https://qz.com/1280677/subscribing-to-youtube-is-too-confusing/ > YouTube is scrapping its subscription video service YouTube Red and launching two new subscription services—one for music and video, and another purely for music—which will be distinct from Google’s other music-streaming service, Google Play Music. Sound confusing? It is. Here’s what we know about how it will work. > YouTube’s subscription-video service YouTube Red is becoming YouTube Premium and jumping in price to $11.99 a month from $9.99 a month “soon,” the company announced today (May 17). (Existing YouTube Red subscribers will be grandfathered into their current plan rates.) That’s more than the standard plans at streaming-video rivals Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. With the pricier YouTube Premium, you’ll get the ad-free YouTube viewing, original programming, video downloads, and background play that you get now with YouTube Red, plus the features of YouTube Music Premium, which launches on May 22.