New Year, New Features From OpenPlay to Benefit Music Companies

Designed from the start as a ‘different kind of enterprise software company,’ OpenPlay connects practices and methodologies from the startup ecosystem and applies them to the challenges faced by major, multi-national companies.

Spotify paid more than $9bn to the music industry in 2023

It turns out Spotify wasn’t quite done with announcing big numbers this week after publishing its latest financial results on Tuesday.

Africa-focused music streaming service Mdundo hits 30.8M monthly active users

This marks a 16% increase from June 30, 2023, when the company’s MAU stood at 26.6 million, and puts the company well on track to achieve its goal of 50 million MAUs by 2025, the company said on Wednesday (February 7).

Why Music Search is So Complex, and How AI is Helping

Ahead of our upcoming webinar on the benefits of AI search technology, we sat down with AIMS API’s co-founder Einar Helde to discuss the complexities of music search and the game changing tools that are transforming workflows for music licensees and licensors alike.

PPL’s annual distribution in 2023 was biggest in its history

UK collective management organisation PPL has announced its 2023 financials, and it’s the latest example of a CMO breaking its own records.

2023 TikTok data report: 85% of videos on TikTok contain music

Why does it matter how many videos online contain music? Because music is copyrighted content and has to be licensed and paid for. When users include music in their videos – especially when those videos contribute to revenue – they are benefitting from someone else’s work.

Half of the UK's most-streamed artists are from London, new research finds

The findings have been attributed to the city’s “diverse and vibrant cultural scene, world-class recording studios, and a long history of fostering musical communities”.

With ‘superfans’ in their eyes, could the major record companies now rally behind Spotify in its ‘app tax’ battle with Apple?

Unfortunately for Spotify, the death of Apple’s ‘app tax’ was rather prematurely celebrated by Daniel Ek’s company. Instead, Spotify now says that it has no choice but to continue to pay Apple’s 30% ‘app tax’, rather than pushing its users to alternative means of paying for subscriptions on Apple devices.

Radio's Pillar-To-Pillar Dashboard Dilemma

In this expanded display space how will broadcast radio – once the center ring of entertainment in cars – even get noticed? 

Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus and Quincy Jones join strategic funding round for royalty platform, Salt

Salt, a UK-based royalty processing firm described as the “music society back-office SaaS platform for processing and distributing rightsholder royalties” has raised a new round of funding.

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