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by codazoda 3240 days ago
The comment is talking about paid monthly services as YouTube Red vs Netflix. Sure Google has the worlds most popular (mostly free) video site, monetized by advertising, but it can't seem to beat Netflix at paid subscriptions. It hasn't been able to beat Facebook at social networking either. Keep in mind that YouTube was a purchase for Google, as was Instagram for Facebook. Both probably very important for them long term.
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I'm loving Google Play Music, although the branding really sucks.
Sure, they have clients, but it's far from being a huge hit (contrary to, for example, Spotify).

The amount of people using it are extremely small, which is doubly bad when you consider it's almost-out-of-the-box on Android phones, which are so popular.

Don't you mean "Google Play Music All Access / YouTube Red bundle"?