When is a streaming music service is not officially recognized as such? When it comes to YouTube obviously. While the service was originally designed for people to upload their own videos, has become a musical paradise. If looking for a song and can not find it on YouTube, you probably will not find anywhere else on the Internet.
Music is a very important part of YouTube, and not just climbing record
companies, but also to provide users of the popular platform. While there streaming music services like Spotify, Pandora and others, the video portal of Google is still very popular.
Taking all this into account, it should not surprise that the search engine company wants to launch a music streaming service through YouTube.
Google is planning to do this for a few months, and it seems that the
big launch of the new service will occur in November or December as
expected. In addition, Warner Music will be the first record company to join the party.
The potential of this project for Google, for the record and for users, without doubt is huge.
YouTube attracts over 800 million visitors a month and a lot of them
use the video portal for music they already know and to discover new
music.
Do you think this service will be successful?
Rumors have surfaced that the company Apple is working on a music streaming service over the Internet.
According to a report, Apple is already talking to several record companies to adopt a similar music streaming to offer Pandora,music streaming.
The first rumors emerged about through the Wall Street Journal in
September, but the latest reports say that Apple is already in the
middle of negotiations with record labels and could reach an agreement
in November.
The sale of music through iTunes has been successful for Apple, so it
makes sense for the company to begin offering this new type of service,
which certainly would be up and running from January to March next year.
Apple is preparing an online radio service like Pandora, according to sources close to the company who spoke to the Wall Street Journal .
This supposedly music service will work with all Apple hardware and
perhaps even Windows computers, which has led some to speculate that it
will be integrated into iTunes instead of being a standalone
application.
As expected, the sources believe that the service will not be available on devices with the Google Android operating system.
Enter the market for streaming seems a logical step for Apple though
unlike what they did a decade ago with the iPod, not forging a new path. Actually are following well-established services like Pandora and Spotify - even though this market is very difficult.
Pandora, for example, has yet to report profits despite significant
growth in revenue mainly due to the high cost of the royalties generated
by the transmission of music.
The sources also said that Apple is negotiating licenses that would
give users the option to play any song as often as you want, which is a
common complaint in Pandora.
Cupertino apparently also is negotiating their own prices rather than
simply accept the rates set so far by the federal government.
Negotiations are still in their early stages so the most likely will not hear anything about the event next week where they will be iPhone 5.
