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YouTube’s standalone music streaming app could be a game-changer

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Spotify is considered to be the most-popular and successful music streaming service out there at the moment, but what about YouTube? It may be a video-sharing service, but how many people do you think listen to music through YouTube every day? Even though that music is in the form of a video, it’s still music streaming, and if you counted YouTube as a music streaming service, it would definitely be the most-popular. With that in mind, it’s not surprise that YouTube has decided to cash in on its massive arsenal of music videos and active userbase by launching a separate app that’s dedicated solely to music streaming. 

YouTube is first and foremost a video portal, the world’s largest and most popular online collection of moving images. But it’s also a search engine, the world’s second largest, trailing only its parent company, Google. And while the library on YouTube is made up of videos, in practice it has also become the world’s largest streaming music service, used by more people than well-known names like Spotify or Apple when it comes to consuming songs and albums. Today, the video giant is rolling out a new app, YouTube Music, that attempts to capitalize on its dominance in this space. The app is free, and you can use it in free, ad-supported mode, but it becomes a lot more powerful and interesting if you pay for a YouTube Red subscription. The fact that YouTube Music and Google Play Music both exist is a touch confusing, especially since you can use them both for free, but they both add a bunch of features if you subscribe to YouTube Red. The best way to understand the new music app is to think of Facebook. Just as the social network broke out Messenger into its own so it could optimize the experience, YouTube now has dedicated apps for its three most popular verticals: kids, gaming, and music.

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Alfie Joshua Alfie Joshua is the editor at Auto in the News. Find him on Twitter, and Pinterest.

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