YouTube Red and Google Play Music will be the same service
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The American firm from Mountain View has several services available to users. YouTube is one of the most popular, free video portal with hundreds of millions of users. Google decided to launch a new streaming service related to YouTube, called ”˜YouTube Red”™. This service consists of a monthly payment subscription to view videos on YouTube with enhanced features and without . But it is not the only premium subscription service that Google has. Google Play Music also offers us, for 9.99 euros per month, a music service. Without , without cuts and with the possibility of downloading it to listen to the songs without an Internet connection.
An executive of the firm has confirmed that these two services will merge. Until now, if you had YouTube Red and Google Play Music available in your country. If you subscribed to one of the services, the subscription to the other was included. That is, If you subscribed to Google Play Music, you had access to YoTube Red Even so, they are two different applications. And although the functions they offer are very similar, YouTube Red is still a video portal, and Google Play Music, an audio music portal. The reason for the merger? YouTube RED seems not to be popular for users who want to listen to music. According to Lyor Cohen, a YouTube executive, the idea is to merge both services to get all the features in one.
A new app with both functions?
At the moment, we don't know how these two services will be linked. Most likely both will be added to one application. With the possibility of listening to music in audio format, and seeing the video content through YouTube. Google has ruled on the matter about the merger of both services. He assures that, for the moment, everything will remain the same. And that it will notify users when both services are the same.
