YouTube In The News

From UMG’s $1m an hour, to Paul McCartney’s music streaming crusade: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up

The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place

Songtradr acquires Pretzel, which provides DMCA-proof music for Twitch and YouTube livestreamers

It's Songtradr's third acquisition in the past six months alone

TikTok users watch the app for an average of 89 minutes per day – and there’s 732m of them worldwide

Leaked pitch deck reveals a slew of the Bytedance app's key numbers in 2021

‘Popularity is by far the biggest determinant of success in streaming, just as it has been for every recorded format before it.’

The BPI's Geoff Taylor puts across his point of view on the UK's current streaming inquiry

Germany’s recorded music revenues grew 9% to $2bn last year, thanks to streaming’s lockdown boom

Streaming surges ahead in Germany, as CD continues to slide

T-Series joins IPRS, marking a ‘watershed moment in the Indian music industry’

T-Series owns the world's biggest YouTube channel with over 178 million subscribers

Julie Greenwald, Sylvia Rhone and Susan Wojcicki tell Lyor Cohen about ‘redefining male-dominated industries’

Susan Wojcicki (CEO of YouTube), Sylvia Rhone (Chairman and CEO of Epic Records) and Julie Greenwald (Chairman and COO of Atlantic Records) recently joined YouTube’s Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen for a conversation about leadership and “redefining male-dominated industries”. The conversation, which was shared today (March 30) in Cohen’s latest industry newsletter, covered topics … Continued

Warner-owned hip-hop media platform HipHopDX expands into Asia

HipHopDX Asia will be led by Eddy Lim