscribers may also have entry to a handful of experiments they’ll choose in to, together with having batches of Shorts robotically obtain to your telephone so you may watch offline, a conversational AI assistant (which the corporate is bringing again following a earlier check), and a redesigned watch web page on desktop.