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We've been writing about popular children's gaming platform Roblox for some time, including its desire to work with the music industry. It's not the only platform of its type. Manticore Games is the company behind Core,...

YouTube is keen to ensure that underage viewers aren't watching videos that are inappropriate. It's announced plans to "build on our approach of using machine learning to detect content for review, by developing and adapting...

The latest distributor to announce a partnership with TikTok is TuneCore, which hopes its latest promotion will tempt more artists into putting their music on the social app. Between 22 and 29 September, TuneCore artists...

UK artist trade body the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) has announced its latest crop of artist ambassadors. There are 19 of them, including some famous names: Bob Geldof, Aluna, Ghostpoet, Roni Size, Shaun Ryder,...

Some headlines overnight suggested that Amazon was launching its own exercise bike to take on Peloton, in partnership with a company called Echelon. You can see the press release that sparked those reports here: claiming...

We've written regularly about the activities of Shesaid·so, the community for women and gender minorities in the music industry, which was founded nearly six years ago. Now it has announced plans to launch a new community...

After a few weeks of badgering people to go back to work in company offices, the British government yesterday executed its latest u-turn of the Covid-19 crisis, telling them to work from home if they could again. The timing...

President Trump may have tentatively approved TikTok's deal to avoid a ban in the US, but what will the Chinese government make of it? Judging by state-media outlet China Daily's blistering editorial column this morning – title:...

There's a thriving trade in 'Bandcamp as the anti-Spotify' articles this year: the latest, from the Los Angeles Times, puts the 'anti-Spotify' phrase right in the headline. However, lower down there are some interesting...

Q&A and Platoon are two of the most interesting new artist-focused music companies to emerge in recent years, and we had their founders Troy Carter and Denzyl Feigelson in conversation at Music Ally's Sandbox Summit Global...

If you don't know Atlanta artist K Camp, it's highly likely you know his track 'Lottery (Renegade)', or at least the 15-second clip of it that blew up on TikTok early in 2020, in turn sending the track zooming back up the...

American TikTokers have been grappling with the existential (in app terms) question of what they'd do if the app was banned. Now imagine the rumpus if Facebook and Instagram were suddenly unavailable across the whole of Europe. It...