YouTube launches half-priced Music and Premium subscriptions for US students

Google has discounted its YouTube Music Premium as well as YouTube Premium subscription plans for full-time college students inward the United States.

The next plans are available to students amongst discounted pricing:

• YouTube Music Premium: $5 per month, downward from $10 per calendar month for regular users.


• YouTube Premium: $7 per month, downward from $12 per calendar month for regular users.

Additionally, if yous are a college pupil from the U.S. who signs upwards for YouTube Premium past times Jan 31, 2019, Google volition process yous to an fifty-fifty lower charge per unit of measurement at $6 per month.

Those prices are skillful for the entire duration of the pupil membership upwards to 4 years.

YouTube Music Premium offers ad-free music streaming through a dedicated desktop as well as mobile app. It includes the entire sometime Google Play Music catalog, addition YouTube’s exclusive mixes, covers as well as alive performances, equally good as thousands of playlists.

Other capabilities inward YouTube Music Premium include listening recommendations based on your history, what you’re doing as well as where yous are, as well as perks such equally lyric search, background listening as well as downloads for offline listening.

YouTube Premium (formerly YouTube Red) includes features such equally no advertisements across the YouTube website as well as apps, saving videos for offline playback, background play amongst picture-in-picture back upwards on Android Oreo, exclusive master copy content as well as ad-free music streaming through the YouTube Music Premium as well as Google Play Music services.

As TechCrunch reported Tuesday, this is the outset major alter to Google’s YouTube subscription services since the YouTube Music launch inward May.

From the article:

YouTube says full-time students at an accredited college or academy inward the US tin grade notice guide maintain payoff of the novel pupil pricing. Those discounts volition coil out to users inward other countries after inward the future. The service doesn’t quest an @edu email, as well as hence students tin grade notice croak along the trouble concern human relationship when they graduate.

Earlier this month, YouTube Premium as well as YouTube Music Premium expanded to vii novel countries: Chile, Colombia, Japan, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland as well as Ukraine. YouTube Premium is currently available inward 29 markets as well as YouTube Music Premium is available inward 21 markets, according to Google’s back upwards document at the fourth dimension of this writing.

Half-priced pupil plans are offered past times other services, too, similar Spotify as well as Apple Music.

Would yous guide maintain payoff of this offering if yous were a college student?

Let us know inward the comments downward below.

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