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Research firm NewsWhip recently published a chart of the ‘top publishers on Facebook’ in September 2018 – ranked by total likes, shares and comments on English-language content posted on the social network that...

Universal Music Group’s latest senior-executive appointment offers an interesting glimpse at how its marketing tools will be evolving in the future. UMG has poached Jaime Weston from sports body the NFL to be its new EVP...

Business-to-business digital music firm 7digital has announced its latest contract wins, and all three of them are for the same, sizeable client. The British company has “entered into agreements with Universal Music Group...

Universal Music has announced a new milestone for its Spinnup digital distribution platform. It now has more than 100,000 unsigned artists distributing their music via Spinnup. Well, not all of them are unsigned any more:...

UDiscoverMusic is the new D2C site set up by Universal Music to exploit its considerable catalogue division, with an emphasis not just on high-ticket boxset but also on discovery and contextual analysis of the artists in...

Major labels getting involved in Hollywood isn’t a new trend, but we’re interested in the news of Universal Music’s latest big-screen project.

Russian social network vKontakte has been a controversial entity for the music industry thanks to songs being shared on its platform. Its launch of a licensed (by Sony Music and Warner Music) streaming app in May was a big...

7digital has signified its latest arena for global expansion: Africa. The company has signed a deal with African collecting society CAPASSO that covers 40 countries on the continent, including licences for downloads and streaming....

Google has killed off a plug-in for its Chrome web browser that enabled people to cue up YouTube music to play in the background. We first wrote about Streamus in early 2014, when it launched as a way for people to add its...

Jelli started life as a “crowdsourced radio” service where fans could vote for the songs they wanted to hear on partner radio stations. Five years, $16m of funding and 700k registered users later the company pivoted,...

Ovum’s Music & Copyright publication has published its latest figures for recorded-music and publishing market share, covering 2014. Its key claim for last year is that Universal Music Group lost market share while...

One of the multi-channel networks presenting at this week’s MIPTV conference was DreamWorks-owned AwesomenessTV, which has several music links including a development deal with UMG. The company also talked about an upcoming...