Among the many video streaming services available right now, Google’s YouTube is one of the most used and well-known for years. The search giant offers us several modalities, some that you don’t even know about.
Here we are faced with one of the most used and visited web portals globally, which is no small thing. Whether from our desktop computers or mobile devices, many of us visit YouTube to multitask several times a day. Well, at this point we will tell you that last October 2023, Google announced that it would eliminate its subscription plan called YouTube Premium Lite.
This occurred in the countries where it was available at that time. Chances are you’ve never heard of this plan, and the main reason is that it wasn’t available everywhere. They could enjoy it in countries such as Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. To give you a better idea of ​​what we are talking about, with the YouTube Premium Lite subscription plan, users could enjoy an ad-free multimedia content viewing experience.
The main difference with other YouTube Premium plans was that Lite did not offer access to YouTube Music or the option to download videos for offline viewing. In short, it eliminated advertising but without access to the additional features of other Premium subscriptions.
But we must take into consideration that the YouTube Premium Lite plan was very necessary at that time. The reason for this is that the YouTube Premium model skyrocketed in price in several countries, in some cases up to 55% higher.
Google brings back YouTube Premium Lite
In case this subscription that we are talking about seems attractive to you, we have good news for all of you. We tell you all this because, fortunately, it is rumored that Google has started testing the YouTube Premium Lite subscription again. All after having canceled it more than a year ago in the aforementioned countries.
In fact, the search giant itself has now confirmed that this is not the old Premium Lite plan of the past. This is actually an active trial version corresponding to a new plan. Google currently states that they are testing a different version of Premium Lite for some users in the countries of Australia, Germany and Thailand.
This means that at the moment the new subscription mode is in the middle of a testing period, and it is expected that it will reach the entire world later. To give you an idea, among selected users in the German country, it has been seen that the price of this new modality known as YouTube Premium Lite, apparently costs 5.99 euros per month; or 11.99 Australian dollars.
Of course, at the moment there is still some uncertainty around the future of the YouTube Premium Lite plan as a subscription offer. It has also not been made official if the function will be extended to the rest of the regions, but it would undoubtedly be a very attractive option for many.
