YouTube’s head of music confirms YouTube Red and Google Play Music will merge
YouTube’s head of music confirmed that the company is planning on merging its Google Play Music with YouTube Red to create a single service. During a panel session for the New Music Seminar conference in New York, Lyor Cohen stated that the company needed to merge the two services to help educate consumers and bring in new subscribers.
“The important thing is combining YouTube Red and Google Play Music, and having one offering,” Cohen said when asked about why YouTube Red isn’t more popular with music users.
Right now, YouTube’s music ecosystem is very unnecessarily complicated. There’s YouTube Red, which removes ads from videos and lets you save them offline, while also giving you access to Google Play Music of free. Then there’s Y…
