Tying together Taylor Swift, Spotify artist uploads and Vivendi’s hunt for a UMG investor
As you’ll know by now, Taylor Swift is most definitely not happy about the planned sale of her former label Big Machine to music mega...
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As you’ll know by now, Taylor Swift is most definitely not happy about the planned sale of her former label Big Machine to music mega...
Ever since the emergence of cryptocurrencies, most notably of course Bitcoin, they have been beset by a number of problems, but they all...
Highly recommended article in The Verge on the huge problems around metadata in our streaming-driven music world. As the headline says,...
AOL Time Warner wasn’t destined to be one of the worst business disasters ever, Facebook may have had things much tougher, and we all...
Over the last few years one name has kept popping up around any major corporate change in the music industry, Liberty Media. The firm...
When trying to make sense of the way things are and predict where we’re headed, it can be helpful to think about what nearly was. There...
I’ve been absolutely fascinated by this recent article about Amazon. Written by Zack Kanter who really does know his way around the...
So Disney have finally revealed more details about their upcoming subscription offer, Disney+. Not surprisingly, given the strength of...
Today’s news that the UK government is proposing an independent regulator for internet companies shows that government regulation is...
Tech unicorn Lyft, the Pepsi to Uber’s Coca Cola, listed on the NASDAQ last week. After an opening day surge of 8% on Friday, by Monday...
This is an excellent book that really digs deep into not only Spotify but much of the tech world it inhabits - data, platforms,...
Apple finally unveiled its long awaited video subscription service, Apple TV+, yesterday, as well as similar subscription services for...
More big public spats in the streaming world - kicked off by the US Copyright Royalty Board’s proposed rate increase for songwriters and...
Any newly qualified lawyer wondering about where they might like to specialise now has a clear answer: tech anti-trust. Get into that and...
So happy to see this story in The Verge that Apple has been commissioning top music designers on the quiet to create beautiful images for...
Very interested in this news from Pandora about a new ‘Stories’ feature for music and podcast creators to add, well, stories about their...
Just finished reading Eamonn Forde’s highly readable ‘The Final Days of EMI - Selling The Pig’ (the porcine reference comes from some of...
Tensions between Spotify and one of the world’s largest music companies have just spectacularly erupted into full view as the two fight...
Great interview in the Guardian today with serial overachiver Mark Ronson. One thing that really caught my eye, when he said this: “All...
All the breathless coverage on Marshmello’s in-game performance in the juggernaut that is Fortnite left me rather cold. Video gaming is...