Google is running a promotion for YouTube Premium where you can get 90 days of access to the service for completely free. Is there are a catch? No. Not really. There are some pre-requisites, but nothing that will require you to pay for anything down the line unless you want to. In fact the one major requirement is that you haven’t had a subscription to any of Google’s premium services before. This includes YouTube Premium, YouTube Red, Google Play Music, or YouTube Music Premium.
It looks like the promotion is also showing up for people from today. Or at least very recently. As this is specifically an offer that Google has started giving out as a Cyber Week deal.
YouTube Premium is only free to first-time subscribers
As you may have probably already guessed, Google’s free promotion here is not available to everyone. If you want to take advantage of it, you need to be a first-time subscriber of the listed premium services above. Stadia Pro is not mentioned, so it’s not clear if you’ll be locked out of the promotion if you have it even if you haven’t subscribed to any of the others before.
The good news here is that you are likely to get the promotional offer even if you have accounts with YouTube and YouTube Music. So long as it’s the standard free account that everyone has access to when they set up a Google account. That being said, there’s an easy way to tell if you get the 90 days for free or not. You simply need to click this link, and the page that pops up should tell you what your offer is.
If you’re not eligible for the promotion, then you should get the standard offer that everyone gets. Which is 30 days of free access before needing to pay the $11.99 a month. If you are eligible, then it should tell you that you have a special Cyber Week deal available to claim. Which is the YouTube Premium access for free for 90 days.
You’ll be reminded of your upcoming subscription charge
Keep in mind that you won’t have to pay anything for YouTube Premium for three months. But that doesn’t mean you should just forget about the fact that you will eventually have an upcoming payment if you decide to keep the service.
The good thing is Google will remind you about the upcoming subscription payment about a week beforehand. So even if you forget Google will be able to refresh your memory. YouTube Premium basically gets rid of ads for videos and music. And it lets you listen to audio in the background in the Android app.