Spotify vs YouTube Music. Let's get an honest comparison based on a few

different sections of the video. If you're new here please punch the

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music, I'm a singer-songwriter myself so you can check some of that music I'll

leave a couple links in the description. It's all on YouTube Music and Spotify, Tidal,

whatever you want. Let's get into this comparison and review video I'm going to

structure it through four different sections music music discovery pricing

and features and I want to go through each of those four sections looking at

YouTube Music looking at Spotify which one is better in each of those areas

let's start with the first section of music and I want to start with YouTube

music and then we'll get into Spotify now YouTube music has more or less the

exact same music catalog as Spotify over you know 60 million songs on each

platform a key difference when it comes to YouTube music is they have Taylor

Swift Kanye West jay-z some of the big artists that aren't on Spotify Spotify

is taking some really bad press when it comes to songwriter royalties and some

big artists like Kanye West Taylor Swift and jay-z are not on Spotify because

they pay artists their songwriting royalties very poorly compared to some

of the other streaming platforms when it comes to YouTube music YouTube music has

all this music because well they have the music videos so you can just listen

right there to the music videos and you have the music which is great and

something Spotify just doesn't have so big up right away for YouTube music so

what's the music catalog when it comes to Spotify well Spotify has also an

enormous music catalog over 60 million songs when it comes to both catalogs

you're gonna likely find the song you want on each catalogue but Spotify is

missing some of these independent artists who had their music on YouTube

or who had their music on SoundCloud but not on Spotify as a songwriter and a

musician you need a distributor to put your music on Spotify whereas if you are

a musician or a songwriter and you just want to put your music on YouTube while

you can up to YouTube for free you can't just go

and upload to Spotify that's not how it works you need to pay a distributor to

get your music on Spotify because of that YouTube music has much more music

from independent artists who are just uploading for free to YouTube music so

you get more music so for the section of music I'm going to crown YouTube's music

as the winner here just because it has more variety of music not to mention all

the music videos attached those songs which we'll get into a bit later next

section music discovery now let's start with YouTube music again YouTube music

has been I think the biggest competitor when it comes to Spotify for finding new

music and here's why well YouTube is owned by Google and Google has all your

information especially if you have a gmail account you use Google Drive and

they're gonna have a lot of data on you so they can recommend music that is

really in line with your interests and I noticed that right away when I signed up

for YouTube music and YouTube music premium I already had really solid

recommendations just because of how I use YouTube and what music videos I

searched for on YouTube and who I subscribed to on YouTube already right

away I was recommended music that I like that didn't happen on Spotify right away

it took a while for the algorithm to kick in because their data is really in

the box in Spotify and they can only use what you're doing on Spotify I'll give

you an example you can see here that when I'm in YouTube just on my profile

at library I have the videos that I liked and who I subscribed to on YouTube

I have liked songs already but you can see that I already have things going on

in my youtube music account but I just signed up for YouTube music so so it's

really valuable that they have all that data and history of you on YouTube and

Google that they can leverage and use inside YouTube music now for the section

of music discovery when it comes to Spotify Spotify just happens to be

really really strong their underlying algorithm that is built into their

platform that helps you recommend new music that are in line with your

interests through most specifically their discover weekly and taste breaker

playlists which are looking at artists you like and then

commanding new artists is you've never heard before that you hopefully will I

now YouTube music kind of has something similar to the discover weekly playlist

which is this your mixtape your endless personalized music where you can just go

ahead you know and play that and right here it's like oh great

it probably thinks I like sting which I actually do like sting

how did it know that likely because it has my data app history on YouTube and

then you you see here on the right side you have all the songs that you

potentially could like so very much almost the exact same to the discover

weekly playlist however the only big difference is the discover weekly

playlist updates weekly and this playlist I don't know how much it

updates I know it has been updated but it doesn't specifically say on a weekly

bi-weekly or monthly basis so for the section of music discovery this is tough

I'm going to crown spotify as the winner for new music discovery let's get into

the section of features and I want to touch on the design a little bit of the

apps as well both have web apps where you can use in like Chrome or Safari

both have native applications to where you can download and use them your

desktop or use on your phone you can really tell that YouTube music is new to

streaming services and that Spotify has a lot more thought out features and this

is not a surprise to me because YouTube music is not just YouTube music as a

company it's Google and they have a lot of priorities at the company level where

they're pushing whereas Spotify is a streaming service and they are only in

streaming services so their priority is to make the best streaming service in

the world so they're pushing a lot more ideas and features in the product as

opposed to YouTube music where it's very much more of a slimmed-down

streaming service than Spotify a few of those features I want to mention are

like the crossfade where you can blend songs to playback and there's no awkward

pause in the middle the integration with social platforms where you can share

songs on Instagram for example the integration with podcast big one there

that Spotify has up on YouTube music YouTube music doesn't have podcasts yet

I mean a lot of the podcasts have YouTube music videos so you can find

those but there's no real Podcast system built into YouTube music

yet and also radio Spotify has radio something that YouTube music doesn't

have where you can get continuous radio and Spotify a new music and music that

you like I have not seen this on YouTube music yet and I'm going to have to pick

modify at the crown winner there way more thought-out been around the market

long enough so they know what listeners want not to say that YouTube music won't

get there but right down crown winner and Spotify last section pricing you

don't have to argue about anything overpriced because it's the same they

have $9.99 a month where you get ad free listening and then there's a family plan

at $4.99 a month and then there's a student plan at $5.99 a month

the only small difference there are on the family accounts where Spotify gives

you six family members and YouTube music gives you five so YouTube Music offers a

30-day free trial on their premium package and both offer a free for life

ad listening platform so to crowd winners there are YouTube music and

spotify they're the exact same price but if you have six people on your family

well audis choice is to go with Spotify overall I'm going to crown Spotify as

the better platform right now when it comes to streaming services however in a

year from now I think I will judge very differently and I'm gonna say that

YouTube music will eventually be better let's have a debate in the comments let

me know if you use YouTube music or Spotify which one you like better punch

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and i hope to see you in the next video