Tag: kids

AI music startup Popgun launched its Splash music-making app on gaming platform Roblox in May, and saw it used by more than one million players in its first 20 days. How's it going now? Still strong. "Wow, over 21M...

There's been a changing of the guard at the top of YouTube's lifetime views chart. Sorry, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, but you've been outgunned by 'Baby Shark'. The official video for the world's toothiest earworm now...

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...

Warner Music Group's Arts Music division has been steadily growing its catalogue of kids and family music, with partners including Sesame Workshop, Mattel and Build-a-Bear Workshop. Its latest deal is with a popular YouTube...

Spotify may have a separate app for kids, but it's far from the only music streaming service to be thinking about how children and their families listen. Apple Music, for example, said yesterday that its 'Kids and Family'...

Last month, Music Ally took part in the BPI and ERA's New Kids on the Block online event, looking at children's digital habits and what they mean for music. Research company Kids Insights produced a report for the event...

Lead: we report back on our recent New Kids On The Block: Insight Into A New Generation online conference that we ran in conjunction with UK trade bodies the BPI and ERA, drawing out the 10 key lessons from the different...

Last week, Music Ally interviewed the global head of music for gaming platform Roblox, as he declared that the company was "open for business" to work with artists and labels. Now we've got some new figures to show what...

"Who in the room knows Roblox?" asked WMG's chief innovation officer for recorded music Scott Cohen at the NY:LON Connect conference in January. Only a few people put their hands up in response. "It’s a gaming platform...

Sony Music UK launched its children's label Magic Star last year, and has since been steadily building a roster of music for kids, not to mention an Alexa skill to get them to wash their hands properly. Its latest signing...

Millions of children already know who Marshmello is, thanks to the dance star's concert in Fortnite in February 2019, which drew a crowd of 10.7 million people. Now he's setting his sights even younger with the launch...

People in the music business (us included) bang on about Fortnite a lot, but we think Roblox is another gaming platform that should be less under the radar for our industry. A new report by children's media research firm...