Posts by Tim Ingham

Needless to say, Warner does not love Ladegaillerie's attempt to bypass the "fairness opinion" part of the acquisition process

NMPA offers to help indie pubs take legal action against ByteDance's platform

JP Morgan analyst says the likelihood of a Blackstone takeover just increased, thanks to Shot Tower's re-valuation of HSF

Yet Ladegaillerie and co have a trump card up their sleeve

UMG and Sir Lucian Grainge today doubled down on their borderline disgust with the licensing offer/s they've received from TikTok in recent months

UMG EVP, Boyd Muir, confirms that UMG needs to cut costs to hit the mid-20s EBITDA margin target it promised investors

Surveying the landscape of a battle between music's biggest rightsholder and ByteDance's video juggernaut

It's a surprising claim from the ByteDance company...

Fatehi will remain signed to T-Series, the Indian music label and movie studio, for her Bollywood projects.

MBW's sources suggest this one is moving fast, with many sides keen to make a swift and potentially substantial deal

Earlier this month, Robert Kyncl, CEO of Warner Music Group, confirmed that WMG is in active discussions to sell two of Complex's long-time rivals

Looking underneath the hood of today's big story in the music business

Denis Ladegaillerie, founder and CEO of Believe, makes statement in reaction to UMG and ByteDance's public falling-out

MBW crunches the numbers from Sony Corp's latest quarterly earnings announcement

EQT says it expects to be 30 to 35% invested in Believe should takeover bid succeed