News Vivendi expands ticketing operation in Europe and the US with LiveStyle deal Ticketing and technology company Paylogic acquired
News WMA opens Melbourne office to be headed by Jess Mills Mills moves to Australia from WMA LA where she was Head of Social for the Pacific region
News SoundCloud posted a $82m loss in 2016, but took on $170m in investment last year New CEO says company "has never been healthier financially"
Analysis Windowing on Spotify is finally happening – but is it worth it for the labels? Spotify gained over $300m from its new deals with labels last year
Analysis Universal employed 7,912 people last year – its biggest headcount in a decade Nearly half of company's employees were women, with 43% of managerial positions taken by female execs
News Spotify acquires mechanical licensing tech platform Loudr Loudr specializes in automatically identifying composer data
News Reach Music extends publishing agreement with Ice T Deal expands upon a 10-year relationship that covers over 300 compositions
News Pan-European management body EMMA launches Collective body will represent over 800 managers across Europe, and another 600 worldwide
Interviews ‘Artists are telling other artists about us.’ How Platoon is discovering huge breaking artists - and mystifying the major labels
News Music Support launches Recovery Specialist training program in the UK Event coming to London next month - and MBW is sponsoring two bursaries
News Oliver Schusser named global head of Apple Music Cupertino giant confirms that it's topped 40m subscribers
News EP Entertainment launches Latin division, hires Angel Zamora as MD Zamora was most recently Music Producer for the Latin American Music Awards
News Music Modernization Act passed by US House Judiciary Committee Bill now awaits full approval by the House of Representatives
News Carianne Marshall named COO of Warner/Chappell Music 'She’s passionate, dynamic, and forward-thinking; songwriters love her; and she has forged great relationships across the industry'
News GEMA revenue up 5% in 2017 to reach €1.07bn Revenues up by €49 million thanks to a rise in income from the public performance of music, radio and TV
News Spotify launches $12.99-per-month bundle with Hulu in the US Companies build on $4.99-per-month offer to students launched last year
News Former Live Nation exec Tim Chambers joins Tixserve Board The new B2B digital ticket fulfilment solution recently landed €250,000 in Enterprise Ireland funding
News Sound City+ reveals 2018 conference line-up Alan McGee and Vince Power announced for In Conversation interviews