Pandora In The News

The music business’s biggest stories of the past week: Universal, Vivendi, Sony, Apple, Troy Carter

Here's what caught our attention over the past seven days...

Universal and Sony are now turning over more than $500k from streaming every hour

And they're both generating over $1m an hour from all formats...

Three years ago, Pandora had more users than Spotify. Now it’s over 100m behind.

Total active users on the US-based platform fell yet again to 71.4m in Q2

SoundExchange paid out $399m to artists and labels in the first half of 2018, up 17.4% year-on-year

Organization distributed over $208m to artists and labels in first half of 2018

YouTube ups Victoria Campoamor to Global Head of Publishing Strategy and Operations

Exec will relocate from London to New York for worldwide role

Is Instagram about to become the music industry’s new best friend?

The Facebook-owned social media platform has transformed itself - and artists are noticing

Spotify is worth more than $33bn, as stock price hits another all-time high

Market value of Pandora has also soared over the past three months

Streaming audio service TuneIn mulls sale

Firm was valued at $500 million after raising $50m last year