Music Business News: Ireland

Spotify to increase some subscription prices in the US, Europe and the UK

Premium Duo, Premium Family and Student plans to go up in the UK and Europe, while the US sees Family Plan increase

SoundCloud inks deal with AdsWizz for exclusive ad sales representation in 14 European markets

AdsWizz Marketplace reaches over 100m unique devices globally every month

New Spotify format allows podcasters to place songs between talk segments in shows

Premium listeners will hear full tracks as part of these shows and Free tier users will hear 30-second music previews

Business Management firm LIVE WIRE expands into Dublin

Company was founded by music industry veteran Alan McEvoy in 1998

Spotify expands Discover Weekly brand sponsorship into 9 EMEA markets

'Now advertisers can own the discover moment on Spotify.'

Spotify enables more artists & businesses to run audio ads as self-serve ‘Ad Studio’ moves out of beta and expands into 18 new markets

'Ad Studio marks the start of a new chapter.'

YouTube adds concert listings to Official Artist Channel videos in the UK and Ireland

Tickets can be purchased via ticketing partners, Ticketmaster, See Tickets and Eventbrite

Live Nation-MCD merger provisionally cleared by UK competition authority

The CMA has been investigating the proposed takeover of Ireland-based promoter MCD