YouTube’s Plan to Win the Music Streaming Wars; Arab Music Industry New Target for Global Streaming Giants; Spotify's Sales Pitch to Advertisers

November 25 · Issue #1076 · View online

Inside YouTube’s plan to win the music-streaming wars

YouTube has always been important to the music business. Now, with YouTube Music, it’s trying to build a music universe Spotify and Apple can’t touch.

Arab music industry new target for global streaming giants

www.aljazeera.com – Share

Online platforms to invest in emerging markets in the MENA region to bring the outmoded business into digital era.

Kegelman’s Spotify Puts Multi-Platform User Data To Work For Advertisers

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Reach people as they cook, study, travel, work out, stream what they love.“ That is Spotify’s sale pitch to advertisers.

Musicians tell MPs streaming payments are "threatening the future of music"

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Radiohead’s Ed O'Brien, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Nadine Shah and Gomez’ Tom Gray have told MPs that streaming payments are unfair.

Soundtrack Unlimited B2B On-Demand Music Streaming Helps Artists Get Paid

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Soundtrack Your Brand business-to-business (B2B) music streaming company, formerly Spotify Business, today introduced Soundtrack Unlimited, the world’s first on-demand B2B music streaming product offering businesses audio services comparable to Spotify and Apple Music.

Spotify has 300 million users. It wants more of them to listen to podcasts.

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Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen tells Peter Kafka about how her parent company Spotify plans to turn music listeners into podcast devotees.

Warner Music Revenues Flat for Fiscal 2020

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Warner Music Group, which went public earlier this year, reported revenues that were essentially flat for its fiscal 2020.

Could Epidemic Sound really be worth more than $1bn?

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How Epidemic might pitch investors on its catalog, rather than its company.

SPOTX Fuels Video Programmatic Growth for POPS Worldwide

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SpotX partners with POPS Worldwide to activate video ad serving and programmatic activation across its OTT channels in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. SpotX will be the leading supply side partner and ad server to power their video monetization and scale advertising reach through unified auctions, audience activation, smart ad breaks and real-time data.

Audio Movers, Jack Trip Software Lets Musicians Play Together During Pandemic

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Since the pandemic started, musicians have been trying to find ways to play together in real time online. Two platforms — Audio Movers and Jack Trip — offer promise.

Santa Came Early This Year With This Spotify Black Friday Deal

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If you’ve been on the fence about joining Spotify, now’s the time to make your move.

Audoo raises £5.2m from investors including Björn Ulvaeus

musically.com – Share

British startup Audoo has raised a Series A funding round of £5.2m (around $6.9m) to continue developing and rollout out its technology.

Is streaming killing the music charts?

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Over 130 million people have a Spotify Premium subscription. This nation of streamers is not only evidence for how important music is, it shows how blatantly commodified it has become.

SoundCloud’s revenues jumped 37% to $166m in 2019 – and it’s just posted its first ever profitable quarter

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Firm’s $10m acquisition of Repost Network last year appears to be paying off.

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

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Monday, November 23, 2020

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Thursday, November 19, 2020

November 19 · Issue #1072 · View online Platform & Stream Bandcamp finally gets in on livestreaming music www.engadget.com – Share But as much as I miss live music, the musicians who actually play

YouTube Launches Audio Ads, Ad-Targetable Music Lineups; Spotify Adds Built-in Podcast Playlist Creation Tool; Caribbean Music the Focus of CariStream

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Amazon Music Launches Podcasts in Mexico, Brazil; Tencent Music Invests in Wave; Dolly Parton, Pandora Set for Live Holiday Special

Snapchat Buys Voisey to Enter the Music Market; SiriusXM Expands Podcast Lineup; Spotify Opens a Marketplace. for Canvas

Songfluencer Wants to Predict the Next TikTok Hit; Waze Brings Amazon Music Into App; Shazam Surpasses 200M Monthly Active Users Worldwide

Are Rights Holders Missing Twitch's Real Value?; Bandcamp + Livestreaming Music; SoundCloud Rolls Out Profile Verification

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