YouTube Unveils New Streaming Service 'YouTube Music,' Rebrands YouTube Red

No Worries · May 17, 2018

YouTube Unveils New Streaming Service 'YouTube Music,' Rebrands YouTube Red

YouTube Music, a streaming music platform designed to compete with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music, officially has a launch date: May 22nd. Its existence will also shift around YouTube and Google's overall media strategy, which has thus far been quite the mess. YouTube Music will borrow the Spotify model and offer a free, ad-supported tier as well as a premium version. The paid tier, which will be called YouTube Music Premium, will be available for $9.99 per month. It will debut in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and South Korea before expanding to 14 other countries.

One of the selling points for YouTube Music will be the ability to harness the endless amount of information Google knows about you, which it will use to try to create customized listening experiences. Pitchfork reported that the app, with the help of Google Assistant, will make listening recommendations based on the time of day, location, and listening patterns. It will also apparently offer "an audio experience and a video experience," suggesting perhaps an emphasis on music videos and other visual content. From here, Google seems to be focused on making its streaming strategy a little less wacky. Google Play Music, the company's previous music streaming service that is still inexplicably up and running despite teetering on the brink of extinction for years, will slowly be phased out according to USA Today.

Meanwhile, the paid streaming subscription service, known as YouTube Red, is being rebranded to YouTube Premium and will cost $11.99 per month instead of $9.99. (Pitchfork notes that existing YouTube Red subscribers will be able to keep their $9.99 rate.) YouTube Premium will include access to YouTube Music Premium. Here's a handy-dandy chart that helps show what is/isn't included in the two plans.
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This will be helpful to all of those people who went to redtube.com looking for music

Dave2000 · May 17, 2018

They better not change my Google Play Music subscription that includes YouTube Premium AND Music, I'm still on the grandfather plan when they first went live in 2013 at $8/month, that's a steal right now

EDIT: Welp, according to Engadget, YouTube Music is going to eventually phase out Google Play Music, that's lame.....

https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/16/youtube-music-premium-subscription-google-play-music/

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