News MTV co-founder John Sykes steps down from Shazam board after 5 years Second major departure from board this year after Brent Hoberman
Interviews Martin Goldschmidt: 5 life lessons from 30 years of Cooking Vinyl Smoking joints, mad accountants and giving money to artists - all crucial to the growth of Cooking Vinyl
Analysis A quick reminder of the power of the tech biz vs the music biz Softbank just bought ARM for $32bn. For that amount, it could probably have bought all music ever.
News Randy Phillips to be named CEO of SFX Entertainment, say sources Exec left Global Entertainment in September after just seven months
News This Kobalt-managed fund has spent $200m on music rights in 5 years Kobalt Music Copyrights is doing big business in the music industry... but why?
News Nettwerk sells 30-year-old publishing catalogue to Kobalt investment fund Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride explains to MBW why he's sold - and where the money's going
Analysis Is YouTube really the music business’s biggest problem? StubHub and Live Nation are doing a roaring trade from secondary ticketing
News Pandora slips further behind Spotify as active listeners fall by 1.3m Active listeners now stand at 78.1m, while net losses averaging more than $1m a day
News Spotify is asking brands to bid for ads based on your individual tastes Programmatic advertising deal done with Rubicon and others
News Len Blavatnik: ‘I want to be in the music biz for a very long time’ Rarely quoted Warner owner marks five years of Access's involvement with WMG
News YouTube tests Donald Trump supporters with provocative new Music ads Google company launches ads on day one of the Republican National Convention
News So… do new artists really need to sign to a record label? Willard Ahdritz, Nick Raphael, Jacob Whitesides and more contribute to documentary
News Kobalt hires Tom Sansone as CFO as James Fitzherbert-Brockholes steps up to COO 'Fitz' has been a shareholder and director of Kobalt since its foundation in 2001
News Spotify raids BBC Radio for talent to boost UK playlist team Austin Daboh and others join George Ergatoudis at streaming company
News Warner pinches Ole Obermann from Sony to head up Business Development Respected exec has been with Sony for a decade