YouTube to Take on Spotify with New Music Streaming Service

YouTube is reportedly launching a subscription music service to compete with the social music network Spotify. According to Fortune, the video sharing site will likely give listeners the choice of either playing the songs for free, mixed in with advertisements, or paying a fee to hear the songs ad-free. Google will also build a digital locker at Google Play for Android for purchasing and collecting songs.

YouTube is reportedly launching a subscription music service to compete with the social music network Spotify.

According to Fortune, the video sharing site will likely give listeners the choice of either playing the songs for free, mixed in with advertisements, or paying a fee to hear the songs ad-free.

Google will also build a digital locker at Google Play for Android for purchasing and collecting songs.

Fortune has more:

Potentially foreshadowing how Google’s two separate music services will compliment one another, YouTube has already begun embedding click to buy links on user-uploaded songs that direct to Google Play (along with Google’s competitors: Amazon Mp3 and iTunes).

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