YouTube Premium is the subscription plan of the most popular YouTube video streaming app. The video streaming service, owned by Google, offers many features with a premium membership that aim to improve the user’s browsing experience. Most importantly, it doesn’t show you any ads while watching a video.
To get YouTube Premium, the user must pay a subscription fee, which in India starts at Rs 129 per month. However, several apps offer YouTube Premium redemption codes for free memberships. If you have a YouTube Premium code and want to redeem it, here’s how you can do it. But before that, let’s learn more about YouTube Premium and its benefits.
What is YouTube Premium?
YouTube Premium membership is a paid subscription service that YouTube offers to subscribers in exchange for various benefits. It offers features such as ad-free operation, background playback support, the ability to download videos and watch them offline, YouTube Music membership, and more.
YouTube Premium subscription is available in three plans: 1 month, 3 months and 12 months. Below is a pricing table for the YouTube Premium subscription plan.
Validity |
Price |
1 month | $1.79 |
3 months | $5.16 |
12 months | $16.65 |
How to redeem a YouTube premium code?
If you have a YouTube Premium code or gift card and want to redeem it, here’s how to do it in the browser.
- Sign in to your Google account in a browser.
- Open this link: https://www.youtube.com/redeem
- Enter the code in the “Enter code”field and click “Next”.
- Click the “Get YouTube Premium”button and select the plan you want to purchase.
- Select Google Pay as your payment method and click Buy.
- Your code will be redeemed and your YouTube Premium account will be activated.
Benefits of YouTube Premium
YouTube Premium comes with a lot of features. After subscribing, you can take advantage of the features listed below.
Video without ads
One of the main features of YouTube Premium is that you don’t have to deal with annoying ads that you see every time before or during a video. It will remove any type of ads from videos on any device you log into your account on. However, promotions embedded by creators will be visible in the video.
Background playback
YouTube Premium lets you play YouTube videos in the background even when you turn off your screen. In addition, you can also use the picture-in-picture mode, which will convert your video to a small screen so that you can use other applications while watching the video.
Download video
YouTube Premium allows you to download videos in high quality and watch them in the app. You can download an individual video or an entire playlist for offline viewing. This is useful when you are traveling or in an off-grid area and want to watch a video.
YouTube Music Premium
The best thing about YouTube Premium is that you get access to millions of songs on YouTube Music. With YouTube Music, you can play any song without encountering ads, download it, use background playback, and enable only audio mode.
YouTube Originals
YouTube makes short films with a selection of popular creators, which it calls “YouTube Originals”. With YouTube Premium, you get access to these YouTube originals at no extra cost.