YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium come up with its annual plans to let users pay upfront for a 12-month non-recurring subscription. The new addition comes years after YouTube offered its paid subscription models on a monthly and quarterly basis.
The annual plans for both YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium are currently limited to a handful of countries including India and the US.
As an introductory offer, YouTube is initially offering discounts with the annual plans.
You can subscribe to the annual plans from their Android devices or through the Web.
YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium are now available with annual plans for individual users.
This means students and users with family members will not be able to get the annual plans for their accounts.
YouTube is running a promotional offer under which customers are offer with discounts on the annual plans until 23rd January 2022.
The offer brings the annual plan for YouTube Premium at Rs. 1,159, while the annual plan for YouTube Music Premium is available with a discounted price of Rs. 889.
Details on how much users in India will be require to pay after the promotional offer ends are yet to be revealed.
YouTube Premium is available at Rs. 129 a month and YouTube Music Premium at Rs. 99 a month.
YouTube in a support page that the annual plans are currently available in India, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, and the US.
In addition to new subscribers, users on an ongoing YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscription can move the annual plans after cancelling their existing membership and signing up as fresh.
Subscribers in India who are on a one-month or three-month prepaid plan will be shift to the annual plans once their prepaid plan expires.
Users on Android and the Web can sign up for a YouTube Premium annual plan.
YouTube has not yet provided an in-app sign-up option for iOS devices.
iPhone and iPad users who want to buy the annual subscription need to make their purchase on a computer or mobile Web browser.
YouTube has importantly not provide partial refund support to users picking the annual plans.
The payment for the plans is also on a prepaid basis and is of non-recurring nature.
The latter means that you will need to manually purchase the subscription once the original annual plan expires.
