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Almost exactly nine months ago, Google announced it was raising the price of YouTube TV, increasing it from $72.99 per month to $82.99/month. And for anyone who has been subscribed to YouTube TV for a while, you probably saw this coming.
When YouTube TV initially launched in 2017, the service cost just $34.99 each month — an unbelievably good deal by today’s standards. But it only took about a year for the first price increase to arrive, bumping it up to $39.99 per month in 2018, and it’s been downhill for our wallets ever since.
The current $82.99/month price tag sure does sting, but I have a confession to make: I haven’t paid that higher price yet. Instead, my bill is still at the old $72.99/month rate. How? It’s all thanks to Google itself.
The secret trick to lowering your YouTube TV bill
Joe Maring / Android Authority
Like millions of other YouTube TV subscribers, I received an email on December 12 last year informing me that my YouTube TV bill would increase from $72.99/month to $82.99/month effective January 13.
Obviously, I wasn’t happy about this. I already thought the $72.99/month rate was a bit steep, so jacking up the price even more certainly wasn’t something I was looking forward to. After thinking things over for a few days, I decided I could probably live without YouTube TV and end my subscription.
So, on December 28, I did just that. I opened the YouTube TV website, opened the Membership page, and clicked the “Cancel” button. Almost immediately after doing so, I was offered a promotion to keep my current $72.99/month price for the next six months if I didn’t cancel — no other strings attached.
Naturally, I accepted it. Why not, right? I got to keep the old price, and if I still didn’t want to pay $82.99/month once those six months were up, I could always cancel then. So, that’s exactly what I did.
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