Tag: revenues

In the streaming and recorded music world, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on companies’ first-quarter financial results has been noticeable, but not enormous. Many of them expect the bigger hit, if it’s coming, to...

The RIAA has published its annual year-end report on Latin (recorded) music revenues in the US, revealing that they grew by 28% to $554m in 2019. That’s more than double the rate of growth of the overall US market,...

Twitter is the latest tech company to publish its results for Q1 2020, revealing that its quarterly revenues grew by 3% year-on-year to $808m, with a similar “strong start to the quarter that was impacted by widespread...

You’d be forgiven for the tart reply ‘Well of course they do’ – even the world’s largest social network can’t be immune from the Covid-19 pandemic’s economic impact. “We experienced...

It should come as no surprise that Covid-19 is figuring prominently in the Q1 financial results of every public company. Alphabet announced its figures yesterday, and warned that although its revenues were up 13% to $41.2bn...

US satellite radio firm SiriusXM published its Q1 financial results yesterday, including updated figures for its Pandora subsidiary. The good news for Pandora: its ad revenues were up 4% year-on-year to $241m. The not-so-good...

In the 1980s and 1990s, Bullseye was a popular darts-based British TV game show, complete with a ‘look at what you could have won’ element where losing contestants were shown the grand prize they’d just failed to win....

Kobalt Music Group has published its financials for the fiscal year that ended on 30 June 2019. The company’s revenues grew by 35.1% year-on-year to $543.4m, but its total comprehensive losses for the year, net of tax,...

Bertelsmann, parent company of BMG, has issued the financial results for 2019 for its music arm, with revenues growing 10.1% to €600m (up from €545m in 2018). Recorded music revenues were up 13.6% while publishing grew...

Italy is having a hellish time with the coronavirus pandemic at the moment, so understandably the announcement of positive music industry growth figures for 2019 had a big shadow looming over them. Industry body FIMI reported...

Earlier this year, Twitter provided analysts with its financial guidance for the first quarter of 2020, predicting revenue of between $825m and $885m, and operating income between $0m and $30m. Yesterday, though, Twitter withdrew...

The latest financial results from technology firm RealNetworks include figures for its Napster subsidiary: $106.3m of revenues for 2019. Napster’s cost of revenues for the year were $85.9m, with operating expenses of...