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YouTube Music continues European expansion

YouTube Music adds another 13 European countries

23/07/2019

YouTube Music adds another 13 European countries to its music streaming service bringing the total of YouTube Premium countries to 63 countries. YouTube Music Premium is in 62 countries as South Korea only has YouTube Premium and not YouTube Music Premium. In May this year, YouTube rolled out its service to seven European countries and now it has added 13 more. They are: Bosnia & Herzegovina Croatia Estonia Greece Iceland Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Malta Serbia […]

YouTube Music continues its European expansion

20/05/2019

YouTube Music continues its European expansion adding 7 new countries bring its total list of countries to 50. The new YouTube Music and YouTube Premium countries are: Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic – https://czechrepublic.googleblog.com/ Hungary North Macedonia Poland – https://polska.googleblog.com/ Romania Google’s marketing policy has been to set local pricing for its subscriptions so in Poland a YouTube Music subscription will cost 19.99 złoty (about £4.07) and in the Czech Republic it will cost 149 Czech […]

YouTube Music now free on Google Home

21/04/2019

YouTube Music now free on Google Home or any Google Assistant powered speaker. YouTube Music is being offered as an ad-supported service in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Netherlands, and Austria and will be ‘available in more countries soon’. With YouTube Music and Google Home, you can ask Google Home to play the right music for any moment or mood, and YouTube Music will […]

YouTube student subscriptions come to the UK and 8 other countries

YouTube extends student subscription locations

13/04/2019

YouTube extends student subscription locations for both YouTube Music and YouTube Premium to another 8 additional countries. Student memberships are now available in the following countries: Australia Brazil Canada Japan Mexico New Zealand Russia United Kingdom United States How to get a YouTube Music or YouTube Premium Student Subscription In order to sign up for a YouTube student membership, you must be enrolled as a student at a higher education institution in a location where […]

YouTube Music continues its international expansion

31/03/2019

YouTube Music continues its international expansion adding India, 12 Latin American countries and South Africa to its worldwide coverage. YouTube Music is being developed as a replacement to Google Play Music which is likely to be retired once the full rollout of YouTube Music is complete and all the Google Play Music functionality has been developed for YouTube Music. If you are a subscriber to Google Play Music, then you will get a YouTube Music […]

Google Play/YouTube Music planning to add news in Australia

09/03/2019

Google Play/YouTube Music planning to add news in Australia which is likely to affect traditional media players according to a report from Roy Morgan, the Australian market research company. The conclusions from the report suggest that introducing news content into Google Play/YouTube Music streaming music services will present a significant challenge for TV, radio and traditional newspapers. Over 5.4 million Australians now use music streaming services with Spotify the clear industry leader used by nearly […]

YouTube Music comes to Sonos

03/02/2019

YouTube Music comes to Sonos controlled using the Sonos app. Sonos users with a YouTube Music Premium or YouTube Premium subscription can now easily play official songs, albums, thousands of playlists, and artist radio as well as YouTube’s tremendous catalogue of remixes and live performances. YouTube Music features available on Sonos Recommended Loaded with listening suggestions based on your favourites, Recommended has playlists for every mood, plus your favourites and last played. From Mellow Moods […]