YouTube publishes its plans for 2022 which are centred around ‘Community, Collaboration and Commerce’. In a recent blog posting, YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan offers an inside look at this year’s new products, tools, and features for its creators, viewers, and partners. As can be imagined this focusses mainly on YouTube and how creators and partners can promote their work and monetize their efforts. As far as YouTube Music is concerned there are no major announcements here and it does feel that YouTube Music is once again the poor relation compared to its video sibling.
The full text of the announcement regarding YouTube Music follows:
“YouTube Music will continue giving listeners the most expansive experience, featuring a catalog of over 80 million official singles, albums, remixes, covers, and hard-to-find music. Last year, we began rolling out background listening in Canada, free of charge. And on our main app, we’re giving Premium members even more seamless and smoother audio experiences. We’ve launched new listening controls and will introduce a feature to improve the listening experience by reducing loud peaks and boosting softer sounds.”
