News After selling stake to Live Nation, Veeps equips 60+ US venues with livestream technology Venues to get new tech include The Fillmore in San Francisco and Philadelphia, House of Blues in Chicago and New Orleans, The Wiltern in Los Angeles
News Cooking Vinyl launches catalog division with ‘aggressive acquisition policy’, headed by Steve Bunyan New department will be headed up by catalog industry veteran Steve Bunyan
News Spotify is officially a hardware maker now, as Car Thing arrives in the US Music streaming company's voice controlled smart device gets limited US release
News Brooke Salisbury promoted to General Manager of Warner’s ADA in the UK Exec joined ADA UK as Marketing Director in 2020
News Germany’s recorded music revenues grew 9% to $2bn last year, thanks to streaming’s lockdown boom Streaming surges ahead in Germany, as CD continues to slide
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: BMG x KKR, CTM, Universal, Eliah Seton, Matt Gudinski The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Kardinal Offishall appointed Senior Vice President, A&R at Universal Music Canada Artist and exec works closely with the company’s Urban Marketing team led by industry veteran Craig 'Big C' Mannix
News Patreon is now valued at $4bn after raising $155m in latest funding round Platform's creators have earned over $2bn since the company’s inception in 2013
News Official: Eliah Seton named President of SoundCloud Seton joins SoundCloud from Warner Music Group
News Another $1bn washes into the music business, as CTM partners with US fund to buy publishing and master rights Partnership has already acquired over 1,000 songs from TEN Music Group, including hits by Rihanna and Shakira
News Tencent-owned music streaming service JOOX inks licensing deal with Merlin Agreement licenses Merlin content via JOOX’s ad-supported and premium tiers, as well as its karaoke feature
News Spotify opens personalized ‘On Repeat’ playlist to brand sponsorship Playlist opens for sponsorship across 30 markets in North America, Europe, Latin America, and APAC
News Sony Music Publishing India signs global deal with Anand Audio Company represents over 5,000 tracks and over 700 original Kannada film soundtracks
News Universal and Republic team with Wassim ‘SAL’ Slaiby to launch Universal Arabic Music New label 'will create new opportunities to advance Arabic music and culture with global partners, platforms and brands,' says UMG
News TikTok strikes multi-territory licensing deal with South Africa’s SAMRO/CAPASSO Through CAPASSO's existing partnerships, the deal will cover 58 territories across Africa