Tag: brazil

Hot on the heels of its partnership with MTN in Uganda, Tidal has announced another telco deal – this time in Brazil. It’s working with Vivo there, with ‘exclusive subscription offers’ for the telco’s 75 million...

We’ve written about the data-saving apps launched for emerging markets by the likes of YouTube and Facebook, with Instagram also now testing the idea. Now you can add another digital service to the list: Spotify. The...

Music Ally’s latest country profile focuses on Brazil, including an interview with Deezer’s country manager Bruno Vieira. He expresses optimism about the growth not just of music-streaming in Brazil, but of people...

Anitta and her team are doing a pretty good job already of building her audience through online videos: The Brazilian singer’s YouTube channel has 5.1 million subscribers and just under 1.7bn views so far. Now she has...

When the music industry has talked about what appears in Google’s search results, it has usually involved complaints about links to piracy sites. However, Google is expanding an initiative that could be much more positive...

Media group Bertelsmann, the parent company of music firm BMG, is setting its sights on emerging markets in the years ahead. The company is planning to double its investment in “growth regions” like China, India and Brazil...

Vivendi’s latest quarterly financial results provide more data on the growth of streaming income for Universal Music Group, continuing the group’s key trend of 2016. Overall, UMG’s revenues for the first nine months...

Instagram has announced that it now has more than 500,000 active advertisers on its platform. Strong growth, given that Facebook’s photo and video-sharing app only opened up its ads platform a year ago, and grew to 200,000...

Streaming raced ahead last year to offset download declines in the country that hosted the 2016 Rio olympics. The overall market declined due to plunging CD sales, but with streaming heralding the first time that legal music...

BMG is setting up shop in Brazil, after acquiring the assets of local publisher Basement Brazil. Its founder John Telfer will now be managing director of BMG Brazil, based in São Paolo. He described the launch as “one...