{"id":23,"date":"2026-04-12T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:54:08","slug":"youtube-raises-subscription-prices-in-us-for-the-first-time-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"YouTube raises subscription prices in US for the first time in 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April 10 (Reuters) &#8211; YouTube on Friday raised subscription prices in the United States, with increases of up to $4 set to \u200btake effect from the next billing cycle.<br>The Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O), opens new tab \u200cvideo platform said the standard individual YouTube Premium plan would now cost $15.99 a month, up from $13.99, while the family plan price \u200brises by $4 to $26.99 a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here.<br>YouTube Lite, a lower-cost tier \u200bthat offers ad-free viewing for most videos but \u2060excludes YouTube Music Premium and still carries ads on \u200bShorts and music content, will now cost $8.99 per month. \u200bThe standalone YouTube Music Premium subscription was also increased by $1 to $11.99 a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 10 (Reuters) &#8211; YouTube on Friday raised subscription prices in the United States, with increases of up to $4 set to \u200btake effect from the next billing cycle.The Alphabet-owned&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netgens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}