Spotify Revamps In-App Concert Discovery; Fender, Meta Partner on VR Experience; UMG Expands Audiomack Deal

Spotify is introducing a new feature that will allow users to better discover nearby events and concerts.

Partnerships between the music and games industries go back decades, but in 2022 there’s a lot of talk about music and ‘the metaverse’ – a catch-all term that includes games, virtual worlds and augmented reality.

Two announcements from Universal Music Group to report on today. First, it has expanded its licensing deal with streaming service Audiomack.

Users can unlock sound tokens by completing an air guitar challenge and answering guitar-based trivia questions, which can then be used to create custom melodies

Spotify is developing a new feature called Community that would allow mobile users to see what sort of music their friends are streaming in real time as well as what playlists they’ve recently updated in a dedicated place in the app.

In his role as Spotify’s Head of Content Business Innovation and Market Intelligence, Máuhan M. Zonoozy leads the company’s strategic direction that keeps the company focused on the future as the leading audio streaming service.

Goldman releases a lot of numbers… that will make music's biggest investors very happy.

The move part of of 'Operation 404’, an initiative to tackle infringing services online.

Since Instagram shifted its focus to short-form video content, users have been experiencing a significant drop in their Instagram engagement rate.

China's Tencent is the latest tech giant to stake a claim to the metaverse, with a new unit reportedly developing hardware and software.

We know about the growing reach of African streaming service Boomplay: it had 69 million monthly active users by April this year.

Schumann joined the satellite radio company in 2015 and led programming for all country music stations, including The Highway, as well as channels in the Christian category and SiriusXM’s Elvis Radio

DAACI has developed and filed a series of patents for its AI core tech, which the firm says will “revolutionise the creative process of music composition, democratising music creation for the metaverse masses”.

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