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Twitch to lose 400 staff as part of latest Amazon layoffs

Twitch is laying off 400 employees as part of wider cuts announced yesterday by its parent company Amazon.
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Amazon Music bags six George Ezra tracks as spatial originals

Music streaming services love original content, and some of them also love spatial audio. George Ezra is thus in a sweet spot with Amazon.
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Amazon Music adds ‘Sleep Science’ playlist from AI music startup Endel

AI music firm Endel has found a new frontier for its sleep tracks: Amazon Music. It has launched a 'Sleep Science' playlist with the DSP.
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Report: Amazon Music is rivalling Spotify for US listeners

We retired the 'dark horse' metaphor for Amazon Music a few years ago: the scale and growth of its music services is well understood.
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Amazon Music is new lead sponsor of The Ivors songwriting awards

There's a changing of the guard in the sponsorship roster for prestigious songwriting awards The Ivors: Apple Music out, Amazon Music in.
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Amazon’s Alexa Fund invests in synthetic-reality startup Superplastic

One of the companies in the synthetic reality space, Superplastic, has just raised a $20m funding round led by Amazon's Alexa Fund.
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Apple and Amazon publish their financial results for Q4 2022

It’s peak financial results season, with Apple and Amazon announcing their latest numbers yesterday, with mixed performances.
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Twitch says its streamers earned more than $1bn in 2022

There's a big figure in the latest blog post from Twitch's chief product officer Tom Verrilli and chief monetization officer Mike Minton.
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Amazon Music Unlimited prices are rising in the US and UK

It turns out that Amazon raising the price of its Music Unlimited subscriptions isn't just a Japanese thing.
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You Me At Six get some promotional welly from Amazon and TikTok

Operating in the streaming environment in 2023 is a case of balancing promotional demands from streaming and social media services.
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Amazon raises its Music Unlimited subscription prices in Japan

Japan has been one of Amazon’s focus markets for its music business, so the price increase is interesting news.
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Amazon Music shows off 360 Reality Audio music in cars at CES

Hi-res and surround-sound music is one of the key points of competition between Amazon Music and Apple Music.