Comparing Spotify with YouTube?

YouTube, owned by Google, is a big way for

people to discover new music these days.

YouTube is free and absolutely chock-a-block

with music, and it also provides revenue and

promotional opportunities for artists. Despite

it being a video-based medium, it actually has

many similarities to Spotify.

I’ve discovered tons of new music thanks to

YouTube — and continue to do so. If you’re in

a band, you’ve probably relished the exposure

YouTube can bring to you — just like the old

days of MySpace, when acts like Lily Allen and

the Arctic Monkeys found fame on the back

of uploading some tracks onto their MySpace

pages.

But because anyone can upload stuff, music

quality on YouTube is hugely variable, depend-

ing on who’s uploaded it. The playback on

YouTube isn’t quite as instant as Spotify, either,

and you can’t easily create or share a lot of

playlists.

If I find an act I like on YouTube, I sometimes

go to Spotify to see whether Spotify offers their

music so that I can hear a far better audio ver-

sion of the clip. (I also get to avoid the childish

comments and spam that tend to plague popu-

lar YouTube clips!)

Spotify is kind of like YouTube’s nerdy brother —

a bit more mature, a bit wiser, but underneath it

all, he knows how to have a fun time.

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