Music Business News: Europe

Spotify is asking brands to bid for ads based on your individual tastes

Programmatic advertising deal done with Rubicon and others

Meet your host for The A&R Awards in November…

Fresh from working with David Brent, Doc Brown is joining our party

German recorded music market up 3.6% in H1 2016, CD sales down 9.6%

Streaming revenues up 88%

So… do new artists really need to sign to a record label?

Willard Ahdritz, Nick Raphael, Jacob Whitesides and more contribute to documentary

Jill Hollywood leaves Big Life to found Echo Beach Management

Jacknife Lee, Cam Blackwood and Ash Howes join Hollywood's new venture

London’s O2 Arena boss Rebecca Kane Burton quits AEG for Really Useful Group

Exec spent four-and-a-half years running iconic UK venue

Full list of Mercury Prize judges revealed for 2016 ceremony

Jamie Cullum, Naughty Boy, Jeff Smith, Clara Amfo and Jessie Ware on panel

Kobalt hires Tom Sansone as CFO as James Fitzherbert-Brockholes steps up to COO

'Fitz' has been a shareholder and director of Kobalt since its foundation in 2001