Competing With Paid; The MP3 Is Not Dead; Universal Partners with Tencent

The rise of subscription streaming services, in both the music and video industries, has given the lie to the old complaint that consumers won’t pay for content online. But to many in the music industry, to say nothing of streaming investors, too many of them still don’t.

Everyone keeps saying the MP3 is dead. It's not!

Universal has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with China's leading digital music platform, Tencent, to significantly grow the major's reach into the world's most densely populated country.

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