Alphabet subsidiary Google on Thursday notified subscribers of a major price increase for its YouTube TV streaming television service.
Google’s YouTube TV email:
Hi [Customer Name],
YouTube TV has always worked hard to offer you the content you love, delivered the way you want, with features that make it easy to enjoy the best of live TV.
To keep up with the rising cost of content and the investments we make in the quality of our service, we’re updating our monthly price from $72.99/month to $82.99/month starting January 13, 2025.
We don’t make these decisions lightly, and we realize this has an impact on our members. We are committed to bringing you features that are changing the way we watch live TV, like unlimited DVR storage and multiview*, and supporting YouTube TV’s breadth of content and vast on-demand library of movies and shows.
The price of your YouTube TV Base Plan membership will change in your first billing cycle on or after January 13, 2025, and will be charged to your payment method on file going forward. To view your current plan, go to Settings > Membership for updated information. If you are currently on a trial or promotional price for the Base Plan, that promotion is still honored and unchanged.
We hope YouTube TV continues to be your service of choice, but we understand that some of our members may want to cancel their subscriptions. As always, family managers have the ability to pause or cancel anytime. You can find more information in our Help Center.
With lots of exciting shows and live events ahead in the new year, we’ll continue to strive to deliver the best of TV, all in one place. Thank you for being a loyal YouTube TV member.
Sincerely,
The YouTube TV team* Device and content restrictions apply.
MacDailyNews Take: Ugh. After Sony’s superior PlayStation Vue (a horribly named service; it was an app like YouTube TV that ran on Apple TV, among other devices) went the way of the dodo back on January 30, 2020, we were forced to find a new streaming service (or go back to cable – gack) and YouTube TV was the only one at that time that offered a comparable service. Now it costs almost as much as cable!
We haven’t looked lately, but it might be time to shop around and see what other services are out there and at what price. If you subscribe to a streaming service in the U.S. not named YouTube TV that you like, let us know below!
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True to form Google is raising prices again, 12% this time to following the 15% raise last year, it’s all about rewarding shareholders. Unfortunately there is no one service that offers all of the networks we enjoy and by the time we subscribe to those services we are paying far more than cable ever cost.
OR you can stop wasting your precious time on earth being an audience so shareholders can become wealthy at the expense of your time watching mindless content.
Time (and money) spent you will never get back.
Valid point however I have spent a lot of time being bedridden this year and at least it keeps my mind active.
Read a book.
😀 I have read dozens thank you 🙏
Sundar is getting desperate
I’m just happy with their Holiday Commercial. So fitting to the Season. Google is such a fine co.
Happy with my minimal Sling TV subscription. I don’t need a lot and it offers enough.
Big tech company greed at its best.
Screw the working class and fill the pockets of millionaires and the rich.
Had and will never paid for YouTube subscription!
We switched to Hulu Live, which also includes Lifetime which makes the wife happy.
We dropped everything but Max and up the Hulu service to Hulu Live TV, Disney+ and ESPN+ (no commercials) of course they hiked the price $10 right after we subscribed. These 2, while not cheep, give all movies, shows and sports we like. AND!, Max is the only channel in our super-lame sports media covered world (unless your name is Prime-Time) that covers Pro Cycling. Road and Cyclocross.