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TikTok offers cheaper ads in race against social media rivals Meta, YouTube and Twitter (report)

FT report cites advertisers, industry bodies and brands

Sir Lucian Grainge: Music needs a new streaming payout model… and we’re working on it.

Universal boss takes aim at streaming models that he says are being gamed by 'bad actors'

Revelator launches NFT payment infrastructure powered by Stripe

Company will integrate the NFT service into its existing Revelator Pro platform,

Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK and Frank Ocean to headline 2023 Coachella

Other acts include Gorillaz, Burna Boy, The Chemical Brothers, Blondie and Becky G

YouTube Shorts to split share of ad revenue between music rightsholders and creators from February 1

Shorts' revenue-sharing model replaces the YouTube Shorts Fund

The story of Trefuego’s TikTok hit 90mh – and Sony’s bid to scrub it from the internet

It was a TikTok viral hit with hundreds of millions of streams – before Sony issued a copyright takedown. But five months on, it won't go away.

Universal Music Group sued over its Spotify equity ownership by artist in class action lawsuit

Black Sheep says it should have received equity from UMG's holding in Daniel Ek's company

The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ overtakes Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ to become Spotify’s most-streamed track of all time

There's a new No. 1 in Spotify's all-time-most-streamed rankings