YouTube Premium provides a student plan, which is a monthly free trial, after which they will charge you $15 a month. Only students are eligible for this plan. This membership is only applicable for four years. If you apply today and after four years of this membership, it will get canceled because you are no longer a student, and you have to buy a regular membership. Then, every year you have to reverify that you are still a student at that University. YouTube has designed this plan so that students can enroll themselves and can take advantage of its premium services.
So, to get this plan you have to click on ‘Try it free.
What is included in the YouTube premium?
YouTube Premium offers the following to its members:
Ad-free experience:
You get ad-free YouTube which is a common thing. Even before that in YouTube music, there it was also ad-free. Ad-free means there is no advertisement going to occur. You also have an option to buy the family or individual plan. In the case of the individual plan, you will be the only person using the YouTube premium. In the case of the family membership plan, only five members of that family will be allowed to use the YouTube paid membership.
Download and go:
The next thing which YouTube premium offers is download and go, which means you can download YouTube content. There are a lot of YouTube videos that you cannot download, but with the YouTube premium membership, you can download and good to go.
Background Video Play:
It also offers a fascinating feature which is Background Play. You can either play them in the background. You might have seen that when you are playing YouTube, you are only stuck to the YouTube channel, you cannot switch over to another desktop or do something else on your mobile phone but in this YouTube Premium you will be able to even close YouTube either to save some charge or battery or if you are doing something else you can smoothly operate YouTube on your background.
YouTube Music premium:
YouTube music premium is another application that is not on YouTube, you have to download it separately. This music premium is solely for YouTube music, there is nothing else on it. You have to go to Play Store and search for YouTube music and download it but you have to pay or you must have the YouTube premium membership to access it.
Steps required to start the YouTube Premium plan:
- Starting with you need to click on try it free and proceed by clicking on Continue
- In the next step, you need to fill-up the form as displayed on the screen. This form is basically to verify your student status.
- The form asks you to fill in details like the country you live in, the university name, and your legal first name.
- After that, check the box and proceed further by providing your contact information that is your email-id.
Now for verification of your student status, you have two choices. The two choices include:
1. Verification using school credentials or
2. Verification using document review
When you log in with your school’s account, it will automatically verify with the SheerID.
On proceeding with the verification using document review, you need to provide the required document. The documents include a student ID card and the related documents that prove you are a student of that particular University in that year.
Then you need to upload them and submit them. It will take a few days on their part to review your data. If it gets approved, you will be notified through an email that your student membership is verified. After that, click on Continue with sign up button to finish the sign-up process. It will take you to a page where you need to set up your payment method. So, you can choose between a credit card or PayPal as the payment method.
So, you enjoy all the benefits that YouTube premium offers with the YouTube premium student membership. The YouTube logo also gets changed to YouTube Premium, and in case you want to manage or cancel or even deactivate your membership, you can do so from the manage tab, which also can be accessed from youtube.com/premium/students.
Eligibility:
You must be an enrolled students in any college or university and that concerned college or university needs to be listed on the webpage of YouTube premium services. This plan is available to only those students who are doing higher education. To date, this plan has not been made available to school students.
Conclusion:
This students plan is for four years only. After that, you cannot enroll in the student plan again. You need to keep in mind that this plan is renewed every year, and you can continue to enjoy the premium services.
