Alphabet, the parent company of Google, posted full year revenues of $402.8 billion in 2025, up 15% from $350.0bn in 2024, with net income for 2025 reaching $132.2bn, up 32% from $100.1bn in 2024. The company enjoyed a strong final quarter in 2025, with revenues of $113.8bn, up from $96.5bn in the same period of 2024. Net income for the quarter was up 32% to $34.5bn. For the full year, Alphabet's operating expenses, including cost of revenues, research and development, sales and marketing, and ...

Columbia's authors' society SAYCO (Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Colombia) has partnered with data specialists BMAT to handle VoD processing and music rights distribution. "Our partnership increases the number and accuracy of rights holders receiving royalties in the region, enabling faster, more efficient distributions, and also improving the transparency and consistency of the information delivered to each society in LATAM," said BMAT. "Together, we're setting a new standard for how V...

The Independent Music Publishers International Forum (IMPF) has issued a document listing key principles that collective management organisations should follow when licensing repertoire for Generative AI purposes. "Generative AI is rewriting the rules of the music ecosystem, at speed and scale we havenever seen before. For independent publishers and the songwriters and composers theyrepresent, this shift brings both opportunity and profound risk," reads the document.

IMPF, which represents h...