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Shutterstock acquires stock video marketplace Pond5 for $210m, including a library of 1.6m royalty-free music tracks

Pond5's customers include the likes of Netflix, Disney, NBC, BBC and Discovery Channel

Splice Chief Music Officer Maria Egan exits, joins Riot Games as Global Head of Music & Events

Egan was previously Chief Music Officer at Splice since 2020

From The Weeknd’s Universal deal to Spotify’s Q1 results: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter

Spotify’s share price crash is a shocker for Daniel Ek. It won’t have best pleased music’s biggest companies.

MBW crunches the numbers on Universal and Sony's ownership stakes in Daniel Ek's green machine

Talenthouse acquires creative freelancer platform Creative Commission

Talenthouse has also hired the team who built the data-driven marketing software Sponsokit

No Netflix problems here: Spotify added 2m net subscribers in Q1 – despite cutting off 1.5 million subs in Russia

Spotiify beats guidance on various key metric for its business – when you factor in Russia – including users and subscribers

Spotify faces its most crucial earnings call yet. Here are the 3 difficult questions MBW would be asking.

After Netflix's shocker of a Q1, all eyes are on Spotify's equivalent fiscal announcement. Here's what MBW would ask Daniel Ek.

Big Sync Music expands in Latin America, led by Patricia Portaro

Portaro named Head of Music Supervision, LATAM