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Triller music deals under the microscope amid catalogue removals

What’s the deal with Triller and music? It’s a longstanding question around the short-video service, and there are competing narratives.
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Chinese firm Kuaishou is Merlin’s latest licensing partner

Kuaishou has a global footprint: more than 45 million users of its separate Kwai app in Brazil for example.
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Pinterest ups music activities with WMG, Merlin and BMG

Of all the social media platforms, Pinterest might be the one most under the radar for the music industry.
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Latest Twitch music deal is with indie licensing agency Merlin

Twitch's work to forge partnerships with music rightsholders – if not platform-wide music licensing deals just yet – continues.
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Music distribution trends: evolution, expansion and education

Yesterday's keynote from Mark Mulligan at the NY:LON Connect conference was followed by a panel about the future of music distribution.
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Merlin signs on with creator-focused licensing firm Lickd

Slowly but surely, music licensing startup Lickd, which helps YouTubers to pay for tracks to use in their content, is picking up deals.
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Feed Media Group signs deal with Merlin for Adaptr startups licensing platform

Feed Media Group has signed a deal with Merlin, connecting its product Adaptr to Merlin’s catalogue. It follows a similar deal that was signed with Warner Music Group in January. Adaptr gives emerging-to-mid-stage startups...
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Major labels and Merlin’s share of Spotify streams is falling

Spotify’s latest financial filing is being picked over for interesting trends, and one of those is the combined share of streams for the catalogues of the three major labels, plus the independent catalogue licensed...
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Snap strikes deals for licensed music in Snapchat app

Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc has signed music licensing deals with Warner Music Group, Warner Chappell, Universal Music Publishing, Merlin and a number of members of US publishing body the NMPA. Bloomberg reported...
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Merlin CEO promises ‘long view’ around tech partnerships

Earlier this year, indie licensing agency Merlin appointed Facebook music exec Jeremy Sirota as its new CEO. On Friday (15 May) he gave his first public speech in the role at AIM’s online ‘AIM House’ conference....
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Merlin COO: ‘We’re significantly enhancing our deal-making capacity’

Indie licensing agency Merlin has promoted its chief commercial officer and general counsel Charlie Lexton to chief operating officer – a new role for the organisation, working alongside CEO Jeremy Sirota. “Charlie...
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TikTok signs Merlin deal but its licensing work is far from done

TikTok and indie licensing-agency Merlin have announced a licensing deal covering use of music from the latter’s member labels “wherever the platform is available around the world”. The deal is effective immediately,...