YouTube In The News

From Tencent Music’s 250K song takedowns to Sony and WMG’s calendar Q1 results… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up

The biggest headlines from the past few days...

Vietnam orders crackdown on music piracy as US tariff pressure mounts

Vietnam’s government has ordered a sweeping nationwide campaign targeting online piracy, with music streaming and distribution among its priorities.

News

Believe partners with Google to offer AI music creation tool Flow Music to its artists

Google says that Flow Music can help artists with lyrics, experimenting with melodies or genres, and creating new instruments.

Interviews

‘Many still view Thailand as a domestic-only market. In truth, there are many talented Thai songwriters with strong potential for global success.’

MBW's World Leaders series speaks to Tatchara Longprasert, General Manager of Sony Music Publishing Thailand

Analysis

From Wine to Diamonds, Every Major Consumer Industry Protects You From Fakes. Why Doesn’t Music?

Music supervisor and Catalog founder Frederic Schindler argues it's time for standardized 'Music Facts' labels – modeled on food nutrition panels – to make the origin of every track in the supply chain visible to consumers.

Analysis

On… Universal, Spotify, Virgin, and the ‘leakage’ causing analyst discomfort.

This article orginally appeared in Tim Ingham’s latest ‘Tim’s Take’ email, issued exclusively to MBW+ subscribers.

News

Udio admits to scraping YouTube audio for AI training in answer to Sony Music lawsuit

Udio admitted that its models were trained with “a vast amount of different kinds of sound recordings” gathered from publicly available sources.

News

YouTube creators hit by music copyright claims can now replace tracks with AI – at the touch of a button

The update, announced via YouTube's Creator Insider channel on Friday (May 1), adds a new "Create" button to the existing "Replace Song" tool in YouTube Studio on desktop.