YouTube In The News

Rob Wells exits Universal Music Group

Exec has been with the major for the past 14 years

Vevo rival AdRev paid out $14.8m to music rights-holders in 2014

AdRev currently represents more than 7 million copyrights

MCN Rightster strikes music deal with Microsoft Lumia

#lumiamusic campaign operated in UK, Russia, France, Germany, Poland and Italy

BMI hires Warner/Chappell’s Sweeney as Global Policy head

Exec will fight to maximise global royalty collections for BMI

Vevo suffers blow as Universal signs windowing deal with Vessel

Universal follows Warner onto service

Her global hit’s been played millions of times on YouTube and Spotify. So why is it only earning this songwriter £4 a day?

'Where's my money gone!?'

Canada’s ole strikes deal with Cineflix Media

Canadian company will fund programme creator

Streaming soars in Finland – but music market down 14% in 2014

Ad-supported services shoot up, but downloads and CD suffer