News YouTube’s TikTok rival Shorts arrives in the US Launch partners include Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Merlin, 300 Entertainment, Kobalt
News Warner Music Group joins $52.5m Series C funding round in gaming UGC platform Overwolf Company has raised over $75m to date
News Big Hit Global CEO Lenzo Yoon on K-Pop, BTS, their fans and the future of the global entertainment industry Big Hit Entertainment Global CEO Lenzo Yoon delivered a speech this week for SXSW Online
News Another nine-figure music industry acquisition is coming… and it’s Brazilian MBW understands that Som Livre is attracting interest at a $250m-plus valuation
News Sentric signs Tom Speight to exclusive songwriting agreement Singer/songwriter has more than 160m streams across all DSPs
Analysis News Hipgnosis reveals how it values songs (and that its catalog is worth slightly more than it originally forecast) New disclosures show that Hipgnosis' assets were earning 0.4% more than company predicted they would when it acquired them
News Abbey Road Studios acquires remote production start-up Audiomovers Strategic move marks Abbey Road's entrance into the remote music production space
News NFTs for copyrights: Why non-fungible tokens could transform who gets paid from music rights, and how Ditto Music's Bluebox project is selling partial ownership of two copyrights wrapped up into NFTs this week
News MBW’s Weekly Roundup: Epidemic Sound, Songtradr, IFPI, TuneCore, NFTs The biggest music industry stories of the week, all in one place
News Reach Music buys 50% interest in song catalog of Judas Priest’s Glenn Tipton Acquisition covers Tipton's songwriting catalog of almost 200 songs
News TuneCore launches operations in Latin America, headed up by Bruno Duque The move follows the launch of the company's operations in Africa last month
News Def Jam to launch Hillman Grad Records joint venture with Emmy-winning actor Lena Waithe Joining the label to sign and develop talent are music executives Tebs Maqubela and Albert Cooke
News Spanish authors’ society SGAE re-admitted to CISAC following reforms SGAE was temporarily kicked out of CISAC in May 2019
Interviews ‘Streaming data files are getting bigger and bigger – they are not manageable manually anymore.’ Reprtoir's CEO, Dominique Rottet, explains how his company's software is benefitting labels and music publishers
News Geoff Sawyer, Red Bull’s ex-Director of Global Music Services, joins UTA as agent in games division Sawyer to foster collaborations between music clients and gaming industry