YouTube In The News

From Universal’s feud with TikTok to YouTube Music’s 100m subscribers… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…

As YouTube Music hits 100m paid subscribers, Lyor Cohen says the platform ‘cares profoundly about the health of the music industry’

YouTube has surpassed 100 million paid YouTube Music and Premium subscribers worldwide

78% of small-to-midsize businesses in the US currently misuse personal streaming accounts to play music to their customers. It’s costing the music industry $1.38 billion per year.

Ola Sars highlights an important opportunity in publicly-played music for rightsholders

TikTok’s biggest headache in its fight with Universal Music Group is UMG’s publishing catalog (and 2 other observations on the feud the whole music industry is talking about)

What's really going on behind the scenes of music's big Grammy Week fall-out

USTR’s ‘Notorious Markets’ Report doesn’t mention AI-voice cloning, despite RIAA’s efforts

The USTR report identifies a 'complex ecosystem' of online services that enable digital piracy

With India in the running to overtake the US as the biggest music streaming market (by volume), Believe swoops for local ‘powerhouse’ catalog

Believe has also acquired WHM's YouTube channel

Riot Games cuts 530 roles globally as it ‘more tightly integrates esports, music, and entertainment’ with its games

Riot Games is laying off around 11% of its workforce

From Spotify’s ‘superfan clubs’ to Apple Music’s spatial audio royalty boost… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…