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Amazon Music is already well along the podcasts road. Now reports suggest that it is set to take the next step into live content.

Amazon Music has announced a new partnership this week: a deal with video streaming service Disney+.

Omdia estimates Google shipped nearly 4.2m smart speakers in Q2 compared to Amazon’s 3.4m, which it pegs as 47.8% growth and 31.3% decline year-on-year.

Big things are afoot with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant: more than 50 new features unveiled yesterday at a conference for Alexa developers. There is a full roundup here on Amazon’s developer blog, but among...

Midia Research has published its latest estimates for the size of the global music streaming subscriptions market, with figures from the end of the first quarter of this year. No surprises who's leading: the company estimates...

Amazon recently announced that its annual ‘Prime Day’ event will be held on 21-22 June (yes, it’s not just one day), and now it has revealed plans for a high-profile music element. Prime Day Show will be a “three-part...

Twitch has been making its case for playing a positive role in the careers of a growing number of musicians: the recent reports it commissioned from Midia Research and from former Spotify chief economist Will Page for...

For their seventh studio album, Nature Always Wins, British alternative rock band Maxïmo Park released it via their management company’s record label (in partnership with PIAS). They teased the new album with a streaming...

The code leaks this weekend may have spoiled the surprise, but Apple Music is bringing higher quality music to its streaming service. But rather than charge extra for an 'HD' or 'HiFi' tier as rivals have done, Apple Music's...

As one of the biggest podcast production companies, you’d expect Wondery to be interested in the new subscription features offered by the likes of Apple and Spotify. Or would you? Wondery was, after all, recently acquired...

Sorry, there were no meaningful new Amazon Music statistics in Amazon’s quarterly financial results yesterday. 55 million users (“nearly all” of whom were paid subscribers) was the last official figure in January...

Amazon has published its latest annual report, and it includes some big new numbers from the company’s business. “We have more than 200 million Prime members worldwide,” wrote outgoing CEO Jeff Bezos in his letter...