{"id":133418,"date":"2019-05-09T23:46:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=244418"},"modified":"2019-05-09T23:46:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:46:58","slug":"google-hits-back-at-music-subscriber-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/09\/google-hits-back-at-music-subscriber-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hits back at music subscriber figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tGoogle disputed a report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) stating the search giant is struggling to grow subscribers on its music services.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper reported YouTube Music had amassed 16 million subscribers by end-March, but is now struggling to add more. It apparently enjoyed good uptake following a revamp in May 2018, but WSJ said growth has stagnated in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>A Google representative told WSJ the details were inaccurate. While the staffer did not divulge precise figures, they said paid subscribers had grown 60 per cent in the year to end-March.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the figures are correct, Google is lagging well behind rivals Spotify (which has 100 million subscribers) and Apple (50 million).<\/p>\n<p>WSJ noted the broader YouTube platform had attracted more than 2 billion users, but is struggling to generate revenue, \u201cwith a high number bailing out after free trials of its premium tiers\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google disputed a report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) stating the search giant is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/apps-home-banner\/google-hits-back-at-music-subscriber-figures\/\">Google hits back at music subscriber figures<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/09\/google-hits-back-at-music-subscriber-figures\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2069,2086,2,2883,2221,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-yHU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133801,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133418\/revisions\/133801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}