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 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
- Aug 1: ID checks are also coming to Australia, where YouTube and other social media services are to be banned for everyone under the age of 16 from Dec 10. The ban is for YouTube accounts, which includes YouTube Music. Facebook, Instagram and others are also to be banned.
- Jul 14: Android Authority reviews YouTube Music as a podcast app.
- 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.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia