The German recorded music sector posted revenues of €903.8 million euros for the first six months of this year, up 12.4% over the same period of...
Sony Pictures Entertainment has completed the $1.175 billion acquisition of anime channel Crunchyroll from AT&T through Funimation Global Group, the joint venture between SPE and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)'s subsidiary Aniplex. AT&T, which...
London-listed music assets management company Hipgnosis Songs Fund has acquired a catalogue of songs from British songwriter and performer Christine McVie, better known for being part of the band Fleetwood...
San Francisco, CA-based MakersPlace, a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace for digital art, has secured $30 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Bessemer...
Australian independent digital distributor GYROstream is launching music distribution platform DistroDirect as a white label B2B (Business to Business) and SaaS (Software as a Service) solution. The company said DistroDirect...
Universal Music Publishing Group's Universal Production Music has merged into one single entity two of its US production music companies, Dallas-based FirstCom Music and Santa Monica-based Universal Production Music. The merged unit will...
Bittorrent sites remain "by far the most popular protocol for illegal use" of content, according to the Netherlands' anti-piracy organisation BREIN. In its Annual Report 2020, the BREIN...
SiriusXM, the audio distribution platform which includes satellite audio service SiriusXM and online streaming platform Pandora, posted revenue of $2.16 billion in the second quarter of 2021, a 15%...
New York-based independent music company Reservoir Media has started trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market on July 29, following the closing of its previously announced business combination with publicly traded special purpose...
Warner Music Group's independent label and artist services division ADA Worldwide has opened shop in Russia and in Italy while strengthening its international team in Central Europe, India,...