I received an email from YouTube advising the new price for a YouTube family membership will be TRY 115.99 /month up from TRY 59.99 /month which is a 93% increase. They're trying to combat people using a vpn to get a Turkey subscription instead of paying their extortionate UK prices.
YouTube Premium Family plan price update
Hi,
Thank you for being a YouTube Premium member. We hope you and up to 5 members of your household are enjoying your YouTube Premium benefits, including ad-free and downloadable videos, background play, and uninterrupted access to over 100 million songs with the YouTube Music app.
To continue delivering great service and features, we’re increasing your price to TRY 115.99 /month. We don’t make these decisions lightly, but this update will allow us to continue to improve Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube.
You will see the change reflected on your December 30, 2023 billing date.
While we hope that you continue to be a member, you can cancel your subscription at any time here. To check the status of your account and billing information, go to your Settings > Purchases and Memberships page.
You can find more information on the latest updates in the YouTube Help Center.
Thanks for being a YouTube Premium member.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Premium team
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YouTube Premium Family plan price update
Hi,
Thank you for being a YouTube Premium member. We hope you and up to 5 members of your household are enjoying your YouTube Premium benefits, including ad-free and downloadable videos, background play, and uninterrupted access to over 100 million songs with the YouTube Music app.
To continue delivering great service and features, we’re increasing your price to TRY 115.99 /month. We don’t make these decisions lightly, but this update will allow us to continue to improve Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube.
You will see the change reflected on your December 30, 2023 billing date.
While we hope that you continue to be a member, you can cancel your subscription at any time here. To check the status of your account and billing information, go to your Settings > Purchases and Memberships page.
You can find more information on the latest updates in the YouTube Help Center.
Thanks for being a YouTube Premium member.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Premium team
Help Center • Email options
You received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your YouTube Premium product or account.
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sorted by# all these "cheap" countries - Argentina, Turkey, Pakistan, etc - are facing huge economic challenges and their currencies are crashing against the $; Turkey recently raised interest rate to 35%, with a cash reserve ratio of 25%, in an effort to combat inflation running at 63%
# Argentina has put in currency controls making remittances in $ extremely difficult
# all the streaming services are US based and have a bulk of their costs in $, including content purchase / development, and would therefore like to see their revenue growing in $ - difficult when the currency is crashing and cannot be hedged cheaply
Please also remember that these changes make these services far more expensive for actual Turkish or Argentinian residents, but are still affordable to fake residents. As I said, it is not really about UK users.
So it used to cost ~ £2.86
Now it costs ~ £3.41
Somehow I think this massive 55p increase is not to stop the below.
"They're trying to combat people using a vpn to get a Turkey subscription instead of paying their extortionate UK prices."
Also below is Turkiyes inflation rate for the past 12 months.
Still cheap but a sharp increase. Netflix Turkey has also been doing regular increases.
INSANE if I was in Turkey.