News Politician in France calls for new tax on music streaming services A senator in France has called on the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak to start taxing music streaming platforms
News Warner Music’s WMX launches visual podcast series exploring The Notorious B.I.G.’s final album Series is entitled Iconic Records: Life After Death
News Snap, which now has 750m monthly users, expands augmented reality partnership with Live Nation Platform will offer custom-built, immersive AR tools at 16 festivals
News PRS for Music strikes partnership with music tech startup Orfium for licensing across Africa Orfium was founded in 2015 in Los Angeles by Drew Delis and Chris Mohoney and is led by CEO Rob Wells
News Utopia Music slashes 15% of global workforce; over 300 staff laid off at company in past 6 months MBW recently broke the news that Utopia had sold music publishing platform Sentric to Believe just a year after Utopia itself acquired the firm
News Audio file management startup Myxt, founded by ex-Google and Stripe developers, raises $2m Company was founded in 2018 by Chris Wetherell and Sheena Pakanati
News SoundCloud partners with Feature.fm to provide marketing tools to indie artists Feature.fm's services include shareable and trackable pre-save and smart links
News Spotify develops new tool for turning radio broadcasts into podcasts Broadcast-to-Podcast tool is now available for any publisher with an account on Megaphone
News Google must go to trial in Sonos patent infringement case, says judge Sonos sued Google for patent infringement in 2020
News TV-based music streaming service Roxi raises $8.7m, plans expansion into the US Company says it offers 90m music videos and 400,000 karaoke tracks
News Position Music sells minority stake to Vesper, whose founders were involved in Kobalt investment Most historical Kobalt investors exited the company following its majority sale to US-based Francisco Partners in 2022, a deal believed to be worth around USD $750 million
News Spotify to shutter music trivia game Heardle – less than a year after acquiring it Heardle lets players guess a song based on its opening notes
News Music streaming contributed over $14bn to the US economy in 2021, according to DiMa study DiMA's 'The Impact of Digital Music Streaming' report was published earlier this week
News Fitness app Strava integrates Spotify to let users stream songs, podcasts while tracking workouts Strava's users can now play, pause, resume, skip, and browse Spotify from within its app
News Snapchat strikes new music licensing deals with UnitedMasters, BUMA/STEMRA and more Snapchat already has existing licensing deals with major record labels and music publishers