Immediately after Justin Bieber’s first set at Coachella this year, we saw some mutterings online of the ‘he was playing his old YouTube videos and singing along, that’s that about?’ […]
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MMF and YouTube managers accelerator evolves into ‘Hyperdrive’
UK managers body the MMF has a long-term relationship with YouTube for its management accelerator. Now the program is evolving and rebranding as ‘Hyperdrive’. The idea is similar: a four-month […]
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Short form videos on YouTube Shorts now take even less time to watch
If you thought we had reached the theoretical zero-point of how short a short-form piece of video content can reasonably get – or wondered how they can possibly get any shorter, […]
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(Another) AI Roundup: indie artists react to YouTube AI claims; Facebook; ErosMusic Worlds; and Modulate
We’re being flooded with AI news this week, so for the sake of our sanity, we’ve once again rounded it all up for you to digest in one crispy AI nugget: […]
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Report highlights big-tech platforms’ role in spreading Indian ‘hate music’
US-based non-profit The Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) has published a report titled ‘Profiting from Hate Music: The Role of YouTube, Meta, Spotify and Apple Music in […]
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Watch out, YouTube: Spotify is launching direct full-length video uploads for artists
Spotify is rolling out the ability for artists to upload full-length videos to its service – enhancing its competition with YouTube.
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Music business ended 2025 with 921.6m paid streaming subscribers
By the end of this year, it’s quite possible that there will be more than one billion music subscribers globally.
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YouTube launches ‘Music Nights’ series of exclusive concerts
Spotify and YouTube Music have been competing increasingly fiercely in the podcasts space. Now exclusive live-music concerts are emerging as another key facet of their rivalry. We reported recently on Spotify’s […]
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Anthropic’s Claude FM is a 24-7 music stream on YouTube
Thus far, AI giant Anthropic’s main interaction with the music industry has been a legal battle with publishers, who are suing it for copyright infringement of their lyrics. More positively, […]
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YouTube claims ‘broad license’ to use music uploads for AI training
Questions about what YouTube and parent firm Alphabet are training their musical AIs on, and what the licensing structure around that is, have been bubbling for some time. A court […]
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Video exclusives: Spotify x Le Sserafim and YouTube x Madonna
Video is the new (old) battleground for streaming services in 2026: a space, unlike audio, where they can safely negotiate exclusives with big artists. Spotify’s latest partnership is with K-Pop group […]
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YouTube reveals the 24 artists in its ‘Foundry’ class of 2026
Artists including Dua Lipa, RosalÃa, Arlo Parks, Dave and Beabadoobee have benefited from YouTube’s ‘Foundry’ emerging-artists program over the years. Now its 2026 cohort has been announced. 24 artists are part […]
