Google In The News

YouTube is now generating over $3m an hour from ads – more than $75m per day

Plus Sundar Pichai says he's pleased with YouTube's progress in subscriptions

From Universal’s scrubbed SPAC sell-off to Warner’s Doug Morris label buyout: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories of the past five days – and why they matter

75% of TikTok’s users say they discover new artists on the platform

New data sheds light on user music discovery on TikTok

Rob Jonas named CEO of trends and analytics platform P-MRC Data

P-MRC Data brings together MRC Data (formerly Nielsen Music), Alpha Data and Variety Business Intelligence

Musiio secures funding at $10m valuation as it signs Hipgnosis and expands product portfolio

Innovative search tech bags partnership with game-changing Hipgnosis following fresh injection of funds

TikTok was the most downloaded and highest grossing non-game app worldwide in H1 2021

App reached nearly 383m first-time installs and approximately $919.2m in consumer spending in H1 2021

Roblox sued for $200m+ by music publishers, who allege copyright infringement

David Israelite claims that Roblox maintains a library of hundreds of thousands of songs, including a portfolio of commercial tracks that he says the company has "refused to license"

YouTube’s TikTok rival Shorts expands into Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the UK and other regions

Rollout follows the platform's initial launch in India and the US