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Could YouTube be the music-first social platform the industry needs?

Tatiana Cirisano

22 Feb 2024

music video

TikTok

YouTube

In December, we mused on what could happen if artists collectively stepped off the content treadmill. With Universal Music Group (UMG) removing its catalogue from TikTok, that thought experiment came startlingly...

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What is at stake in the TikTok-UMG showdown

Tatiana Cirisano

1 Feb 2024

Music Streaming

TikTok

Universal Music Group

Music’s biggest on-again, off-again relationship just took a turn for the ugly, as Universal Music Group is pulling its music off TikTok. We have seen this movie before: Every time the music industry...

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The cost of music streaming just went up — here is what must come next

Tatiana Cirisano

3 Nov 2022

Music Streaming

music industry

apple music

It is finally happening. Apple Music raised its music streaming subscription price for the first time ever, following price rises from the likes of YouTube and Deezer, and Spotify indicates that it will...

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With Meta’s revenue share program, can rights holders and platforms finally agree?

Tatiana Cirisano

28 Jul 2022

Streaming Music

user generated content

Content Creators

Over the last week, Meta made headlines three times in relation to music on its platforms (Instagram and Facebook). First, royalty-free music provider Epidemic Sound sued Meta for allegedly allowing users...

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