{"id":129068,"date":"2022-10-21T00:26:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/10\/21\/youtube-premium-family-plan-gets-a-big-price-hike?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2022-10-21T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:26:08","slug":"youtube-premium-family-plan-gets-a-big-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/21\/youtube-premium-family-plan-gets-a-big-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Premium Family Plan gets a big price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12\" id=\"article-hero\" aria-labelledby=\"hero-cap\" role=\"figure\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/youtube-premium-family-plan-gets-a-big-price-hike.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/youtube-premium-family-plan-gets-a-big-price-hike.jpg\" alt> <\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p> <em> AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on our site. <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-sm-12 article-lead\">Apple users who are paying for the YouTube Premium Family Plan via in-app purchase will see a substantial price hike on top of an already steep increase for the service.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>YouTube has begun informing customers that they will see a price hike on YouTube Premium family subscriptions starting November 21. The subscription will jump from $17.99 to $22.99.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>However, it seems that those who subscribe through the <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/app-store\" title=\"App Store\" data-kpt=\"1\">App Store<\/a> will be hit even harder. Instead of paying $22.99 per month, they&#8217;ll pay $29.99 per month.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>For many years, YouTube has been charging Apple customers paying with in-app purchases extra for YouTube Premium. The company is now explicitly saying that that it charges more to offset the 30% or 15% cut Apple takes from in-app purchases. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>This may be the first time that the company is clear in the subscription dialog that the service is cheaper on the website itself, though.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>YouTube was <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/10\/04\/get-ready-to-pay-to-see-4k-video-on-youtube\">testing a program<\/a> where it limited 4K video to Premium subscribers. That test has been stopped without any clarity from the service what its future intentions are regarding 4K video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on our site. Apple users who are paying for the YouTube Premium Family Plan via in-app purchase will see a substantial price hike on top of an already steep increase for the service. YouTube has begun informing customers that they will see a price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}