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beatBread taps Tracy Maddux as Interim Chief Executive Officer

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beatBread, the funding platform for independent labels and musicians, has appointed former CD Baby CEO Tracy Maddux as the company's Interim Chief Executive Officer. Maddux succeeds Peter Sinclair, beatBread's late co-founder and CEO who passed away on August 23 in Los Angeles, following a short illness, aged 50.
"Maddux has been appointed as a long-term advisor to the beatBread board, and will lead the company on an interim basis while a global search for a new permanent leader continues," said...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

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Key figures — Week 46, 2025

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$1 trillion
That’s the estimated annual value of the online video and traditional TV markets by 2030, according to a recent report from Omdia. Linear TV will account for 11% of the total while ad-supported online streaming will be the main segment at 51%. 
$416 billion
That’s Apple's revenues for fiscal year 2024-2025, ending September 30, 2025, up 6.4% compared to the prior year, with record revenues of $101.5 billion in the last quarter, and a profit of $26.3bn for the quarter, according to th...

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Quotes of the week — Week 46, 2025

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“...click...click...click..."By Paul McCartney in a bonus track added to the silent album 'Is This What We Want?', which features more than 1,000 artists such as Hans Zimmer, Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn, Jamiroquai and Kate Bush, released to highlight the dangers artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the creative industries. Called 'Bonus Track', McCartney's contribution is a two-minute 45 seconds recording of an empty studio featuring a series of clicks. McCartney's...

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Main stories  — Week 46, 2025

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These are some of the stories published by Creative Industries News in the past few weeks:
COPYRIGHT & REGULATION> European Commission sets February 6, 2026 as the new deadline to rule on the proposed acquisition of Downtown by UMG> Music sector urges Kazakhstan to address the weaknesses in the country’s system of collective rights management> Common Crawl removes over two million news articles from its database following action from Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN> Australia government rejec...

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