Netflix, Spotify and YouTube raise the price of their subscriptions. The entertainment platform founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph was the first to increase its rates, eliminating its basic ad-free plan; This week it was the turn of the Swedish music streaming company, whose users are being informed via email or when opening the application of the new conditions.
Through a statement published on its blog, Spotify explained that its price increase will be general, will affect more than 20 countries, including Spain, and that it will apply to all plans. Depending on the subscription contracted, this increase will vary between one or three euros per month more. For its part, the increase in the YouTube subscription is two dollars more per month, although at the moment it only applies in the United States. Everything indicates that the rate increase will reach the rest of the markets in the coming months.
With more than 200 million Premium subscribers, Spotify stated in the statement that “we are proud to be the most popular audio streaming subscription service in the world, giving Premium users access to listening to music on demand and without advertising, downloads offline music and quality music streaming.”
And this readjustment of the prices of its subscription plans comes to "be able to continue innovating", according to the Swedish company. Thus, the monthly plans are configured as follows:
The YouTube Premium plan will go from $11.99 to $13.99 per month, in the absence of knowing when this increase will be applied in Spain. This plan includes viewing content without advertising, as well as playing in the background and downloading content offline from the mobile application, among other options.
"We are updating the price for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscribers in the United States to continue to provide excellent service and features," a spokesperson for the company stated. Furthermore, he added that they believed this increase reflected the value of the platform.
The YouTube Premium plan will go from $11.99 to $13.99 per month, in the absence of knowing when this increase will be applied in Spain. This plan includes viewing content without advertising, as well as playing in the background and downloading content offline from the mobile application, among other options.
Like most streaming platforms, YouTube has more than one subscription plan. Your quota is updated as follows:
