YouTube’s Plan to Win the Music Streaming Wars; Arab Music Industry New Target for Global…
Inside YouTube’s plan to win the music-streaming wars — www.protocol.com YouTube has always been important to the music business. Now…
Inside YouTube’s plan to win the music-streaming wars — www.protocol.com
YouTube has always been important to the music business. Now, with YouTube Music, it’s trying to build a music universe Spotify and Apple can’t touch.
Arab music industry new target for global streaming giants — www.aljazeera.com
Online platforms to invest in emerging markets in the MENA region to bring the outmoded business into digital era.
Kegelman’s Spotify Puts Multi-Platform User Data To Work For Advertisers — www.beet.tv
Reach people as they cook, study, travel, work out, stream what they love.” That is Spotify’s sale pitch to advertisers.
Musicians tell MPs streaming payments are “threatening the future of music” — www.nme.com
Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Nadine Shah and Gomez’ Tom Gray have told MPs that streaming payments are unfair.
Soundtrack Unlimited B2B On-Demand Music Streaming Helps Artists Get Paid — www.forbes.com
Soundtrack Your Brand business-to-business (B2B) music streaming company, formerly Spotify Business, today introduced Soundtrack Unlimited, the world’s first on-demand B2B music streaming product offering businesses audio services comparable to Spotify and Apple Music.
Spotify has 300 million users. It wants more of them to listen to podcasts. — www.vox.com
Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen tells Peter Kafka about how her parent company Spotify plans to turn music listeners into podcast devotees.
Warner Music Revenues Flat for Fiscal 2020 — variety.com
Warner Music Group, which went public earlier this year, reported revenues that were essentially flat for its fiscal 2020.
Could Epidemic Sound really be worth more than $1bn? — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
How Epidemic might pitch investors on its catalog, rather than its company.
SPOTX Fuels Video Programmatic Growth for POPS Worldwide — popsww.com
SpotX partners with POPS Worldwide to activate video ad serving and programmatic activation across its OTT channels in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. SpotX will be the leading supply side partner and ad server to power their video monetization and scale advertising reach through unified auctions, audience activation, smart ad breaks and real-time data.
Audio Movers, Jack Trip Software Lets Musicians Play Together During Pandemic — www.npr.org
Since the pandemic started, musicians have been trying to find ways to play together in real time online. Two platforms — Audio Movers and Jack Trip — offer promise.
Santa Came Early This Year With This Spotify Black Friday Deal — www.refinery29.com
If you’ve been on the fence about joining Spotify, now’s the time to make your move.
Audoo raises £5.2m from investors including Björn Ulvaeus — musically.com
British startup Audoo has raised a Series A funding round of £5.2m (around $6.9m) to continue developing and rollout out its technology.
Is streaming killing the music charts? — theboar.org
Over 130 million people have a Spotify Premium subscription. This nation of streamers is not only evidence for how important music is, it shows how blatantly commodified it has become.
SoundCloud’s revenues jumped 37% to $166m in 2019 — and it’s just posted its first ever profitable quarter — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
Firm’s $10m acquisition of Repost Network last year appears to be paying off.
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