Michael Nash In The News

Why ingesting 100,000 tracks a day may not prove sustainable for Spotify’s business in the long-term.

Why it's worth keeping an eye on Spotify's hosting costs as over 100k tracks a day hit streaming platforms

Sir Lucian Grainge on the dilution of the majors’ music on streaming platforms, TikTok’s future and more

Grainge participated in a Q&A on Universal Music Group's Q3 earnings call last week

YouTube says it paid the music industry over $6bn in the past year – with around $2bn coming from UGC

Right now, YouTube and Spotify appear to be keeping pace with one another

Warner Music, Universal Music sued for patent infringement by Blue Spike over MQA encoding process

The cases against the two music giants is in relation to their partnership with MQA Ltd.

Sir Lucian Grainge on Universal’s new deal with Meta – and his belief that investment banks don’t ‘have the skill-sets or ability to exploit music rights’

Grainge was joined by Michael Nash and Boyd Muir on a call with analysts last week

Universal inks strategic global partnership with music licensing tech startup Songclip

Songclip closed an $11m funding round in March 2021

Universal named as exclusive launch partner for AI-driven music platform that helps dementia patients

Vera app was developed and launched by Music Health

Carol Ding appointed Senior Vice President & Head of Digital and Commercial at Universal Music Greater China

Exec will be based in Beijing