Facebook In The News

Charles Caldas to step down as CEO of Merlin at end of 2019

Caldas to exit role after more than 12 years

Merlin paid indie labels and distributors $845m in the past year, showing strong growth

Merlin has now paid indies more than $2bn from digital services since being founded

The major record labels are signing over 50 artists a month. Is that too many?

The majors are inking deals with over 600 artists every year

Snapchat in talks with majors to expand music use in posts – report

Negotiations ongoing according to Wall Street Journal

Troy Carter’s Q&A hires Spotify and Facebook veterans Phillip Eubanks and Marc Hemeon

Execs join as Head of Design and Chief Operating Officer, respectively

Event organizers can now sell tickets through Facebook via Eventbrite

700 million people use Facebook Events each month

Instagram’s new e-commerce features could transform music marketing – but only if the record industry is willing to change

Should record labels start approaching Instagram differently?

Payola 2.0: The native ad model for streaming music?

Feature.fm President David Porter on why 'sponsored songs' will be big business for streaming