YouTube Music
YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Alphabet's Google. The service is designed with an interface that allows users to simultaneously explore music audios and music videos from YouTube-based genres, playlists and recommendations. On December 1, 2020, YouTube Music replaced Google Play Music as Google's primary brand for music streaming. In April 2023, the service expanded its offerings to include support for podcasts shortly before Google Podcasts was shut down. Wikipedia
Website: music.youtube.com
Owned by: YouTube
Latest news
- Apr 24: YouTube is twenty years old this week (YouTube Music is ten years old this year, too). The company has posted plenty of new stats on its blog.
- Mar 19: Spotify 🎶 is rolling out an expanded set of emoji reactions 😀 to comments 😡 about your podcast 🎤. YouTube 📺 has comments ✍️ for everything (though in YouTube Music 🎸 you can only see 👀 them on mobile 📱 not desktop 🖥️) but in YouTube you can only thumbs up 👍 and thumbs down 👎. 💩
- Mar 7: YouTube’s Tim Katz was interviewed by Nick Quah for Vulture. The interview includes a different definition of a “podcast” from Katz (and then the same response we got from YouTube as a followup). Katz points to the all-audio consumption that happens in the YouTube Music app.
- Mar 3: A few more numbers from YouTube: on Feb 1 they celebrated reaching 100mn subscribers to YouTube Music and Premium (Spotify has 263mn); but 2 billion monthly users use YouTube for some form of music content (Spotify has 675mn).
- Feb 19: First look: SiriusXM has just announced that it is to expand its SiriusXM Podcasts+ premium subscription to Spotify, YouTube Music, and other podcast apps via SupportingCast. “This expansion brings SiriusXM Podcasts+ benefits – including ad-free listening to new episodes, exclusive bonus content, and early access to new episodes of popular shows – to all major podcast platforms.” (You can also subscribe directly with Apple Podcasts).
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia