YouTube’s “Premium Lite” trial offers ad-free YouTube for €7 a month

YouTube unbundles music features from the Premium plan in Europe.

The YouTube play-button logo duplicated numerous times on a white background.

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YouTube Premium is $12 a month, and the service offers ad-free videos, background play on phones, and downloading videos (both for YouTube and Google's Spotify competitor, YouTube Music). What if you don't care about music and all that extra functionality, though? What if you just want to not see ads?

Google is now trialing a service for that, and it's called "YouTube Premium Lite." For €7 a month ($8.31), you would get ad-free YouTube and nothing else—no background play, video downloads, or Music Premium access.

The Verge got an official statement from Google on the project, and the company calls the service a "test offering" currently available in "Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden." Here's Google's statement:

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In selecting space leader, White House opts for policy chops over politics

Vice President Kamala Harris to host first National Space Council meeting this fall.

Chirag Parikh, then-Microsoft Azure Space lead at Microsoft Corp., speaks during a discussion at the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC.

Enlarge / Chirag Parikh, then-Microsoft Azure Space lead at Microsoft Corp., speaks during a discussion at the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC. (credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

On Monday morning, the White House named Chirag Parikh as executive secretary of the National Space Council. This is a key position within the space policy firmament of Washington, DC, as Parikh will have responsibility for suggesting and implementing executive space policy across the domains of military, civil, and commercial space.

With the announcement, the White House also said that Vice President Kamala Harris, who will serve as chair of the National Space Council, will host the first meeting of the council this "fall."

In background information provided about the announcement, the White House cited several top priorities for the space council, including climate change and advancing "peaceful" exploration programs with allies and partners. However, the first objective listed was, "Support sustainable development of commercial space activity."

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