YouTube Wants to Make Its Own Paid Subscription Music Service
According to Billboard , YouTube is aiming to make its own Spotify-like subscription music service. There'll be a free streaming service (which, uh, should differentiate from free YouTube) and a premium tier that'll be like Google Music's All Access streaming service. Basically, every company wants their own music streaming service! The streaming service is supposed to be made for mobile devices which, duh, since if you want to listen to YouTube on your computer you could just... YouTube it. Billboard describes the YouTube streaming service: The free tier is likely to be unlimited, on-demand access to full tracks on all platforms, including mobile, said several people who have been briefed on the proposed service. In that sense, the paid tier is more of a "soft sell" as YouTube's primary goal is to continue to amass ears and eyes to its mobile platform to sell ads. YouTube, which is already used to listen to music and watch music videos, is goi...