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YouTube to Launch New Music Subscription Service in March (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube plans to introduce a paid music service in March, according to people familiar with the matter, a third attempt by parent company Alphabet Inc. to catch up with rivals Spotify and Apple. The new service could help appease record-industry executives who have pushed for more revenue from YouTube. Warner Music Group, one of the world's three major record labels, has already signed on, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private talks. YouTube is also in talks with the two others, Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, and Merlin, a consortium of independent labels, the people said.
It's called converting the mp4 video of whatever song I want to mp3 and not paying a cent biiiiiiiiiitches
Ha! Thatâ(TM)ll be the day.
Are they going to call it Google Play Music?
sing along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WZZjXgJ4W8 .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmPFrkuPq0 ..
People need to understand that it's the giant major labels that are pushing for this. They're the ones raking in the money while the artists are making 1/100 1/1000 of a cent per stream. For independent unsigned artists that release albums on their own are screwed even more because the revenue go to these record companies even though the independent artists have absolutely nothing to do with these labels.
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Because that's essentially what they're trying to do in getting people to pay for something they're accustomed to getting for free.
It wants to be the everything to online video. It is a destination for the casual viewer because anyone can upload anything and is therefore useful of viral stuff or breaking news. It's a destination for the new media crowd because it allow them a place to create and grow an audience. It mostly missed the boat on game voyeurism but is trying to catch up there.
It's also important for music because MTV et al shit the bed and moved into more profitable arena of reality television. It's a place for new musicians to debut and a place for existing musicians to expand their audience and to interact with their current one.
However, and this is the tricky part, it requires YouTube to be really good at getting those videos in front of people. This is where having all of those directives comes to mess things up. You have advertisers who have ideas of who they want to be put in front of. You have the aforementioned audience who want more of the same sorts of things they're already watching. And you have the new people wanting an audience. What Alphabet/Google/YouTube has learned in the past few years is that you can't please everyone at the same time and please anyone in the process.
Discovery is a mess and hasn't got any better that it was five years ago when the algorithm took over their front page. It's arguably worse.
So moving music away from YouTube prime might be a good answer for the record labels, but that pretty much guarantees it's not good for anyone else.
As pretty much everyone already knows many people use YouTube to play music in the background while doing various things. But at the same time I don't listen one single mail stream artist out there. Not at all. I listen exclusively to small independent musicians and people that do remixes of other works. Not to mention 'Chillstep' mixes that are great for my anxiety condition. Will there be a place for these people, are we to be subjected to the same old garbage corporate music that infests Spotify? Because I quit that service specially because I got sick and damn tired of the crap from major labels that I never liked to begin with.
Google loves stealing everyone's music, and then charging you listen to it, all while Google profits billions from the stolen music
I am very brand loyal to google, I will support their paid offering once the axe freetube...
e.g. The issue with child content videos having adult/sexual content. De-monetizing/banning science/technology channels.
Shouldn't they fix those problems before adding to the pile? Said no one at the board meeting apparently.
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If you want to download royalty free music for your YouTube videos, some musicians who post their music on YouTube will require that you connect via Spotify to download.
Why the fuck would I lock myself into an computing eco-system that keeps forces me to buy over priced crappy hardware and over prices services that I will never want to use to begin with? So towards that, yeah. I don't know exactly what Apple music has it it's catalog and I never will. Because Apple as a company can get fucked and die in a fire.
But beyond that I fucking hated Spotify for the same reason I hate Apple in general. A closed Ecosystem that required me to use an app to listen to music. And I'm not going to use that. Full fucking stop. The artist that I listen to are found from better services like Band Camp, where I don't have to go through some POS third party corporation to access my music constantly through my devices. There's also the issue where that I don't use my own phone like a fucking toy, so I don't waste my battery life on entertainment. So my Phone never gets used for streaming.
The let's find more ways we can undermine the platform department. If they want to charge more for the "red" service I have now, I'll simply unsubscribe and throw my money towards Amazon.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
All the 3 minute songs have already been written anyways.
So we have Google Play Music. We have YouTube Red. And they are creating ANOTHER subscription music service?
The new service, internally referred to as Remix, would include Spotify-like on-demand streaming and would incorporate elements from YouTube, such as video clips, the people said. YouTube has reached out to artists to seek their help in promoting the new service, one of the people said.
Both of their existing services have on-demand streaming and video clips. One thing that's a pretty rule rule of the internet: people aren't going to suddenly pay for something that they've been getting for free for a decade. Regardless of how snazzy you might make it.
Youtube's free service has been a great shopping-research service, simply because they're one of the most reliable check-out-if-this-album-is-any-good sites. Pretty much everything I've been buying for the last 5 years, I either heard the band play right before I bought their CD at the bar, or else I heard 'em on youtube first, before I placed my Amazon order. If this announcement means Youtube is going to stop being useful for shopping research, then the music vendors better brace for a reduction in sales. And if it's happening because they pressured Youtube to help them reduce their over sales and their employers' profitability, they better hope the stockholders never find out.
Media companies, I don't know why this needs to be repeated so often, but I'll do it one more time: don't shout "fuck you, we don't want your fucking money" at paying customers. Ever. It's always wrong for any business to do that. There are zero exceptions, and if you think you have a story about an exception, you're wrong.
If someone keeps shoving money down your throat and it's got you gagging, you need to relax and swallow; don't spit. I'm sorry if you're having a hard time handling this money load, but if you give it a chance, before long you might realize that you like it. And if you don't.. then maybe you're not cut out for business.
I think Google should really take a firm stance on advertising, lest they die of a thousand cuts:
If you submit ads to YouTube, they will universally be shown on all YouTube videos. You can't choose countries, ethics, subject matter, or complain about being "inappropriately" shown. All or nothing - your ads show up everywhere, or nowhere.
Google's big enough to implement that policy, and it'll shut up the whiney marketing departments that complain that they don't want their vegan mean substitute ad played during a hunting video (or whatever).
If they keep kowtowing to advertisers, the entire platform could fall apart, or at least expose itself to serious competition.
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
I can't wait to decline this over and over in my phone's Youtube app!
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