Universal Music Group’s quarterly earnings continued to grow on the back of a strong streaming performance. The label’s parent company, Vivendi, has released its first-quarter results as it moves ahead with plans to sell off a stake in UMG. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Behind the scenes with The Daily. Building the perfect podcast studio. People still want to pay for records. Continue Reading
Apple Podcasts are going to move toward a standalone web presence. This week, several tech outlets reported that the web listening experience would be getting separated from iTunes. A few podcasts are getting preview versions that show a URL of podcasts.apple.com rather than requiring either the iTunes app or website to play. Continue Reading
Edison Research and Triton Digital released the 2019 Podcast Consumer Report today in a webinar, loaded with metrics from Edison’s monumental Infinite Dial and Share of Ear consumer research studies. The program and its nearly 30 data-infused slides were presented to Edison SVP… Continue Reading
Several streaming services drew the ire of songwriting groups when they moved to appeal the mechanical royalty rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board. Although Amazon, Google, and Pandora are also participating in the appeal, Spotify has been shouldering the bulk of the critique. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Streaming and environmental sustainability. Peabody Award nominees include podcasts. Why keep your CD collection. Continue Reading
Universal Music Group has inked a licensing agreement with uduX, a streaming music service based in Nigeria. The deal will bring uduX listeners access to UMG’s catalog of Nigerian and international artists. UMG is the first major to sign with this service. Continue Reading
TikTok has seen global popularity as a mobile platform for short-form music videos and lip syncing, and there have been multiple new developments surrounding the app. First, the service has been working to build itself as a music discovery platform. The second major development is higher up the chain, involving labels. Continue Reading
Triton Digital announced that Montreal-based music, media, and technology company Stingray is its latest client. Triton will take charge of monetizing the streaming audio content on the Stingray Music mobile app. Continue Reading
Deezer has hired Nigel Harding as its new vice president of artist marketing. Harding will lead the music company’s artist marketing efforts, including development of special campaigns and projects to appeal to its global listener base. Continue Reading
Boomplay Music, a streaming platform serving Africa, announced that it has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The financing will support the company’s expansion efforts across Africa. The company currently has more than 44 million downloads of its app and is adding an average of 2 million new subscribers monthly. Continue Reading
Headliner, a platform for social media audio discovery, has entered a partnership with podcast platform Pinecast. Under the terms of their arrangement, Headliner will provide Pinecast users with the tools to create video clips of their content that can be posted to social networks. Continue Reading