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It's in the article.

Starting Tuesday, we're rolling out the new YouTube Music experience in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea*. It will expand more broadly in the coming weeks. We’ll also soon be launching in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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the youtube red announcement also said it was coming to canada "soon". given that they rebranded the whole service quicker than they could manage to expand to Canada, i don't have too much hope for youtube's definition of soon.

Yeah, youtube red/music key has been "coming soon" to some European countries for years already (though it was initially available for play music subscribers for a few months during some limited release/pilot).

A few weeks ago I had a pre-roll ad for YouTube Red. Being in the UK I assumed this meant it was finally launching here but when I followed-up it was still the original set of countries.

I don't understand the roadblock. They already have license to show the videos, just give me them without ads!

Could they be making more money from ads than they expect to make from a reasonably priced premium version?

Not only that, but as a Canadian for things like Cobra Kai I need to pay outright to view - that'd be months of subscription payments in one web series if I wanted to watch it.

As usual, just a few privileged European countries.

Looking forward for an EU wide law to force lazy US companies to either offer the service to everyone or not at all.

What is your “unprivileged” country?

And just FYI, Apple Music is available there.

Not the GP: Singapore here..

The Netherlands

Portugal, definitely not part of the list.

They'll likely be doing a soft deployment so that they can catch any issues as the user-base scales up. Everyone expects everything immediately these days :(

No, what is expect is stop being dealt as 2nd level country, if we ever get to it.

I never bought the XBox 360, because the store wasn't open for indie developers in Portugal.

But yeah, at least we were on the "we are considering it" list.

No, absolutely not the case. In Estonia for example, you are extremely lucky if you are able to actually consume services or any meaningful amount of content in services by registering your account to be in this country. Basically, it's not worth the effort of entry even to the country for large companies, so they don't.

We should introduce a EU wide everything before that can happen :) Like an official EU language.

Maybe we can mix some German and French together to create some kind of EUber language. Lets call it EUber.

J'heisse Hans Müller. Wilkommen-vous

Maybe add some Spanish and Ikea language as well.

We already have quite a few German and French mixes, just need to pick which one you like best.

It just irks me that only the big countries get the goodies, and then some of the smaller ones eventually get it, if ever.

Hey, Switzerland is not that big!

+90% of the songs will be in English anyway. Why not just release it with an English UI too?

The EU is (very slowly) moving in that direction. Last year they introduced legislation so that you can travel throughout the EU with your subscriptions[0] and the next step is to change copyright rules to a country of origin principle so that if you own the broadcast rights in one EU country, you are also allowed to deliver it to other EU countries[1]

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/cross-border-p...

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-...

So when this is released in your country, you'll be a paying subscriber?

I might, but I surely won't be one if the service isn't available at all.

Not sure how I missed that.

Thanks!

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