Streaming music to make Google’s YouTube video daughter profitable. Next week, the company starts the subscription offer Key Music. In the first year that MTV should bring in hundreds of millions of dollars for smartphones.

It has long been speculated long the group was only nebulous notes, now it’s official: YouTube gets a music subscription service. Per blog post, the company announced in the early hours of Thursday Music Key, a commercial-free music-streaming service that will be available both on the Web and via Google Apps.

The fact that Google is working on such an offer, YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki announced the end of October itself. Think about it reinforces, in addition to advertising-financed a paid, ad-free YouTube to offer, the manager said at the press conference code / mobile in California. But she would not comment on a specific date. On Wednesday, after all, it has been reported that the group had agreed with indie labels about the compensation for a subscription offer.

Music Key will next week launch a beta version and everyone will not be accessible. Instead you would first YouTube users who frequently accessed music videos, get invitations to test the new offer. Only proposals users in the US, the UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Finland. If and when the offer is coming to Germany, is unclear.

After a free six-month trial period, the service will cost initial period of eight dollars per month. Later, the price of the subscription will raise to $ 10 a month, they say. A specific date for the change was not mentioned above.

On YouTube site, the change will come into view. Apart from slides “Featured videos” and “My Subscriptions” there is now a third called “music”. After installing the latest updates of this tab can also be found in the YouTube apps for Android and iOS. Users should there a selection of music videos, based on previously-viewed videos, find. Furthermore, it also top ten lists are maintained.

While free users have to look at commercials while watching and listening to this video, customers should pay the same video to view ad-free future. In addition, the YouTube apps coming Monday will get recent updates that will enable users to download music in high quality on smartphones and listen offline. In addition, should also be able to play on the Android app “Google Play Music” subscription customers YouTube music.

For music streaming services such as Spotify and Deezer created with Music Key a serious competitor. The YouTube deal has from the start, hundreds of millions of users who are all potential subscription customers who have already installed on their Tablets Smartphones us the necessary apps. And YouTube has over the established providers add value, because it can not only play music, but also just music videos. This Music Key could be something like MTV for smartphones and the Web.