All You Need To Know About YouTube Premium and Its Ad-Free Access

If you are a YouTube addict, YouTube Premium is probably born for you. 

As you all know that YouTube allows users to post and watch videos for free. But with YouTube Premium, you can now watch everything without ads. And that is just a small part of various other benefits that YouTube Premium subscribers receive.

What Is YouTube Premium? 

It is a subscription-based service (previously known as YouTube Red), which provides users more features than the basic YouTube. What you get from YouTube Premium are more than just watching ad-free videos. 

What Do YouTube Premium Subscribers Get?

Background Play On Mobile App

First thing first, a great feature of YouTube Premium mobile app is the background play. You can still play your video on YouTube in the background while switching to another app (or even lock your phone).

Offline Viewing

YouTube Premium allows you to download videos (or even the whole playlists) for later offline viewing. This will surely make time pass by faster as you are on the way home or a long trip.

YouTube Originals

Another benefit is access to every content of YouTube Originals. These will include many exclusive series featuring big-name YouTubers and celebrities.

YouTube Music Premium

As a YouTube Premium subscriber, you will get full access to YouTube Music. This might be among the best parts of the Premium Membership. In addition, you can also create your own stations or explore the latest releases. If the song you are looking for hasn’t been available on YouTube Music yet, the app will help you find that song from the YouTube app and then send it to you to play it.

Location-specific Music

The next feature might be either super cool or rather scary, depending on your perspective. YouTube Music can automatically play location-specific playlists for you if you allow it to access your location data. For example, if you are at the gym, it will choose a workout playlist to play.

How To Sign Up For YouTube Premium? 

The steps are really simple, just click or tap on one of the many pop-up buttons for a YouTube Premium free trial on your computer’s browser or your mobile app.

In case you do not see any pop-up box, follow these following steps: 

Step 1: You need to sign in to your YouTube account first. Then choose Profile Photo > Paid Memberships > YouTube Premium.

Step 2: In this step, it will ask you to select your payment method (you won’t have to pay any fee until the second month). Otherwise, unless you cancel your subscription before the trial ends, it will charge you an amount of money for the second-month subscription.

How Much Does YouTube Premium Cost?

After trying a YouTube Premium subscription free for one month, it will charge you a monthly fee of Rs. 129 per month for continuing this service. 

With Rs. 149 per month, the service can be shared among up to six family members. One point to note is that to sign up for this package, the minimum age for all family members is 13 years old.