"And we're thinking we'll call it Youtube Red"

"Uh........... yknow that's... it's... i heard once that... nevermind".

http://www.thewrap.com/youtube-exec-on-comparisons-to-porn-s...

"In a Q&A session with reporters Wednesday at YouTube Space Los Angeles, company executives were asked if they were concerned that consumers would confuse their new YouTube Red product with RedTube, an online porn platform.

“We did a lot of consumer testing, so we were comfortable with it,” Robert Kyncl, YouTube chief business officer, said of the name."

Maybe Google is ok with watching the awkwardness that will ensue, since it probably won't cause them any monetary harm.

"Part of the controversy about whitehouse.com was that users (especially minors in most cases) wishing to visit the website of the White House (www.whitehouse.gov) could easily go to the adult website instead."

In a professional setting, in the context of a marketing/naming discussion, I doubt anyone would have a problem saying "that's too close to the name of a popular porn site". Nobody whose humor has grown past a 12-year-old's will respond to that with "and how exactly do you know that?"; it's the job of the people in that room to know about myriad brands and products that they may or may not use, and the connotations of various names.

* The opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of my company.

Substantively, it seems that their is just one, with two different names: the announcement indicates that YouTube Red will include Google Play Music subscription, and vice versa, and the pricing is the same, so essentially there is one audio/video subscription service.

I guess it makes sense to merge offers into one big 'You probably want some of this' bucket - for the company.

http://www.red.com/

Because YouTube Red is a brand targeted at people who are using YouTube now and want it to be ad free. Google Play Music All Access is a side benefit for that audience.

(Conversely, Google Play Music All Access is an existing product targeting people who want unlimited music streaming -- while the music use of YouTube is somewhat relevant to that audience, ad free YouTube viewing isn't a core benefit to that audience; so with the YouTube Red coming on board and including, and being included by, Google Play Music All Access, you've got one substantive product with two different brands targeted at different audiences.)

It might, in the long term. The next step after expanding the services offered under Google Play Music subscription and adding a new name for it (without immediately disrupting anything) might well be retiring the old name, moving the whole audio/video streaming product area under the YouTube brand.

Also plenty of people don't realize/know/care that youtube is owned by Google. They are still a pretty independent brand from a consumer perspective.

"And as a special bonus - YouTube Red works with Google Play Music, so subscribe to one and automatically get access to the other."

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/10/red.html

So, they're different, but as each includes the other and they have the same $9.99 price, the difference is essentially purely academic.