News Deezer launches in Middle East & North Africa with exclusive Rotana catalog The launch follows Deezer's exclusive digital distribution deal with Rotana Group earlier this year
News Eventbrite signs video distribution partnership with YouTube The integration will allow users to purchase tickets via Official Artist Channels across YouTube
News Kirit Joshi upped to Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer at Sony In this role, Joshi will oversee SME’s worldwide Information Security and Technology (IS&T) operations
News SoundCloud inks deal with Dubset to clear remixes on its platform The Dubset partnership will kick off later this year with an invite-only beta program for individual remixes
News SoundCloud Partners with Native Instruments, Serato, Virtual DJ, DEX3, Mixvibes and Hercules The integrations will begin rolling out in 2019
News SiriusXM makes home entertainment move with Amazon Echo partnership As part of the partnership, Amazon Echo users get their first three months of SiriusXM for free
News Ticketmaster acquires blockchain ticketing company Upgraded The company uses blockchain technology to prevent ticket fraud
News Merlin expands New York and London offices with new hires Merlin recently celebrated its 10th anniversary
News Jason Ellis promoted to Managing Director of Positiva Records Ellis will continue in his role as A&R Director for Virgin EMI Records
News Spotify now giving away 60 days of Premium in the UK, Australia for free Aggressive promotion hits key territories
Analysis Fortnite is a video game phenomenon. The music business could learn a lot from its success. Innovative pricing and content approaches are leading to massive revenues for Epic Games title
News APRA AMCOS posts record annual revenue of A$420.2 million Income generated from digital sources surpassed broadcast revenue for the first time, accounting for A$134.5m - nearly a third of all revenue.
News Downtown signs multi-territory music publishing deal with John Butler Downtown will administer more than 100 compositions as part of the deal
News Kelli Turner appointed President & COO of SESAC Turner previously served as Executive Vice President of Operations, Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer
News Spotify acquires minority stake in DistroKid, enabling artists to upload to multiple services… from Spotify Streaming service takes passive position in aggregator which works with 250,000 artists
News UK’s Music Managers Forum teams up with YouTube to launch Accelerator Programme for Managers Successful applicants will receive grants of up to £15,000 and professional training
News Hearo.fm launches cryptocurrency that will be integrated with new music streaming service Tune.fm Hearo.fm's cryptocurrency is called the JAM token
News Music rights-holders lose $2.65bn annually because businesses are using personal streaming accounts The study was carried out by Nielsen Music