YouTube Music
YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Google. The service is designed with a user interface that allows users to explore songs and music videos on YouTube based on genres, playlists, and recommendations. In April 2023, the service expanded its offerings to include support for podcasts. Wikipedia
Website: music.youtube.com
Owned by: YouTube
Latest news
- Apr 12: Want to help your listeners listen to your podcast on the YouTube Music app, but would prefer they listen to your proper RSS feed, rather than whatever YouTube wants to do with it? RSS2YTM gives your listeners instructions on how to get your RSS feed in the app. (You can share the link, too).
- Apr 11: YouTube Music has unveiled improvements to the app: enhanced podcast sort options, a “recommended shows” shelf in the app, and improved search results. The company announced the changes on Reddit.
- Mar 14: The YouTube Music app is working on a silence-skip function says 9to5 Google.
- Mar 4: YouTube Music has fired around 50 staff looking to unionize, at the exact moment when they were in a meeting with Austin City Council asking for their help. Google deny they were fired, saying that they were contractors and the contract had ended - and that they need to negotiate with their employer. The National Labor Relations Board has said twice that the workers are jointly employed by both the contractor Cognizant and Google. The Alphabet Workers Union says Google’s action is illegal.
- Feb 26: Setting up a Motorola Android phone over the weekend, your Editor noticed that it came pre-installed with YouTube Music, but also, to his surprise, insisted on installing the soon-to-close Google Podcasts.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia