iHeartMedia Acquires Radio Tech Platform Jelli; Taylor Swift’s New Record Deal Highlights Spotify and Streaming

iHeartMedia has entered into an agreement to acquire Jelli, the company behind the SoundPoint platform which enables programmatic buying and selling broadcast radio ad time.

TSwift has a reputation for criticizing the streaming industry and advocating for artists to be paid more. Her new label deal is the latest evidence.

Spotify has resurrected the music industry but Vivendi’s shareholders may be the biggest winners.

Sound Royalties, the finance firm that provides artists with advances on future royalties without having to part with their copyrights, has formed a new strategic marketing relationship with YouTube money monetizer AdRev to provide cash advances to content creators on the Google-owned platform.

Based on app-store charts in the west, Chinese social-music app TikTok is picking up a fine head of steam, following its merger with Musical.ly earlier this year.

YouTube says that Article 13, a controversial clause in a new European law, will destroy its platform. The music industry says this is a smokescreen. Who’s right?

Talking of intense competition for new subscribers… the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) streaming market is heating up nicely as 2018 nears its end, thanks to recent launches in the region by Spotify and Deezer

German music channel Deluxe Music HD is now available on DTH satellite platform Freenet TV via Astra.

Patrick Spence spoke with Barron’s as the shares rose Friday after the company’s latest earnings report.

EDM duo The Chainsmokers are the latest artist to explore the potential of selling samples (or in this case, ‘sound packs’) for music-making software.