News NFT platform SoundMint raises $1.7m led by the Sandbox parent Animoca Brands SoundMint says that its NFTs are musical compositions derived from stems
News From Cinq Music raising $100m to Midem’s return in 2023 : It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
News Ankur Patel named Chief Business Officer at Venice Music Patel joins Venice from the music tech company Splice
Interviews Luis Sánchez, CEO of AfinArte: ‘Latin artists are now global artists.’ MBW's Trailblazers series kicks off with one of Mexico's premier independent music entrepreneurs
News Warner Music Asia inks strategic partnership with Thailand-based indie label What the Duck Deal sees Warner Music Asia add Bangkok-based Valentina Ploy to its roster of artists
Analysis News With Netflix losing subscribers, is music’s own streaming party over? MBW founder Tim Ingham analyzes Netflix's surprise Q1 2022 downturn, and the impact it might have on Spotify
News Izabela Ciszek-Podziemska promoted to General Manager of Warner Music South East Europe Ciszek-Podziemska previously held the role of Head of Business Development, South East Europe at Warner Music
News Big Sync Music expands in Latin America, led by Patricia Portaro Portaro named Head of Music Supervision, LATAM
News ByteDance launches new music streaming service in China App is called Qishui Yinyue, and its catalog currently features 10m music tracks
News Fan funding platform Corite enters Web3 partnership with superstar DJ and producer Alan Walker Walker has amassed over 50bn audio and video streams
News Confirmed: Deezer, with a $1.16bn valuation, is going public via merger with SPAC in France It was rumored last week – now it's a done deal
Interviews News Amy Thomson: How I’d Fix The Music Industry In 3 Easy Steps Hipgnosis' Chief Catalog Officer, Amy Thomson, on what she thinks needs to change in today's music biz
News Merlin strikes partnership with South Korean streaming app FLO FLO was launched in 2018 by South Korea-headquartered Dreamus Company
News Seven years after its IPO collapsed, Deezer is in talks to to go public again – via a SPAC Len Blavatnik's Access took control of Deezer via an equity acquisition in 2016
Interviews ‘For music rightsholders, Web3 is an opportunity for extraordinary growth.’ Tuned Global MD, Con Raso, tells MBW about the company's expansion into Web3, and its future plans