Nairobi, March 15 -- Kenya is one of the 11 countries in which music platform Spotify has launched a video streaming service, taking on Google's YouTube which has dominated the audio-visual space globally.

Spotify on Wednesday announced that it is rolling out music video streaming for premium users in 11 of its markets, of which Kenya is the only African country.

"We're excited to launch music videos in beta for Spotify Premium users across 11 markets, adding another way to enhance the artist-to-fan connection," the Swedish-owned audio streaming service provider said in a statement.

Spotify users will now also be able to stream videos in the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, and Indone...