Lyor Cohen: Google will merge its splintered music services YouTube Red and Google Play Music

[fukkyalifestyle]

One day the world is going to be run by one company

Listening to music via Google is about to get easier.

Lyor Cohen, YouTube's head of music, said the video streaming platform and Google's Play Music will merge into a new music-focused service at the New Music Seminar in New York, The Verge first reported.

"The important thing is combining YouTube Red and Google Play Music, and having one offering," Cohen said, addressing a question about YouTube Red's low popularity among music streaming services.

"In my mind, the missing piece on building these businesses is collaborating with the [music] industry, and not just making deals and going away and seeing how it works."

Google's overall approach to music looks pretty splintered right now. It owns Google Play Music, a streaming service which competes directly with Spotify and Apple Music; but you can also listen on YouTube, either by searching for videos or by using YouTube's dedicated music services.

YouTube Music is a video-first version of Google Play Music, except that there are ads. The subscription-based, ad-free version is called YouTube Red, which lets you listen to audio in the background or download videos offline, and also offers exclusive shows from vloggers.

Google is aware of this complexity and wants to fix it, but a statement from the company suggests the different services aren't going to merge right now.

"Music is very important to Google and we’re evaluating how to bring together our music offerings to deliver the best possible product for our users, music partners and artists," Google said in a statement to The Verge. "Nothing will change for users today and we’ll provide plenty of notice before any changes are made."

 

[AB Ziggy]

Lyor is part of Google now? So who's managing Young Thug?

Either way, i ain't trusting anything from him knowing his history with record labels. Google's making a mistake bringing him on board

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Lyor is part of Google now? So who's managing Young Thug?

Either way, i ain't trusting anything from him knowing his history with record labels. Google's making a mistake bringing him on board

yeah Lyor fukked over ICP when island and def jam merged, he isn't to be trusted

 

[MoroccanBoy]

I swear to god if that tall fake Israeli fukks up google play music I'm buying an iPhone and switching up

 

[blackjedi]

shyt about to be over lyor gone to make youtube remix replace it and ruin my music library

 

[AB Ziggy]

I wouldn't mind ONLY if they move the 50k song feature over and if I can transfer my library.

 

[blackjedi]

I wouldn't mind ONLY if they move the 50k song feature over and if I can transfer my library.

we knowing how lyor is probably not i probably not going to the amazon route in which they remove their music locker feature

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

i swear this fukker don't get tired.....

he had announced plans last year to work towards the goal of turning Youtube into a fulltime Subscription service at 120$ a year for subscribers

its pretty obvious this move is part of the initial stages

"We bringing more CAKE ($$$) to the PARTY with a 120$ SUBSCRIBTION SERVICE"-Youtube exec Lyor Cohen

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Just read that Bayer's merging with Monsanto. Alotta mergers.

*chappelle voice* it'll be one world soon

 

[blackjedi]

i swear this fukker don't get tired.....

he had announced plans last year to work towards the goal of turning Youtube into a fulltime Subscription service at 120$ a year for subscribers

its pretty obvious this move is part of the initial stages

"We bringing more CAKE ($$$) to the PARTY with a 120$ SUBSCRIBTION SERVICE"-Youtube exec Lyor Cohen

shyt this white devil ruining two things this year whats a good alternative to store music

 

[desp]

Lyor is part of Google now? So who's managing Young Thug?

Either way, i ain't trusting anything from him knowing his history with record labels. Google's making a mistake bringing him on board

Lyor left 300 in 2016

 

[CHICAGOrilla]

As long as I can still watch my weird YouTube videos for free,I couldn’t care less

 

[blackjedi]

shyt man as i started to use the music storage feature this year they wanted to change

 

[Calmye]

i swear this fukker don't get tired.....

he had announced plans last year to work towards the goal of turning Youtube into a fulltime Subscription service at 120$ a year for subscribers

its pretty obvious this move is part of the initial stages

"We bringing more CAKE ($$$) to the PARTY with a 120$ SUBSCRIBTION SERVICE"-Youtube exec Lyor Cohen

YouTube and YouTube red are two different services Breh. How he is about to bring music and tv together will be ground breaking. The MTV for millennials. Now 120 is fukking retarded . That I can agree on

 

[Calmye]

I swear to god if that tall fake Israeli fukks up google play music I'm buying an iPhone and switching up

love Google play. Im hoping for the best