What’s the most popular way to listen to music in Japan? Many people in the music industry’s first answer would be CD, given the market’s continued domination by physical sales. But no. According to research published earlier this year by industry body the RIAJ, the most popular way to listen to music in Japan is […]

YouTube music boss Lyor Cohen has been winding up rightsholders recently with his views on why the ‘value gap’ debate is overblown. But amidst this controversy, it’s easy to forget that some music executives see YouTube as the industry’s biggest opportunity rather than its greatest menace. Speaking at Paris Electronic Week, Luke Hood, founder and […]

Ticketmaster International’s SVP of insight and marketing Sophie Crosby has addressed the debate around secondary ticketing and online touting, criticising British politicians who launched an inquiry into ticket abuse in 2016. “Politicians haven’t got anything better to do? They don’t want to talk about education or Brexit or unregulated internet porn or massive technology giants […]

The international music industry is entering a new golden age. A kind of second gold rush. We’re right at the start, and it’s streaming that’s largely responsible. This business has suffered a long period of decline in terms of sales but I’m hugely optimistic about where we are headed right now. You have the biggest […]

JOB SUMMARY We’re currently working with an incredible and growing roster of emerging talent and already established labels from all over the world. We’re looking for someone to join the team focussing on the UK based projects. You’ll be a mix of project manager and label manager for your own mixed roster of clients, delivering […]

Paid music-streaming subscriptions are the star of US industry body the RIAA’s latest half-year figures, which show a 17% year-on-year rise in recorded-music retail revenues in the first six months of 2017. That means $4bn of spending on recorded music in the first half of the year, up from $3.4bn in the first half of […]

US music-streaming service Slacker Radio is being acquired by LiveXLive Media, in a deal that values the company at $50m. LiveXLive has agreed to pay $44m in cash and $6m in stock for the service, which has 1.5 million monthly unique users including 400,000 paying subscribers. Slacker had raised $75.7m of funding since its Series […]

Normally our lead story is about the brand new, the piping hot, the future roaring over the horizon. But a piece in Billboard about the release of the first major label download single 20 years ago got us thinking about the narrative and false assumptions that have ossified around the music industry and digital music […]

Spotify’s mechanical-licensing problems in the US aren’t easing. In fact, they’re escalating. Hundreds of artists and songwriters have put their names to a legal objection to Spotify’s proposed $43m settlement over mechanicals. The signatories include Tom Petty, Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine, Rivers Cuomo from Weezer, Kenny Rogers, […]

Soundcharts was an award-winner at the Midemlab startups contest earlier this summer. Now the French music-analytics firm has raised a $3.1m Series A funding round. The round was led by VC firm Alven Capital, with Kima Ventures and Global Founders Capital also chipping in. It follows $0.3m of previous seed funding from a round in […]

One of the quirks of the Chinese digital music market, from a western perspective, is the exclusive licensing deals that tech-giant Tencent has struck with major labels. Its deals with global label groups like Universal Music and Sony Music mean that the dominant player in the Chinese music-streaming market gets to sub-license those catalogues to […]

A new study by the Pew Research Center has been exploring the demographics of gamers in the US. While it confirms some common assumptions, it sheds new light in other areas. “Young men make up a disproportionately large share of people who play video games in the United States,” explained Pew. “But about four-in-ten women […]

2017 is set to be a tipping point in the UK for the way people access the internet, with smartphones overtaking desktop and laptop computers for the first time. That’s in terms of time spent a day, according to research firm eMarketer. It claims that this year, Brits will average one hour 59 minutes on […]

Amazon may be piling in to the ticketing market, but in the UK another recent entrant is getting out: Sky. The broadcaster’s Sky Tickets division has been wound down according to live-industry publication IQ, which notes that the division’s director Mark Guymer has moved on to Really Useful Group. The post UK broadcaster Sky shuts […]

Ticketmaster’s ‘Verified Fan’ program has been sparking controversy recently, after Taylor Swift added a layer of gamification and was accused of pushing fans to spend money to get a better chance of buying concert tickets. But Verified Fan is about more than that: Ticketmaster has positioned the program as its answer to online touting and […]

Vevo has been talking about the growth in its advertising business, with the music-videos service having taken in $500m in 2016. Chief sales officer Kevin McGurn told Business Insider that Vevo is expecting 30% growth in 2017, including nearly $200m in year-long ad commitments spawned by its shift towards ‘upfront’ sales of advertising, matching the […]

In January this year, we spotted a new British startup called Hookd that was planning to offer “the world’s first pre-cleared, commercial music licensing solution for online video creators”. Today, Hookd is launching its service officially. It will use a ‘pay-per-licence’ model, charging YouTubers from £7 to £150 per track based on their average video […]

JOB SUMMARY: We’re looking for a Digital Marketing Manager to join the Kobalt Music Recordings team and work with our growing roster of emerging and established talent from all over the world. Based out of our London office and reporting to the General Manager you will be working within the UK & International marketing teams […]

Ed Sheeran’s manager may loathe online ticket-touting, but could blockchain technology be part of the solution in stamping it out? Startup Aventus Systems hopes so: it has announced a partnership with music D2C firm Townsend Music to test its blockchain-ticketing technology in the UK. That tech “mirrors the creation, transfer, and sale of tickets throughout […]

Despite being banned in China and regulated more strictly in the US, initial coin offerings (ICOs) for blockchain-based startups are going to be drumming up large amounts of funding for a while yet. A new report by Coindesk quantifies the ICOs market before the two crackdowns above were announced: it claims that ICOs raised $797m […]

US performance-rights organisation BMI has announced a strong set of figures for its 2017 fiscal year, which ended recently. The company generated $1.13bn of revenues, distributing just over $1.02bn to songwriters, composers and publishers – up 10% year-on-year. BMI is hailing the results as “the most public performance revenue and highest royalty distributions of any […]

Reports on a court filing meant that the news of a settlement between labels and stream-ripping site YouTube-MP3 broke before the relevant industry bodies could announce it. But announce it they did, yesterday, with the IFPI, RIAA and BPI trumpeting the shutdown of a site which at its peak had 60 million monthly visitors turning […]

The Chinese government has banned initial coin offerings (ICOs), claiming that businesses raising funding through offers of virtual coins or tokens are engaging in “essentially a form of unapproved illegal public financing behaviour”. The government has also suggested that ICOs “raise suspicions” of financial fraud and other criminal activity, and is warning Chinese companies that […]

The latest startup focusing on the music industry’s workflow is Reprtoir, which will soon be launching its software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools for music companies. Or as the French firm describes it: “A complete SaaS suite built by and for music industry professionals that powers operating teams of all sizes… a breakthrough online music industry platform that […]

It wasn’t just Universal Music posting new financials this week. BMG (through its parent group Bertelsmann) has also revealed its latest figures, with encouraging growth in both revenues and profits. BMG generated revenues of €233m ($277m) in the first half of 2017, up 28% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the music company’s operating EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, […]

We’ve written a lot about ‘original content’ on music-streaming services in the past year or two: from video shows on Spotify to documentaries commissioned for Apple Music to podcasts on Spotify and Deezer to… There’s a lot of activity anyway. But the elephant in the room is the question of whether many people are actually […]

The three major labels – Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music – saw their collective recorded-music revenue from streaming grow to just under $1.3bn in the second quarter of 2017. That represents 38.5% growth year-on-year, with the three label groups now collectively making $14.2m a day from streaming. This is according to Music Ally’s […]

From cars to TVs, if straight-batting questions about future products was an Olympic sport, Tim Cook would be festooned with more medals than Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps combined. So when Apple’s CEO does talk about new technologies, his precision-targeted comments are always worth parsing. Such as these from an interview in March 2017. “I’m […]

Youth-focused messaging app Kik is the latest company raising funding through its own cryptocurrency – or specifically through an ethereum ‘token’ called Kin, which it announced earlier this year. Kik has just sold $50m of the tokens to institutional investors, with plans to open up a public sale to raise another $75m through an initial […]

At our NY:LON Connect conference in January this year, Dot Blockchain boss Benji Rogers caused a stir by making the confident prediction that “we’ll be at $100bn a year as an industry in two years” – albeit with the caveat that “it’s going to be really painful to get there”. It’s fair to say that […]

“What we’re working on is not just the performance. What we believe is that the next revolution is to have every instrument smart and connected…” Michele Benincaso is the CEO of Mind Music Labs, the Sweden-based startup behind the Sensus Smart Guitar. You may know it from the guitar’s unveiling at the Web Summit conference […]

The latest survey by research firm comScore has found that 51% of American smartphone owners download precisely zero new apps a month. This isn’t a new trend – the figure this time last year was 49% – but it’s a reminder of how tough the market is for brand new mobile apps. comScore noted that […]

The Foo Fighters have worked with former Songkick developer Lee Martin on an inventive mobile-web video for new track ‘The Sky is a Neighborhood’. The video sees the band playing on the roof of a cabin with a backdrop of the night sky. The twist for the mobile version is that it’s the actual constellations […]

Who doesn’t love a nice round number? Indie digital rights body Merlin has now paid out $1bn to its members since its inception in May 2008. It now represents 20,000 indie labels and distributors across 53 markets – collectively accounting for 12% of the recorded music market in digital. Merlin has deals in place with […]

  Managers, by the very nature of their job, have to be across everything their artists do, closely following each ebb and flow of every revenue source and being ready to jump on the next one when it emerges.  Data is solving a lot of the problems for managers here – rich and real-time information […]

Bloomberg is reporting that executives from Spotify met with Securities & Exchange Commission representatives recently to discuss the former’s supposed plan to bypass the traditional IPO path and go the direct listing route instead on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). “A direct listing also avoids underwriting fees and restrictions on stock sales by current […]

At the end of last week, YouTube music boss Lyor Cohen published a blog that outlined why YouTube was good for music and why the music business was wrong to attack it on issues such as safe harbour and the value gap. The industry took its time to chew over Cohen’s thesis, but different bodies […]

BASCA – the body representing songwriters, composers and lyricists – has outlined its criticisms of Lyor Cohen’s recent blog about YouTube. The full statement is below. BASCA response to Lyor Cohen Safe harbour a mere distraction? It actually means the price of the licensing agreements between YouTube and the music industry are not at their full […]

Lyor Cohen’s blog for YouTube (which we ran a news alert on yesterday evening) was always going to ruffle feathers. But then again Cohen has never been one to not ruffle feathers. Just under a year into the job as head of music at the video-sharing platform, this blog offered his most detailed overview of […]

YouTube’s head of music Lyor Cohen has admitted that “there’s still a disconnect between YouTube and the rest of the industry” but maintains that the company is keen to continue building bridges with music rightsholders. “I get why some in the music industry would be skeptical of their relationship with YouTube. They were late to […]

Sheet music is perhaps the oldest element of the modern music ‘industry’ as we know it, but it’s no surprise to find a number of startups exploring how it can evolve in the digital world. Swiss firm Tomplay is one of them, and it’s trying to do more than simply digitise sheet music. Like a […]

British digital-music firm Electric Jukebox has sprung a surprise this morning, claiming that it is in the process of closing a $14m funding round that will prepare the way for an IPO in the first half of 2018. The claim came as the company unveiled its second hardware/software product, Roxi, which blends music-streaming with karaoke […]

When Spotify agreed a $43.4m deal in May this year to settle a class-action suit brought against it over mechanical royalty payments – in a case combining lawsuits filed by David Lowery and Melissa Ferrick – it was no doubt hoping that would end negative coverage of its songwriter-royalties issues. For Chris Crawford, co-founder and […]

“This fundamentally changes the nature of how we talk to beginner guitar players. We’ve always sold them guitars and amps, but we’ve never been part of the learning process other than ‘here’s the instrument’. Now we’re saying come back: we’ll teach you how to use it…” Chances are you know Fender makes guitars and amps, […]

At first glance, Jellynote may look like the latest, polished app to help people learn to play guitar, piano and other instruments. Yet there is more to the company than meets the eye, from its use of machine-learning technology to its plans to evolve into a fully-fledged social platform for musicians. Its CEO Martijn Tjho […]

Swiss firm Dodeka is one of the startups exploring music edtech with a mixture of hardware and software. And in this case, with a new form of music notation too. Founded by father-and-son team Jacques-Daniel Rochat and Josua Rochat, the company started with the idea of making it easier to learn music through notation that […]

SoundCloud has secured new investment from merchant bank The Raine Group and investment firm Temasek, with former Vimeo boss Kerry Trainor taking over as CEO as part of the deal. SoundCloud’s existing CEO, co-founder Alexander Ljung, will be staying at the company as chairman of the board. Trainor is bringing his former Vimeo colleague Michael […]

Snapchat’s parent company Snap reported its latest quarterly financial results overnight, and the sight of its share-price plummeting tells you what the markets thought of the figures. The company’s revenues were up 153% year-on-year to $181.7m, but its net losses increased even more sharply: from $115.9m in Q2 last year to $443.1m last quarter. The […]

A track called ‘Why ‘A a a a a Very Good Song’ is 10 minutes of silence. Not in a John Cage conceptual way, but for purely practical purposes. Samir Rezhami created the track in response to a bug (or feature!) that sees iPhones start playing a user’s music library in alphabetical order when the […]

If you find yourself on Google’s homepage today, be warned, you may not be getting back to work quickly. The company’s latest ‘doodle’ is devoted to hip-hop: a pair of decks to mix with, and a virtual crate of tracks with some of the genre’s most-recognisable samples from its history. Hip-hop veterans Fab 5 Freddy […]

Amazon’s ambition to do more around concert ticketing is hardly a secret: Amazon Tickets has been operating in the UK for some time now, and is increasingly prominent there through partnerships with venues. In January, the company hired former WMG exec Lawrence Peryer as its director of tickets, while previous job ads revealed an intent […]

As a founding member of both Split Enz and Crowded House, Neil Finn is New Zealand’s most successful musical export, and a multi-award-winning songwriter. As well as being hugely prolific, he was an early convert to the power of live streaming, regularly broadcasting performances since 2001. His latest project is a series of Friday-evening (NZ […]

We’ve been writing a bit more about initial coin offerings (ICOs) recently. In the blockchain world, they’re a way for a startup to raise money by creating and selling their own cryptocurrencies, without having to run the gamut of regulations that a traditional IPO would have to. Or at least, that was the theory: a […]

The differences between the video and music-streaming worlds have been highlighted again, with the news that Disney is pulling its content from Netflix at the end of 2018. Why? Because the company is planning to launch its own video-streaming service in the 2019, starting in the US. Disney is buying a majority stake in tech […]

When we interviewed Kickstarter head of music Molly Neuman last September, she made it clear that partnerships were high on her agenda. One of the first was with vinyl-crowdfunding startup Qrates for an initiative called ‘Make Vinyl’ which is exactly what it sounds like: encouraging artists to crowdfund vinyl releases on Kickstarter, which are then […]

Instagram is adding something to its live-video broadcasting feature: an extra person. The app is testing allowing people to add another Instagram user to their broadcast in split-screen, which could be used for one-to-one video-chats (think FaceTime) or for collaborative broadcasts. “After we launched the first version of Live [last November], we noticed that a […]

Tidal has a new CEO. An evergreen sentence that we get to use at least one or two times a year, it seems, for a role that’s become the music-streaming industry’s equivalent of Spinal Tap’s drummers. The latest incumbent is Richard Sanders, who was president of Kobalt Music Group until earlier this year, with a […]

In January this year, Music Ally spotted a new artificial-intelligence music startup pop up on investment site Angellist. Called AI Music, the London-based firm said it was “evolving music from a static, one-directional interaction to one of dynamic co-creation”, with its CEO Siavash Mahdavi having a background in 3D printing and an engineering doctorate in […]

Lead: History tends to be written by the winners and that is why we almost exclusively hear about campaigns that worked brilliantly and left everyone involved covered in glory – where the marketing team and artist were all on the same creative wavelength. But what about the ones that go badly and where it was […]

LiveXLive describes itself as a ‘premium live-music streaming network’ but it’s also making a name for itself working with online influencers. We reported in June about its deal with former Vine star Andrew ‘King Bach’ Bachelor to make an original show for the network, but now it’s expanding its relationship with fellow social star Amanda […]

Wiz Khalifa’s ‘See You Again’ was a monster hit on streaming services, including unseating ‘Gangnam Style’ as the most-viewed YouTube video – at least until ‘Despacito’ turned up. Now the track has become one of the most high-profile songs to appear on Royalty Exchange, where a share of its digital-performance royalties is being auctioned off […]

Earlier this week we reported on D2C platform Bandcamp’s plans to protest against US president Donald Trump’s proposed ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces. The company is donating 100% of its share of sales today (Friday 4 August) to the Transgender Law Center (TLC) to show its disgust for Trump’s new policy, […]

Last month, dance artist RAC – aka André Anjos – released his new album EGO through the usual channels. But he also launched his own webstore selling the album using the Ether cryptocurrency. This was billed as the first full-length album to be distributed using the Ethereum blockchain platform. RAC worked with startup Ujo Music, […]

A reminder that the Venn diagram of ‘music people’ and ‘blockchain startup people’ is not a pair of separate circles. Phil Barry, founder of British startup Blokur, was a professional artist making electronic music as Mr Fogg before setting up his own independent label. Barry went on to lead the team of consultants working on […]

There has been plenty of discussion this week about Snap, Inc’s share price, which has reached a record low following the Snapchat parent company’s IPO earlier this year. Now CNBC has published an article based on interviews with ad-agency executives, which flags some warning signs for the company’s business model. The post Snapchat may be […]

It’s now a year since Instagram added its (by which we mean Snapchat’s) ‘Stories’ feature, for people to share quicker, rawer photos and videos for a short period of time. 12 months on, and the feature now has 250 million daily active users, and has been one of the factors in the lustre-loss of Snapchat […]

Facebook’s music-licensing ambitions continue, with news that the social network is recruiting a music publishing business development manager for the EMEA region. The London-based role requires someone who is “passionate about the changing music ecosystem, technology and supporting our goal of connecting people through social media, the mobile eco-system and business strategy”, and will lead […]

Anitta and her team are doing a pretty good job already of building her audience through online videos: The Brazilian singer’s YouTube channel has 5.1 million subscribers and just under 1.7bn views so far. Now she has signed a deal with digital-video agency Shots Studios, which will be managing her and developing more video content. […]

US industry body the RIAA is continuing its action against digital-mixtapes site Spinrilla, claiming that the site should not be eligible for DMCA safe-harbour protection. In a new court filing, the body claims that Spinrilla has not registered a ‘designated agent’ with the US Copyright Office, in order to field infringement notifications from rightsholders. Nor […]

Now safely berthed within Nielsen, Gracenote has announced that it is launching its Global Music Data product in Europe and Latin America, following its debut in the US in February. The company is pitching it as “the global database of record for the music industry” with data on genres, artists, albums, recordings, artist associations and […]

Artist-stores platform Bandcamp has announced that it will be donating 100% of its share of sales this Friday (4 August) to the Transgender Law Center (TLC). It’s the company’s protest against US president Donald Trump’s announcement last week that transgender troops would no longer be able to serve in the armed forces. “We support our […]

Spotify reached its latest milestone yesterday: 60 million paying subscribers. Reported in the Financial Times and confirmed to Music Ally by Spotify, the figure means Spotify has added 12 million paying subscribers in 2017 to date, with its last financial results revealing that it ended 2016 with 48 million. Having reached 50 million subscribers in […]

Lead: Blockchain is simultaneously one of the most hyped and most misunderstood technologies currently around the music industry. Some evangelists have suggested it will fix every problem in the digital-music ecosystem while automating middlemen out of the process. Sceptics have suggested that the blockchain buzzphrases can’t mask the fact that this technology has yet to prove […]

One of the potential benefits of blockchain technology could be its ability to power an industry-wide ‘sandbox’ of pre-cleared music for startups to experiment with. That’s according to several interviewees for Music Ally’s blockchain report, which was published this week for our subscribers. The post Could blockchain power an industry-wide music startup sandbox? appeared first […]

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is looking for a new CEO, after its current boss Yancey Strickler revealed he is stepping down from the role. Strickler was one of Kickstarter’s three co-founders in 2009, and became CEO in 2014 before guiding the company into its current incarnation as a public benefit corporation (PBC). Strickler stressed the positives […]

It looks like the much-discussed Trump bump is over for Twitter, with the company’s latest quarterly financial results flashing a number of warning lights. Twitter now has 328 million monthly active users (MAUs), which is up 5% year-on-year, but there was no growth between the first and second quarters of this year. And in fact, […]

Facebook has launched the latest update to its Messenger Platform for developers creating apps and bots for its messaging app. Version 2.1’s new features include built-in natural language processing (NLP) to automatically detect certain phrases and information in messages from users: hello, bye, thanks, date & time, location, amount of money, phone number, email and […]

From in-studio snaps to live performances and webchats, artists have been digitally giving fans insights into their recording process for some time. Jazz artist Esperanza Spalding is going a few steps further though: she’s planning to write and record her next album in the studio over a 77-hour period, while broadcasting the entire experience on […]

New figures published by French industry body SNEP show that digital is now the biggest part of the French recorded music market. In the first six months of 2017, it accounted for 55% of recorded music revenues in the country. Unlike in other major territories, streaming is not yet managing to counter the physical and […]

Why does Google need to have two music-subscription services? It’s a question that’s been discussed by a fair few music-industry people in recent years. Now it seems that YouTube’s global head of music Lyor Cohen has been asking the same question. And, indeed, answering it with a new plan. “The important thing is combining YouTube […]

Job title: Lead Data Scientist Consultant – 12 month consultancy contract Responsible to: Senior Director, Commercial Technologies Department: Commercial Technologies Location of work: Kensington Village Main purpose of role Key Responsibilities will include: -Product Owner and developer for “labs” prototyping area -Create algorithms and then prototype into our “Labs” for testing along with handing over […]

Amazon and Google have their own smart speakers with Apple’s HomePod set to join them by the end of 2017, as well as devices for China from the various tech giants there. It was only a matter of time before rumours about Facebook joining the voice-activated party started buzzing. Taiwanese news site DigiTimes claims that […]

Get your spooling-pencils ready! Jay-Z’s latest album ‘4.44’ may still be missing from Spotify, but it’s getting a new physical release as a cassette. Virgin EMI Records promoted the format in a tweet yesterday, with fans who pre-order the £7 version before 4 August to be entered into a draw to win tickets to watch […]

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to tackle the issue of copyrighted videos being uploaded to the social network without permission from their rightsholders. The company has acquired a startup called Source3, co-founded by Patrick Sullivan, Ben Cockerham and Scott Sellwood, who sold their previous startup music-licensing firm RightsFlow to YouTube in 2011. What is […]

Aftercluv is the recently created dance music division of Universal Music Latin America. With both a global vision and reach, Aftercluv is a 360-platform dedicated to electronic-dance entertainment and culture comprised of a record label, talent services, booking agency, branded partnerships, media (blog, 4 radio shows, 1 radio station, podcast, 2 TV shows) and special […]

We’ve written regularly in the last year about the shift in definitions of ‘exclusives’ on music-streaming services. Bar the odd exception, few albums are now exclusive to a single service, but Apple Music, Spotify and others are competing instead for exclusive access to artists in other ways: documentaries for example, or live events. The latest […]

The amount of money spent globally on mobile video ads is expected to overtake that spent on desktop video ads next year. The forecast comes from research firm Zenith, which claims that mobile video ad-spending will grow by 49% to just under $18bn in 2018, compared to a 1.5% decline in desktop video ad-spending. The […]

We wrote about blockchain/music startup Voise in June when we spotted its profile on an investment site: the Spanish-headquartered firm is working on a decentralised music streaming and downloading platform for independent artists. Now the company has published the latest version of its roadmap, laying out plans to launch an alpha version of its web […]

Pitchfork is the latest music brand exploring the potential for virtual reality. It is launching its own channel within the VR app of startup Inception. “Music videos have been a driver in the digital video space for a decade, and we see huge potential in expanding the art form into this much more immersive format,” […]

next five years, from $1.8 billion this year to $3.7 billion in 2022. The analyst says that the likes of Comcast, Netflix, Sky, Telstra and other video companies can differentiate themselves from their peers by their strong use of analytics to optimise and improve operational metrics. Pay-TV companies are starting to transform products to support […]

Infographics site Information Is Beautiful has received a lot of attention in the past for its charts comparing royalty-payouts from music-streaming services. They’ve always looked, yes, beautiful, but there have been questions about the figures behind them: for example, the difficulties of establishing ‘one’ figure for a service like Spotify with free and paid tiers, […]

Fresh from a week of stripping back the layers of Spotify commissioning producers to make music for its mood playlists, MBW has turned its attention to another scary headline for the company: “fake streams”. Editor Tim Ingham used a service called Streamify to buy more than 10,000 Spotify streams of a demo he made a […]

Startup Paperchain has launched a survey to gauge the scale of the music industry’s problem with unattributed royalties and unidentified rights owners. The company is hoping to receive responses from publishers, labels, collecting societies, artists (and thus managers), digital service providers and distributors. “We want to understand the perception of these topics by those working […]

UK consumer-rights organisation Which? has published a new report into secondary ticketing, identifying “first-class confusion” around that market. Among its findings: 17% of tickets for a Lady Gaga concert at The O2 in London were listed for sale on secondary services, with similar percentages for Tony Bennett at the Royal Albert Hall (17%) and Evanescence […]

With third-party developers building a growing number of apps using the APIs of Spotify and Apple Music, perhaps the developer community can also help SoundCloud plot its next moves forward. One team that was calling itself Overcast, but which appears to have quickly rebranded as Thndr to avoid confusion with popular podcasts app Overcast, is […]

As one of the hottest tickets on the current touring scene, Ed Sheeran is understandably also one of the most sought-after artists on secondary services. His team are trying to tackle touting though: this week they have cancelled 10,000 tickets for Sheeran’s Wembley Stadium gigs in June 2018, after finding them being resold on secondary […]

Did you think that Spotify’s recent settlement of a class-action songwriters lawsuit over mechanical royalties and licensing would be an end to the streaming service’s challenges in that area of the business? In a year when Spotify is moving steadily towards its long-awaited IPO, of course not. And it’s the US that continues to provide […]

Universal Music Group is understandably trumpeting a new milestone for Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s ‘Despacito’. Aided by a Justin Bieber-starring remix, the song has now been streamed more than 4.6bn times across “leading streaming platforms”, which UMG says makes it the most-streamed song of all time. In fact, the previous record-holder was Bieber’s own […]

7digital CEO Simon Cole has responded to Music Ally’s story yesterday about the firm’s latest financial results, and its auditor’s warning over uncertainty about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The results confirmed preliminary 2016 financial results announced by 7digital earlier this year, with its revenues up 15% to £11.9m in 2016, […]

“I think we have the opportunity to be a billion-dollar company if we attack all verticals…” For a startup with just two full-time employees and AU$500k (around $386k) in funding so far, setting sights on a 10-digit valuation is certainly an arresting claim. Muru Music founder and chief musicologist Nicc Johnson, however, feels that by […]

At a recent event organised by collecting society PRS for Music, MEP Mary Honeyball noted that the debate around copyright reform and the ‘value gap’ has split the European Parliament like never before. “We have had some heated discussions – which doesn’t usually happen in the European Parliament,” she said. “It is two very opposing […]

Job Title: Head of Technology and Development   About Merlin Merlin is the global digital rights agency for the world’s independent label sector, with a membership accounting for more than 12% of the global recorded music market. It was established to allow digital services the opportunity to globally license commercially successful independent music labels from […]

We reported earlier this week on Facebook’s decision to cut $100 off the cost of an Oculus Rift in order to juice sales of its virtual-reality headset. Now the social network appears to be preparing an even bigger move for 2018. Bloomberg claimed yesterday that Facebook is preparing to “unveil a cheaper, wireless device that […]

This isn’t a new thought, but the competition between Spotify and Apple Music isn’t just for the ears (and wallets) of music listeners: it’s also for the support of developers and startups. Spotify’s platform is well established while Apple’s is in its earlier stages – although due a big boost this year with its MusicKit […]

The saga of the Prince estate’s recorded-music archives deal with Universal Music Group is reaching an end. A judge has approved a request to rescind the distribution deal – estimated as being worth $31m – after a controversy concerning exactly which recordings the agreement did and did not cover. Universal had complained of misrepresentation during […]

After a report on TechCrunch based on leaks from an internal meeting raised new doubts about SoundCloud’s financial sustainability, the streaming service has responded. But its statement pretty much confirms the claim in the original piece that the company’s current funding does not stretch beyond the final quarter of this year. “To clarify, SoundCloud is […]

Google has found itself in a new row involving copyright, but this time round it isn’t music-industry bodies facing off with the company. Well, not directly. The opponent in this case is a US organisation called the Campaign for Accountability, which published a report this week alleging that “Google has paid scholars millions to produce […]

It turns out that ‘fake artists on Spotify’ is actually fake news. Or to put it more accurately: those artists are actually real, human songwriters and producers putting music out under pseudonyms, with those tracks then getting picked for prominent spots in some of Spotify’s popular ‘mood’ playlists for sleep, yoga, concentration and so on. […]

It’s not just smart speakers getting a price cut this week. Facebook has knocked another $100 off the price of an Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset. For a limited time, it’ll cost $399 with an Oculus Touch controller thrown in – whereas the two devices usually cost $499 and $99 respectively. It’s a sign of Facebook […]

Spotify’s commercial division has quietly launched a new site that mines the streaming service’s big-data stash. Spotify.Me went live just before the recent Cannes Lions conference, aimed at persuading more brands to advertise on Spotify’s free tier. While not specifically aimed at regular Spotify users, they’ll have some fun with it too. The site gets […]

It’s still rare to find a music-industry conference without at least one ‘manel’ – an all-male panel. Indie bodies WIN and AIM are trying to see off the sausagefests with their public-speaking workshops for women in the industry. This morning, they announced that they have now trained more than 100 women in the first six […]

German startup JAM says that its Music Maker JAM app now has more than five million registered users, having added four million of them since September 2016. JAM (which stands for Just Add Music) is a music-making app for amateurs and musicians alike, offering an array of loops and samples to construct tracks with, then […]

Ticketing service TicketWeb has teamed up with the UK’s Music Venue Trust to launch a new site called Grassroots Venues Tickets. It’ll provide listings and sell tickets for smaller music venues across the UK, with the aim of helping them survive and prosper at a time when grassroots venues have been closing at a worrying […]

Earlier today, we covered a new report co-published by PRS for Music and the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) about ‘stream-ripping’ piracy – where music from streaming services is converted into downloads to keep. Following the publication of that report, the pair held an event at PRS for Music’s London office this morning to discuss […]

It seems contradictory to describe SoundCloud’s announcement yesterday that it was laying off 173 staff as a shock but not necessarily a surprise. That has been the most common sentiment in the responses to the news however: sadness and shock about the sudden scale of the layoffs, but less surprise that SoundCloud needed to reduce […]

A pair of new studies commissioned by British collecting society PRS for Music and the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) claims that stream-ripping is now the “most aggressive” form of music piracy. The term refers to the process where audio from music-streaming services is ‘ripped’ by users into digital files which can be downloaded and […]

Amid renewed rumours that SoundCloud is about to be acquired, the company has announced that it is laying off 173 of its staff, while consolidating its offices down to Berlin and New York. CEO Alexander Ljung announced the news in a blog post. “In the competitive world of music streaming, we’ve spent the last several […]

Indian music-streaming service Saavn has made a bold prediction: it expects to be profitable by the end of 2018. The company said this morning that it now has 22 million monthly active users, and has quadrupled its revenues since 2014. No, it didn’t say what those revenues were or are. However, Saavn did talk about […]

Overall music consumption in the US grew by 9.9% in the first half of 2017, according to analytics firm BuzzAngle. It has published its Mid Year 2017 report ahead of the publication of official half-year figures from the RIAA. The report shows how the key trends from 2016 have continued this year, including a 58.5% […]

Austrian startup Record Bird has been picking up some traction with its iOS app. It sucks in people’s favourite artists on Spotify and Facebook, then provides them with a feed of new releases, videos, reviews and other content for those acts. This morning, the company has released the Android version of its app, which as […]

We first came across startup Rednote in August 2016, when its profile on investment site AngelList revealed its plans to launch an app to help people share licensed music clips in their messaging apps of choice. That app has now launched, albeit seemingly only in the US so far. “Rednote is a brand-new way to […]

If you have a few minutes spare today, we recommend reading Bloomberg’s in-depth profile of Chinese tech company Tencent. It outlines how the company got as big as it is in 2017, as well as its ambitions to expand beyond China and Asia in the future. There are some good stats too, for example on […]

Earlier this year, Amazon said that there were now more than 10,000 ’skills’ available for its Alexa voice assistant – its equivalent of apps for smartphones. Now that figure appears to have swelled to more than 15,000. That’s according to news site Voicebot, which has been counting the number of skills available for Alexa in […]

The release of Jay-Z’s new album ‘4.44’ as a Tidal/Sprint exclusive has created plenty of debate and controversy. Just ask Mark Ronson, who was tweeting grumpily about trying (and failing) to hear the album after joining Tidal after the deadline to gain access to it. “I signed up for Tidal solely to listen to a […]

Job title: Timed Release Manager Reports to: Vice President Digital Operations Department: Digital & Metadata Operations Location of work: Kensington Main purpose of role   The Timed Release Manager is a global role within the Digital Operations team playing a crucial part in timed scheduling of UMG’s releases with UMG’s primary delivery partners. The Timed […]

“There is a massive contradiction in the messages they are giving out… It is complete tomfoolery.” BASCA chairman Crispin Hunt was speaking at an event held in London last night by British collecting society PRS for Music, which provided the latest salvos in the war of words with YouTube over safe harbour and the ‘value […]

Music composed by artificial intelligence (AI) rather than humans is a controversial topic in 2017, for two reasons. First: disbelief in some quarters that an AI will ever be able to create music as well as a human can. And second: fear that if it can, that’s the next tech trend sucking income away from […]

Music Ally’s report this week – published yesterday – included a look at how the Chinese music market is evolving. But there’s another entertainment sector booming there at the moment: games. Research firm IHS Markit put out its latest predictions for the Chinese games industry yesterday, and the figures are impressive indeed. It expects the […]

The latest startup looking for a crossover between digital reading and music is Swiss firm Bubo. The company “provides e-books with synchronised music made specifically to fit the story” according to its listing on startups site Betalist. “Users can enjoy an enhanced and more emotional reading experience while discovering new books and music in a […]

YouTube has revealed more details about its upcoming Step Up: High Water drama series, which will be released as part of its YouTube Red subscription service this Autumn. Based on the Step Up dance movies, the 10-episode series will star musician Ne-Yo, with original music written by Jason Boyd and Jared Gutstadt – the latter […]

8tracks is the latest digital service to fall victim to an attack by hackers. “We received credible reports today that a copy of our user database has been leaked, including the email addresses and encrypted passwords of only those 8tracks users who signed up using email,” wrote CEO David Porter in a blog post. “If […]

With founder and former CEO Tim Westergren stepping down, Pandora now has an interim CEO: Naveen Chopra. He’s been giving some hints about the company’s future strategy in a speech at the Bernstein Future of Media Summit. “We believe that the primary listening experience is passive, for most people, meaning 90 percent of the time […]

Research published by a journalism institute claiming that news apps (and paying for news) are on the rise, while ad-blocking’s growth is stalling, may have you reaching for several pinches of salt. Still, Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is a respected body, and its survey canvassed more than 70,000 people in 36 […]

We reported last week on Dailymotion’s plans for a relaunch with music as one of its key pillars. Now one of its rivals, Vimeo, is tearing up its own plans to strike out in a new direction. Last November, Vimeo said it was planning to launch a subscription video-streaming service based on original shows, to […]

Black Sabbath are getting a new deluxe box-set treatment in September: a limited-edition vinyl box-set called ‘The Ten Year War’. It’ll include the band’s eight albums fronted by Ozzy Osbourne, as well as other rarities. But the most interesting aspect from a digital aspect is the inclusion in the box-set of a “crucifix-shaped Black Sabbath […]

In March, we reported on Google’s launch of a social app called Uptime, which was designed to help people watch YouTube videos with their friends. At the time, it was only available for iPhone users in the US who received an invitation. Now it’s opening up to more people, at least in the US, by […]

In 2016, as niche subscription video on demand (SVOD) services became a major trend in the online video industry, Vimeo announced its plan to launch an SVOD destination of its own . The video platform, best known as a home for artists and independent filmmakers, planned to employ its keen ability to spot rising talent […]

Speculation that Pandora CEO Tim Westergren was about to step down was correct – and the streaming service’s president Brian Herring and chief marketing officer Nick Bartle are also leaving the company. Pandora announced the news this afternoon, following rumours over the weekend about an imminent changing of the guard at the top of the […]

Lors de l’Assemblée générale de SUISA, les compositeurs, paroliers et éditeurs de musique ont approuvé et signé une résolution visant à renforcer le service public. Dans ce document, les membres de la coopérative SUISA demandent au Parlement suisse de prendre en considé-ration le rôle de premier plan que jouent les chaînes télévisées et stations de […]

YouTube used the VidCon conference in California last night to announce a major new milestone for its service: 1.5bn monthly viewers, up from its previous public stat of ‘more than 1bn’. Which means, among other things, that music-rightsholder bodies will be dashing to update their estimates of YouTube’s music audience for value-gap lobbying purposes. But […]

If Pandora thought its troubles were easing after securing a $480m strategic investment from SiriusXM… well, another digital radio firm is set to give it a headache. TuneIn is suing Pandora, after an advertising-sales partnership between the two companies went sour. The lawsuit alleges breach of contract, anticipatory breach, breach of the implied covenant of […]

Twitter’s live-streaming video service Periscope is finally taking a leaf out of rivals’ books by introducing a tipping feature to help broadcasters make money. It’s called ‘Super Hearts’ and launched yesterday within Periscope’s Android and iOS apps. “Super Hearts are new types of hearts that are larger, animated and more fun to give,” is how […]

To get clickbaity for a second: Taylor Swift put her catalogue back on all the streaming services… and you won’t believe what happened next! Well, you will: her streams went up by lots. Nielsen Music says that Swift’s catalogue generated 47.5m on-demand streams in the US last week, up 551% from the 7.3m it generated […]

Ticketmaster is the latest music company to be dipping its toes in the waters of messaging bots. It has launched a bot called Ticketmaster Assistant for Facebook Messenger, which promises to help customers find concerts, sports matches, films and other events through a conversational interface. “Where is Ed Sheeran touring?” and “Find jazz shows in […]

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More than two-thirds of consumers believe that virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will become mainstream in media, education, work, social interaction, tourism and retail, according to the latest Ericsson ConsumerLab report. The Merged Reality report revealed that when boundaries between people’s perception of physical and virtual reality start to blur, this could result […]

La technologie de – la même qui est en amont des monnaies virtuelles, des systèmes logistiques ou de transactions inter-bancaires pour garantir leur sécurité – est de plus en plus évoquée en publicité. Ce serait la solution idéale pour sécuriser les données si nombreuses y circulant, et surtout pour empêcher leur « fuite » ( […]

Dossier Normalisation des échanges, libération des métadonnées, transparence et équité, efficience, blockchain … A l’heure des réseaux ouverts et du tout numérique, l’informatique révolutionne la gestion des droits de la musique. Un dossier en 3 parties par Philippe Astor. 3e partie BLOCKCHAIN ET DEEP-LEARNING S’INVITENT DANS LA GESTION DES DROITS Troisième et dernier volet de […]

DROITS VOISINS La SPPF, organisme de gestion de droits voisins pour les producteurs phonographiques, vient d’établir son bilan d’activités 2016. C’était l’année de ses 30 ans. Communiqué : Des répartitions en progression, un cap historique dans le nombre de projets aidés et la création d’évènements destinés à souligner le rôle essentiel de la production musicale […]

Vincent Bolloré, président du conseil de surveillance de Vivendi, maison mère du groupe Canal, fin avril. Dans le secteur de l’audiovisuel, cela commence à chauffer entre Canal et les producteurs. Alors qu’une bonne partie de la profession est réunie cette semaine à La Rochelle pour le Sunny Side, un marché du documentaire, de plus en […]

Kasabian love football: if you didn’t already know the band were keen fans of Leicester City, their recent launch of a branded fashion line for the club made it clear. Now label Sony Music is getting all footbally with the band’s digital marketing too, launching a Kasabian Fantasy Football game for fans to play online. […]

Spotify is boosting its integration with Facebook Messenger, two months after launching a ‘chat extension’ for the messaging app. This morning, Spotify has launched a new feature called ‘Group Playlists for Messenger’ which focuses on the collaboration element of streaming playlists. “Users can now create a Group Playlist, share it with their friends, and add […]

Cinéma, audiovisuel, vidéo, international, aides du CNC Le Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée a réalisé, pour la huitième année consécutive, une étude sur le marché du documentaire en France. Cette étude analyse l’évolution de la production audiovisuelle et de la production cinématographique d’œuvres documentaires. Elle met en lumière les caractéristiques spécifiques de […]

The digital video bubble isn’t bursting just yet: Vice Media has raised a new funding round of $450m that values the company at $5.7bn. The latest round comes from a single source, private-equity investor TPG, which you may remember also dived in to Spotify’s $1bn of convertible-debt financing last year. Vice Media, which now runs […]

It’s been a relatively slow start sales-wise for virtual-reality headsets, let alone augmented-reality devices. However, research firm IDC remains confident that the market for both will grow at a pace in the coming years. The company has published its latest forecasts, predicting that combined AR and VR headset sales will grow from just under 10m […]

Snap, Inc’s public status means we have much more information on Snapchat’s financials: including heavy net losses of $372.9m in 2015 and $514.6m in 2016 alone. Striking big content and advertising deals with big media companies is a key part of the company’s ambitions to move into profit, with the latest such partnership announced overnight. […]

Royalty Exchange was set up in 2011 to act as a broker/marketplace to connect owners of copyrights with private investors looking to buy a share of the future earnings of those copyrights. The company says the model is not about surrendering control of copyrights but rather is based on an earnings-share model. It has just […]

The alleged owner of defunct file-sharing site KickassTorrents has implied that he might consider voluntarily travelling to the US to face the copyright charges made against him and his former business. Artem Vaulin was arrested in Poland nearly a year ago as American authorities moved to take the popular file-sharing hub offline. Efforts to extradite […]

Mark Kitcatt is CEO and part owner of independent music company Everlasting Popstock and has a long and successful track record in the music industry. Based in Madrid since the 1990s, Mark is concerned about the impact of Brexit on music and musicians, as well as its effect on the citizens’ rights of UK nationals […]

On Monday last week, Altice, the fourth largest US pay-TV operator, laid out the details of its planned IPO (Initial Public Offering). With a projected initial public stock price offering of $27-$31 per share, the 45.5 million shares to be offered will mean that the company will raise between $1.3 billion and $1.4 billion, valuing the whole […]

Internet a introduit des changements majeurs sur la distribution des contenus, la transformation des usages et des modèles économiques et même sur les modes de production des jeux vidéo. Ces changements sont autant de passerelles entre segments de marché, qui conduisent à l’ouverture des plateformes et à leur convergence, à l’uniformité des modèles économiques, à […]

Spotify has published its much anticipated 2016 revenues. Because the company is under so much analytical scrutiny, there is little that is particularly surprising but there is still plenty we can learn from the results: Growth maintains momentum: Spotify recorded revenues of €2.9 billion in 2016, up 51% from €1.9 billion in 2015. Although that […]

Dans un arrêt rendu le 14 juin 2017 dans l’affaire C-610/15 Stichting Brein/Ziggo BV, XS4All Internet BV la Cour de justice de l’Union eupropéeenne (CJUE) a précisé que la fourniture et la gestion d’une plateforme de partage en ligne d’œuvres protégées telle que «The Pirate Bay» peut constituer une violation du droit d’auteur Même si […]

YouTube has launched an interesting new feature for people creating VR and 360 videos for its service. Any of these videos that gets more than 1,000 views will now get its own ‘heat map’ in YouTube’s analytics system. “You’ll be able to see exactly what parts of your video are catching a viewer’s attention and […]

Amazon has made tentative moves recently to help developers start to make money from their Alexa skills, developed for the company’s Echo devices. However, Amazon is also cracking down on one of the early attempts by a third-party company to provide a similar service. Startup VoiceLabs had launched a feature called ‘sponsored messages’ for Alexa […]

“Today we #WITNESS history. Congratulations @katyperry, the first to reach 100 million followers!” announced Twitter’s official account on Friday. The company encouraged fans to share their “favourite Katy Perry moments” in celebration of the milestone – no, her new album going in at number six in the UK albums chart that day doesn’t count, cynics […]

L’achat des droits de la Ligue des champions par SFR a donné des idées aux présidents des clubs de Ligue 1 et ces derniers seraient favorables à ce qu’un nouvelle appel d’offres pour les droits TV de la période 2020-2024 soit lancé sans perdre de temps. Et selon le Journal du Dimanche, l’objectif à atteindre […]

Les droits audiovisuels de la Ligue 1 pourraient intéresser les géants du web américains comme Google, Amazon ou Facebook, à l’instar de BeIN Sports et Canal+. | AFP Les droits audiovisuels de la Ligue 1, qui doivent être remis en jeu après 2020, vont attirer les groupes de télévision payante, les opérateurs télécoms, mais pourraient […]

La SACD publie ses chiffres clés pour l’exercice 2016, ainsi que son rapport annuel. L’Assemblée générale de la SACD vient de se tenir avec un taux de participation record en cette année d’adaptation des statuts à la directive européenne sur les organismes de gestion collective. Il montre l’implication des auteurs dans la vie de la […]

Europe’s effort to create a single patent system has been thrown into confusion following a decision by Germany’s constitutional court to halt legislation ratifying it. According to German media reports , since confirmed by a court spokesperson, the court received a complaint from an as-yet-unnamed individual arguing that the unitary patent and patent court (UPC) […]

NEW YORK, Jun 13, 2017 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) — NEW YORK, June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Persistence Market Research (PMR), in its report, projects the globalprogrammatic advertising platform marketto register a staggering expansion at 33.3% CAGR during the forecast period 2017 to 2025. In 2016, the market was evaluated at US$ 1,926.4 Mn, […]

After a few months of wishy-washy statements on net neutrality indicating that the company had largely given up on it, Netflix is changing course. In a tweet today, the company wrote: “Netflix will never outgrow the fight for #NetNeutrality. Everyone deserves an open Internet.” It also linked to the Battle for the Net campaign, indicating […]

L’analyse d’un succès préparé Depuis plusieurs mois, voire plusieurs années, partout dans le monde, nous assistons à une mutation du pouvoir et à une contestation provenant de la base. L’élection de D. Trump et le Brexit en sont des exemples. Cette contestation s’est faite ressentir dans cette élection, avec une absence des deux partis historiques […]

Toronto – La SOCAN annonce aujourd’hui ses états financiers finaux pour l’exercice s’étant terminé le 31 décembre 2016 et rapporte qu’elle a enregistré de nouveaux records à presque tous les chapitres, dont des revenus de redevances nationales et internationales de 330 millions $ provenant de la diffusion de la musique de ses quelques 150 000 […]

Est-ce réel ? Bernard Goldbach/Flickr , CC BY Nous en sommes certains : la data va révolutionner le monde, mais qui va vraiment en profiter ? En 2011, la société de conseil Gartner indiquait : « Les informations sont le pétrole du XXI e siècle, et l’analytique en est le moteur à combustion ». Filant […]

GRP data, analytics drive-to-web ou environnement logué, la régie publicitaire du groupe TF1 a détaillé lors de ses ateliers data les différentes briques de son offre “One Data” qui imagine la publicité adressée en TV de demain. La télévision serait en train de vivre rien de moins qu’”une révolution copernicienne” selon Régis Ravanas, à la […]

Spotify has published its financial results for 2016, and they reveal that the company’s net loss increased from €231.4m in 2015 to €539.2m ($601.4m) last year. The company’s revenues grew from €1.93bn in 2015 to €2.93bn ($3.27bn) in 2016. So, Spotify’s income grew by just under 52% year-on-year, but its losses increased by 133%. Spotify’s […]

The MTP Interview: Alan Graham’s Artist’s Guide to Blockchain, Open Music Initiative, Smart Contracts and Dark Social (Part 1) Chris Castle: Tell us a little bit about your background and your company. How did you come to be involved with the Open Music Initiative? Alan Graham : For 25 years I’ve worked as a technologist, […]

The MTP Interview: Alan Graham’s Artist’s Guide to Blockchain, Open Music Initiative, Smart Contracts and Dark Social (Part 2) This post is Part 2 of the MTP Interview with Alan Graham. Read Part 1 here . Chris Castle: How are licensing payments fulfilled using blockchain? Alan Graham : Hard to say exactly without examining an […]

Update: after this story went live, Spotify also published its 2016 financial results, revealing revenues of €2.93bn and a net loss of €539.2m. Spotify now has more than 140 million active users, but the company is not saying how many of them are paying for a subscription to the music-streaming service. The company announced the milestone on the […]

15/06/2017 : Communiqué de presse – Les films européens représentent un tiers de tous les films promus sur les plateformes de VOD en Europe Les films américains se taillent toujours la part du lion avec 58 % L’Observatoire européen de l’audiovisuel publie une nouvelle analyse de la visibilité et la promotion des films sur les […]

Entre 2016 et 2022 le nombre d’abonnements mobiles passera de 7,5Md à 9Md. Selon le dernier rapport d’Ericsson sur la mobilité, 90% des abonnements smartphone sont au moins en 3G et le nombre d’abonnés au haut débit mobile devrait, lui, augmenter de 2,6 milliards d’ici 2022, soit un peu plus d’un million par jour en […]

We’re used to royalties being the main point of friction between songwriters and streaming services. However, Sony/ATV boss Martin Bandier has turned the focus onto another topic: credits. As part of his speech accepting a lifetime service award at US publishing body NMPA’s annual meeting last night, Bandier called on streaming services to do more […]

The truth about blockchain is that at its core, it requires its regime to be enforced on rights owners in order to scale–and that is its essential flaw. Call me a blockchain skeptic. I agree with many of the conclusions reached by Alan Graham in his MusicTechPolicy interview , but I also think that at […]

The latest company to launch a streaming service for classical music is Primephonic, building on the growth of its existing downloads store. Primephonic’s streaming service launches today in the UK and US, with a catalogue of more than 100k tracks, and licensing deals with Warner Classics and Sony Classical that will swell that total in […]

Selon Conversationnel, une agence lyonnaise de conseil en communication digitale, les chatbots représenteront 40% des interactions mobiles d’ici à 2020. Avec une hausse de 37% au cours des 4 prochaines années, ce marché atteindra 994,4 millions de dollars en 2024. Lire la suite de l\\\’article www.lemondeinformatique.fr

En obtenant de Google la reconnaissance d’un « établissement stable » dans la Péninsule, Rome a pu prélever l’impôt sur son activité dans ses frontières, note dans une tribune au « Monde » Franck Cazenave, l’auteur de « Stop Google ». Il plaide pour que les autres pays européens fassent de même face aux géants […]

The Hollywood studios, leading SVOD services and key networks around the world have formed a global anti-piracy coalition. In total, 30 companies have come together to create the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) in a bid to combat illegal video and content downloads. The firms include Amazon, BBC Worldwide, CBS Corp., NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, […]

14/06/2017 : Press release – UK TV programmes make up the lion’s share of EU TV content available on Netflix and iTunes, followed by France and Germany European Audiovisual Observatory publishes new VoD study! A.TV content in the catalogues of Netflix and Apple’s iTunes The main European countries of origin for EU 28 TV content […]

Sense8 Murray Close/Netflix For a while there, Netflix was on a roll. Over the course of about four years, from House of Cards to Stranger Things , it produced one hot new show after another. The platform gave its series healthy budgets, their stewards complete creative control; renewal for multiple seasons was seemingly a fait […]

Ascap-new logo The new agreement between ASCAP and YouTube is all about better data. With no official central database of songs and songwriters, YouTube, Spotify and other streamers have repeatedly come under fire for failing to properly identify and compensate some songwriters. This new deal will leverage YouTube’s extensive data analytics and ASCAP’s database of […]

La fourniture et la gestion d’une plateforme de partage en ligne d’œuvres protégées telle que « The Pirate Bay » peut constituer une violation du droit d’auteur Même si les œuvres concernées sont mises en ligne par les utilisateurs de la plateforme de partage, ses administrateurs jouent un rôle incontournable dans la mise à disposition […]

The largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95% of the market – lost around 410,000 net video subscribers in Q1 2017, compared to a gain of approximately 10,000 subscribers in Q1 2016. According to Leichtman Research Group (LRG), these operators account for 93.3 million subscribers. The top six cable companies (Comcast, Charter, […]

Musique à l’image À travers le bilan 2016 du Centre national du cinéma (CNC), un ensemble de données permet d’évaluer la place de la musique dans les productions audiovisuelles et dans les aides accordés par l’établissement. Parmi les enseignements, on constate que les captations de concerts enregistrent une forte baisse de production et que les […]

MERLIN MEMBER SURVEY 2017 A great leap forward, with one step back Audio streaming growth outstrips video 3-to-1 as distributions to independent labels hit $353m 8th June, New York: – Merlin, the global digital rights agency for the independent label sector, has today unveiled results of their 2017 member survey at A2IM’s annual meeting. Now […]

Tous les ans, le DigiWorld Yearbook est là pour rappeler les événements du numérique, commenter les plus importants, tracer les futurs possibles, fournir les derniers chiffres et analyser les tendances pour la prochaine décennie sur les multiples marchés transformés par le numérique. « Si l’année dernière consacrait la 4e révolution industrielle, avec la généralisation de ladeep […]

L’Observatoire européen de l’audiovisuel a publié un rapport consacré à l’origine des films et du contenu télévisuel dans les catalogues de VOD dans l’UE ainsi qu’à la visibilité des films. Téléchargez-le gratuitement en anglais ici. La composition des 68 catalogues de TVOD en fonction de la région d’origine des films (octobre 2016) L’Observatoire, qui est […]

Asa Mathat Technology has upended most of the media industry, but one thing that hasn’t changed is the new movie business: If you want to see most films when they’re released, you have to go to a movie theater to watch them. That is finally going to change, says MoffettNathanson analyst Robert Fishman, in part […]

Facebook has been attracting criticism from within the news publishing industry in recent times on various counts: fuelling the spread of ‘fake news’ for example, or for the underwhelming performance of its ‘instant articles’ format. Now the social network appears to be working on a new strategy, as reported by the Wall Street Journal yesterday. […]

Le télétravail rend les salariés plus productifs Le télétravail, outil de productivité et de lien social ? C’est la conclusion de l’étude du cabinet Monar pour Polycom. En laissant de l’autonomie aux salariés, une organisation du travail plus flexible les rend plus productifs et plus attentifs aux autres. Les Français ne sont pas encore convaincus […]

D’après des informations officieuses, Facebook passerait à l’étape supérieure concernant son projet de production vidéo, avec la signature de plusieurs partenaires médias ainsi que la mise en œuvre de deux formats différents. Entre Snapchat, Twitter et Facebook, se prépare la nouvelle guerre du contenu. Alors que le réseau social préféré des millenials travail avec NBC […]

©Planfilm En acceptant la mission de concertation et de médiation entre auteurs et producteurs audiovisuels que lui a confiée Audrey Azoulay dans l’une de ses dernières décisions de Ministre de la Culture et de la communication, Francine Mariani-Ducray savait qu’elle allait être confrontée à une tâche difficile. Difficile, car la mise à l’écart des auteurs […]

More people are now using streaming video services than have a cable subscription, according to a May 2017 study from Fluent LLC . The survey found that 67% of US internet users watch or have access to a streaming service, while just 61% have cable in their homes. Unsurprisingly, millennials used streaming services at a […]

midemThe MIDEM conference, the June confab of music industry professionals and artists that takes place in Cannes, France, wraps on Friday, June 9, but not before a full assessment of four intertwining sectors: streaming, synch, marketing, and A&R. Some 4,200 delegates from all over the world were in attendance, according to organizers, marking a slight […]

Une étude de Parse.ly n’a pas laissé la presse spécialisée indifférente et pour cause : elle permet de distinguer clairement le pouvoir d’attraction de trafic de Google, de Facebook et d’autres sources, selon le sujet traité par l’éditeur. Extrait du rapport sur les sources de trafic 2016 de Parse.ly, mai 2017. Alors que Facebook génère […]

A specialist Usenet provider in the Netherlands has been told to provide Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN with details about a former user who is accused of sharing copyright infringing material via the Usenet network. As previously reported, BREIN has stepped up its efforts in the last eighteen months to target prolific individual file-sharers, scoring some […]

Ce choix est un revirement pour l’opérateur de Patrick Drahi, qui mettait jusqu’ici en avant sa propre offre de SVOD, SFR Play. CHARLES SYKES / INVISION / AP « Nous voulons offrir à nos abonnés le meilleur du contenu » , résume Alain Weill, le directeur général d’Altice Media (ex- SFR ). Fort de cette […]

A study from Digital TV Research has found that 2016 saw an estimated 254 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2010 and 2016, an increase of 35%, to take the global total to 969 million. The Global Pay TV Subscriber Databook found that digital cable TV created the most additions by platform – at 256 million […]

FILE PHOTO: Satellite dishes of the German television stations Kabel 1, SAT 1 and Pro Sieben are pictured on the roof of the company’s office in Berlin. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo In November last year, the head of Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 went cap in hand to his biggest investors looking to raise more than half a billion […]

MIDiA Research were one of thousands of delegates who arrived in Cannes this week to attend Midem; the annual conference addressing the latest developments in the music industry. Across four days of panels, here are three points we found most insightful: Still no consensus on streaming: Perhaps predictably, many of the event’s panels with regard […]

TF1, ProSiebenSat.1, et Mediaset Espagne et Italie créent European Broadcaster Exchange Les groupes médias TF1, Mediaset (Espagne et Italie) et ProSiebenSat.1 annoncent la création à parts égales de la régie European Broadcaster Exchange(EBX) afin de proposer des campagnes vidéos pan-européennes dans un environnement 100% brand safe et premium sur le digital. L’accent sera mis – […]

The relationship of Spotify and Swedish collecting society STIM has encountered a bump in the road, relating to the terms of their royalties agreement. “We have informed our rightsholders that the royalties from Spotify will be delayed, since Spotify has not yet payed the invoice regarding Q4 2016,” STIM’s spokesperson told Music Ally. “We have […]

Droits voisins L’ADAMI enregistre en 2016 une croissance régulière des perceptions, “la gestion collective des droits des artistes-interprètes étant entrée dans une phase de maturité” depuis 4 ans selon la société d’artistes. Comme pour la SACEM avec la collecte des droits d’auteur, la perception des droits voisins des artistes-interprètes continue de croître et atteint un […]

Plus de 200 représentants de sociétés d’auteurs et de créateurs du monde entier sont conviés à Lisbonne le 8 juin pour l’Assemblée Générale 2017 de la CISAC. La publication du rapport annuel coïncide avec la réunion. La brochure dresse un tableau complet des activités mondiales de la CISCA .. http://fr.cisac.org/CISAC-FR/Actus-Media/Communiques-de-presse/La-CISAC-publie-son-Rapport-Annuel-2017-de-la-Chine-au-Chili-la-CISAC-monte-le-son

LE LIVRE BLANC DISPONIBLE DÈS À PRÉSENT Durant plus de quatre mois, dirigeants, journalistes, animateurs et collaborateurs de France Télévisions sont allés à la rencontre du public à travers des rencontres de grande ampleur mais aussi des ateliers et tables rondes. L’objectif du groupe public était, avant tout, de donner la parole à ceux qui […]

Music Industry Sector Breakdown (US; PwC) The US music industry is now worth $17.2 billion, according to data calculated by PwC. And more than half of that is coming from concerts. Streaming is exploding. But a majority of the revenue in the music industry is coming from live events. According to US-based calculations shared by […]

Dossier Normalisation des échanges, libération des métadonnées, transparence et équité, efficience, blockchain … À l’heure des réseaux ouverts et du tout numérique, l’informatique révolutionne la gestion des droits de la musique. Un dossier en 3 parties par Philippe Astor . 1e partie LIBÉRER LES MÉTADONNÉES DE LA MUSIQUE Premier volet d’un vaste dossier, cet article […]

La Commission européenne a présenté en septembre une directive sur le droit d’auteur dont certaines dispositions sont vivement critiquées. Alors que des commissions spécialisées au Parlement européen ont proposé d’arrondir les angles, le plus grand flou règne sur la position des eurodéputés. Le droit d’auteur est de nouveau au cœur de toutes les attentions en […]

Nick Burfitt, Global Director & MD APAC of Kantar Media, feels that industry third party measurement is a must for advertisers and agencies to have trust in the data. He firmly believes that no one should grade their own homework. We caught up with him to get his thoughts on the changing viewing habits, the […]

Is blockchain technology the new internet? The blockchain is an undeniably ingenious invention – the brainchild of a person or group of people known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto . But since then, it has evolved into something greater, and the main question every single person is asking is: What is Blockchain? By allowing digital […]

The music industry’s arguments about the ‘value gap’ tend to be summarised as ‘rightsholders versus YouTube’. While that’s often the case, there are wider issues in play here around how internet safe-harbour legislation could be modernised. A panel at the Midem conference this afternoon focused on the rightsholders and legislators in this debate in Europe. […]

As a musician, I want to encourage other artists to collaborate with my music. But recently, a visual artist had all of his Vimeo videos taken down for using just 30 seconds of one of my songs. The label that exclusively licenses one of my songs likely had a bot looking for copyright infringement that […]

Apple Music now has 27 million paying subscribers, up from 20 million the last time the tech giant did some subscriber maths in public last December. Actually, in February Apple’s Eddy Cue said it was now “well past 20 million” , but that is more semantics than maths, so it officially doesn’t count. And this […]

from the this-is-so-dumb dept Over the last few years, the EU has been going through a pretty big copyright reform process. And it’s been quite the roller coaster with some good ideas and some bad ideas mixed in at times. MEP Julia Reda of the Pirate Party has been the point person in calling out […]

L’exercice est aussi intéressant que périlleux. Anticiper le nombre d’abonnés à 5 ans relève sans doute un peu de la boule de cristal et un peu d’outils de modélisation. Son principal intérêt, c’est de montrer une fois de plus que la SVOD est en train de s’ancrer dans le paysage audiovisuel mondial et qu’elle fait […]

Le Président de la Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD) est l’invité du Buzz Média TDF-Le Figaro cette semaine.  

9,9 millions de vidéonautes sur les sites d’Actualités En avril 2017, 33 millions d’individus ont regardé au moins une vidéo depuis leur écran d’ordinateur, soit plus d’un Français sur deux (53%). Au quotidien, ils sont 9,1 millions de vidéonautes. Lors du mois d’Avril 2017 qui fut rythmé par les Elections Présidentielles, le nombre de vidéonautes […]

France Télévisions lancera son service de VOD sur abonnement à la rentrée. – AFP Un Netflix à la française c’est l’arlésienne du PAF depuis des années… et c’est France Télévisions qui aura finalement réussi à se lancer, avec la plateforme France.TV , qui remplacera Pluzz , son site de replay. Il aura fallu deux ans […]

Sony/ATV has announced an alliance with Lyric Financial which will see the former offer the latter’s ‘virtual ATM platform’ to its songwriters via its own SCORE royalty portal. The deal means that Sony/ATV repped writers will be able to request an advance on royalties they expect their songs to generate in the near future, helping […]

For about a decade now, there’s been a lot of talk in the media about cord-cutters: those folks who’ve given up on cable and satellite TV, and instead get their television mostly from the internet. Thanks to ad-supported network websites and apps — supplemented by behemoth subscription streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon — […]

Dans son livre blanc, l’UPFI aborde les enjeux économiques, culturels et sociétaux de la musique enregistrée. 7 enjeux et 12 mesures constituent la priorité des producteurs indépendants. Avec la nomination de Françoise NYSSEN au poste de Ministre de la Culture, l’UPFI appelle de ses vœux la mise en place d’une politique favorable au développement des […]

The American record industry’s collecting society SoundExchange yesterday announced it had acquired Canadian mechanical rights society CMRRA in what the former is calling “a dramatic development for the global music industry”. And who doesn’t like a bit of drama? SoundExchange is the closest the US record industry has to an organisation like PPL in the […]

SUISA a pu clore son exercice 2016 de manière très satisfaisante. Le résultat fait apparaître un niveau sans précédent en ce qui concerne le produit provenant des utilisations de droits d’auteur en Suisse. Le montant à répartir atteint un niveau record dans l’histoire de la coopérative, née il y a plus de 90 ans. La […]

Un arrêt de la Cour de justice européenne de 2015 et deux arrêts allemands de l’année dernière ont remis en question le principe de la participation des éditeurs au produit de la gestion des droits d’auteur. Voici pourquoi ce qui s’est passé pour la Gema ne risque pas d’arriver à SUISA. Texte de Martin Korrodi […]

A coalition of festival and concert promoters is suing Sabam, the Belgian performance rights organisation (PRO), over the live music tariff increases which came into force at the beginning of this year. As of 1 January, the largest festivals have seen their payments to Sabam increase 30%, to 3.25% of box-office receipts, while promoters of […]

Brett Cottle, the long-serving CEO of APRA AMCOS, has announced his intention to step down after 27 years at the Australasian collection society. Cottle, who joined APRA as its first in-house counsel in the late 1970s, oversaw the merger of APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) and AMCOS (Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners’ Society) in 1997 and […]

It’s a big accomplishment for a mobile game to get a lot of players. And it’s still more difficult to keep them around. Hanging on to users, known as retention, is important to generate loyalty among them. And since loyal users tend to spend more money in free-to-play games, retention is often viewed as key […]

Binded , the U.S.-based copyright platform, has secured $950,000 from Taizo Son’s fund, Mistletoe. The round also witnessed participation from other investors including Vectr Ventures, Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, M&Y Growth Partners, Social Starts and Tokyo Founders Fund. This investment brings the total capital raised by the firm to $1.5 million. It will now use […]

COLOMBIA: Aprueban El Tiempo / En último debate en la plenaria del Senado se aprobó, para sanción presidencial, el proyecto de ley que los escritores y directores audiovisuales en Colombia habían reclamado por años: la protección de sus derechos de autor ante la comunicación pública de sus creaciones. Detrás de la presentación y promoción del […]

We all know by now that there are many more ways of being discovered than talent shows. Social networks have allowed us to discover, for better or worse, a plethora of Canadian talent over the course of the last decade: The most shining examples being Alessia Cara, Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes. As for the […]

Il est encore un peu tôt en France pour considérer que la SVOD est devenue la concurrente de la télévision. Avec plus de 6 millions d’internautes qui pratiquent la SVOD, 2,2 millions d’abonnés estimés et 26 petites minutes par jour, la SVOD n’est pas encore en mesure de rivaliser avec la télévision. Mais les habitudes […]

This week’s International Music Summit (IMS) conference in Ibiza is showcasing all things dance, with the organiser putting out its annual IMS Business Report yesterday to update the industry on the latest electronic-music figures and trends. The figures are good. The report claims that the value of the global electronic-music industry rose by 3% in […]

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Maxime Saada, directeur général du groupe Canal + Crédits photo : LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP Les quelque 550 000 clients qui ont résilié leurs abonnements à Canal+ ont tous -à un moment ou un autre- reçu un appel de la chaîne tentant de les dissuader de passer à l’acte. Un coup de fil passé par l’un des […]

At MIDiA Research we are currently in the final stages of producing the update to our annual landmark report: The State Of The Streaming Nation, a report which compiles every streaming market data point you could possibly need. In advance of its release in June we want to give you a sneak peak into a […]

Star Wars (à l’origine nommée sous son titre français, La Guerre des étoiles) est un univers fantastique et de science-fiction créé par George Lucas. D’abord conçue comme une trilogie cinématographique sortie entre 1977 et 1983, la saga s’élargit ensuite de trois nouveaux films entre 1999 et 2005, narrant des événements antérieurs à la première trilogie. […]

Cédric Klapish, vice-président de LaCinétek et Laurent Cantet, administrateur, se sont exprimés hier sur la plage du Gray d’Albion qui accueille le CNC, pour annoncer des nouveautés de leur récent site de VoD. LaCinétek est une plateforme VoD sur laquelle sont montrés ” des films indispensables, qui ne sont plus sur le marché ” a […]

«Son of Mercy», l’album de Davido qui fait partie de ces stars courtisées par les grandes compagnies de production musicales en Afrique de l’Ouest. Ils s’appellent Davido, Serge Beynaud, DBanj ou encore Kiff no beat. Ces stars nigérianes ou ivoiriennes sont actuellement courtisées par les « majors ». Ces grandes compagnies de production musicale qui s’implantent […]

Disney CFO Christine McCarthy While studios and theater operators engage in talks about offering new-release movies earlier into the home through premium VOD, Walt Disney Studios isn’t interested in altering the traditional theatrical window, CFO Christine McCarthy told an investor group. Speaking recently at the fourth annual MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit in New York, […]

Reza Salehi-Amiri TEHRAN – Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Reza Salehi-Amiri has urged the Iranian parliament to act promptly to approve the new copyright bill that was submitted last May. “We have encountered plagiarism and difficulties in the cultural field,” said Salehi-Amiri during the 7th National Conference on Copyright, which was held at […]

Le Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA), la Direction générale des médias et des industries culturelles (DGMIC) du ministère de la Culture, le Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC), l’Association des chaînes conventionnées éditrices de services (ACCeS.) et le Syndicat National de la Publicité TéléVisée (SNPTV) se sont une nouvelle fois associés pour […]

At the recent Worldwide Radio Summit, radio marketing and research company Nuvoodoo presented new research on podcasting. The company has shared data from two recent surveys about podcast listenership. For the overall population, 9.5% of respondents spend at least one hour a day listening to podcasts. Certain demographics reported heavier use of the audio format, […]

Binded , a Blockchain-fuelled copyright platform has announced closing on a $950k round of finance bringing the company’s total capital raised to $1.5M. Investors in the round include Mistletoe, Asahi Shimbun, Vectr Ventures, M&Y Growth Partners, Tokyo Founders Fund and Social Starts. Binded is a technology platform making copyright simple. Digital photographers and artists use […]

from the copyright-office-modernization? dept The U.S. Senate is about to consider mostly pointless legislation that would make the nation’s register of copyrights—the individual who heads the U.S. Copyright Office, officially a part of the Library of Congress—a presidential appointment that would be subject to Senate confirmation. While the measure has earned praise from some in […]

Au cinéma, la musique est intimement liée à l’image. Dans une publicité, elle joue aussi un rôle essentiel et sert une fin commerciale. Elle en devient le véhicule émotionnel, cognitif. Mais comment ça marche ? Qui décide et comment ? « Oh mais c’est la musique de la pub ça non ? ». Qui n’a […]

Le service VOD de la Fnac lance FnacPLAY VR ce lundi 22 mai. Il s’agit d’une salle de cinéma virtuelle permettant de recréer l’ambiance d’une sortie cinéma. Tous les contenus vidéos proposés par la plate-forme sont compatibles avec ce nouveau service, au même tarif. Une offre composée d’un casque VR et de 5 films accompagne […]

A l’occasion du Midem de Cannes , FrenchWeb propose une série d’entreprises prometteuses dans le secteur de la musique. Elles réinventent les usages dans la consommation des contenus musicaux. La première jeune entreprise de cette série est Soundcharts . Créée en France en 2014 par David Weiszfeld, la start-up permet à l’industrie musicale de connaître […]

400 programmes achetés ont ensuite été mis à la poubelle entre 2009 et 2015 – AFP Jean Ayissi Le dernier rapport de la Cour des comptes sur les chaînes publiques dénonce des “pratiques contestables” dans les achats de programmes auprès des producteurs extérieurs. Comme à son habitude, la Cour des comptes appuie là où cela […]

When the Big Two come to play in your backyard, it’s time to up your game. Netflix and Amazon have launched a push into Europe that will likely result in some bad nights of sleep for operators, pay-TV channels and broadcasters looking themselves to do more business over the top. Both OTT players have long-term toe […]

GAFAM, acronyme constitué des géants du web « géants du numérique » les plus connus (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft)

L’accord tient en deux chiffres et une intention. Réunis ce mardi à Bruxelles pour débattre de la révision de la Directive SMA, les ministres européens de la Culture ont d’abord convenu de fixer à 30% le quota d’œuvres européennes que les plateformes de SVoD seront tenues d’intégrer à leurs catalogues, au lieu de 20% dans […]

Les contraintes imposées à la plupart des acteurs du secteur de la production et de la diffusion audiovisuelle ne sont pas appliquées à Netflix. Ces jours-ci, on apprend que le Festival de Cannes impose que les films soient présentés en salle pour être admissibles à la compétition. Mais comme la réglementation française impose qu’un film, […]

Customer satisfaction with pay-TV companies has dropped this year, finds a new report [download page] from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The index for subscription TV services fell to 64 on the ACSI’s 100-point scale, tied with internet service providers (ISPs), whose aggregate score remained unchanged from last year, for the worst score among […]

Amazon previously secured rights for motoring show The Grand Tour from the presenters behind Top Gear on Tuesday launched its new pay-TV service, Amazon Channels , which allows viewers to subscribe to individual television channels without signing a lengthy contract. Amazon Channels will be available via the existing Prime Video app to watch on smart […]

European Online Advertising continues double-digit growth and surpasses €40bn mark Amsterdam, 23 rd May 2017 – At its annual Interact conference today, IAB Europe announced that online advertising grew 12.2% in 2016 to €41.8bn establishing itself as the dominant advertising medium in Europe. The AdEx Benchmark study is the definitive guide to the state of […]

British blockchain music startup BlockPool is the company behind music-discovery service Aurovine , which has ben going since 2012. It was one of the first digital music services to tap into blockchain technology, and now it’s launching a new way to reward fans for their actions on the platform, working with rock band Superfecta . […]

EU negotiators reach compromise deal on Marrakesh Treaty On 10 May, negotiators from the European Parliament, Council and Commission reached a compromise on how to implement the Marrakesh Treaty in the European Union (EU). The Treaty will give the blind and other print disabled people better access to books. Commenting, Vice-President for the Digital Single […]

YouTube’s relationship with the music industry just got a little more testy. Major record labels are preparing to hit back at a Google-funded report that touts the value of YouTube to the music industry, ridiculing the report’s conclusion that YouTube boosts business for artists and their labels by giving them better exposure. The beef is […]

Petition calls for unified EU vision on copyright and culture. Cannes Palme d’Or contenders Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, zanavicius have joined 80 top European film-makers in a petition calling for a unified European Union vision on copyright and culture in the digital age. “We believe that European filmmaking reflects Europe’s positive values. That it can […]

Okay, maybe not spectacular. But definitely real. An article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, How a Plague on the Movie and Music Industries Became Their Chief Protector in China: Chinese search giant Baidu’s transition to creator and buyer of content has changed its priorities , sums up the change that is happening with China IP […]

Even though they are forecast to add 120 million subs in the six years, pay-TV’s leading companies are set to see revenues from subscription and PPV remain flat at around $185 billion between 2016 and 2022, says Digital TV Research. In its Global Pay-TV Operator Forecasts report, looking at the world’s leading 522 companies, the […]

The “smart money” is flashing a signal that the US economy and ultimately the financial system, are in serious trouble. CNBC and other media outlets like to focus on stocks because they tend to be more volatile and therefore more exciting. But BONDS are the “smart money” for the financial system. The Bond market is […]

En 2016, le cinéma français affiche une nouvelle fois sa bonne santé. Avec 213 millions de billets vendus, en progression de +3,6% vs 2015, c’est le pays de l’Union Européene avec les plus fortes entrées en salle. Elle observe également la 2ème plus forte fréquentation par habitant (3,3 entrées par an), juste derrière l’Irlande (3,4). […]

Voilà une nouvelle plutôt gênante pour Apple, la société Elcomsoft aurait découvert que la firme à la pomme conserverait des données, malgré un effacement par l’utilisateur. Une nouvelle qui va à l’encontre des engagements du géant américain, qui représente un risque en termes de sécurité et une violation de la politique de confidentialité de l’entreprise. […]

Les algorithmes de Niland permettent aux ordinateurs d’écouter de la musique comme le ferait un humain. Même si les concurrents de Spotify sont aujourd’hui nombreux, il reste difficile de rivaliser avec ce leader du streaming musical. Outre son catalogue important, la plateforme a également su développer des fonctionnalités de suggestions uniques, telles que la découverte […]

Un ad exchange de vidéos verticales vient de voir le jour aux États-Unis. Lancé par la plateforme supply side (SSP) vidéo Virool en partenariat avec Bidswitch, l’inventaire est disponible à plus de 150 plateformes demand side (DSP), agences et trading desks , indique un communiqué . L’explosion de l’usage du mobile a transformé la vidéo […]

À la veille du Conseil européen Culture, consacré notamment à la révision de la directive sur les services de médias audiovisuels, l’ARP et la SACD appellent la ministre de la Culture, Françoise Nyssen, à défendre une ambition forte pour le financement et la diffusion de la création européenne sur les plateformes numériques. Dans la continuité […]

miThe Department of Justice is appealing a September decision by federal judge Louis Stanton which contradicted the DOJ on the issue of fractional licensing. The DoJ filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, an action it had been planning to take for months. The Department of Justice’s August ruling […]

62% du public se dit prêt à essayer une expérience en VR, sachant que 13% des interrogés ont déjà essayé et que 21% des sondés se disent «pas intéressés» d’après des chiffres détaillés par Kantar TNS. Méthodologie : Panélistes de Toluna, online Terrain du 25/01 au 01/02 2017 Questionnaires 10 minutes 1 500 questionnaires Echantillon […]

The music industry’s supply chain is a relay race that passes information from stakeholder to stakeholder, with the goal of getting musical product from creator to fan while also assuring appropriate parties have been compensated. Exchanging the baton into the right hands efficiently is key. Relays are won in the exchange zone , where the […]

Photo d’illustration. YouTube Le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que Google a largement contribué à populariser la réalité virtuelle grâce à Youtube VR . La plateforme de partage de vidéo la plus populaire au monde propose en effet une section dédiée au contenu à 360 degrés qui connaît déjà un beau petit succès. Pour […]

In recent years, most of the discussion around YouTube and music has focused on rightsholders’ desire for greater royalties and less safe-harbour protection for Google’s video service. YouTube’s potential as a sync platform, with hundreds of thousands of creators from vloggers to gamers in need of soundtracks for their videos, has got less publicity save […]

With streaming having crossed into – pardon the pun – the mainstream, the UK industry could do without the complexity and uncertainty of Brexit’s potential impact on a largely booming business. The British music industry pre-Brexit is a little like the Yellowstone volcano: ostensibly in pretty fine shape, but dogged by the suspicion that it […]

Paying $799 for a festival? We knew ticket prices were rising but this is ridiculous, etc etc. But no: Live Nation’s new ‘festival passport’ will get you into more than 90 festivals around the world from the company, regardless of whether they are sold out. The post Live Nation launches a $799 ‘festival passport’ ticketing […]

I started my career as an internet analyst back in the period of the dot-com bubble. They were heady days in which anything seemed possible. The world was changing in unprecedented ways and the possibilities were endless. The rules that governed the old world didn’t apply. Except they did. Investors soon twigged that dot-com startups […]

Ouvert il y a cinquante ans, le mythique Club 13 de Claude Lelouch, ici dans sa salle de montage, est repris par le Moma Group qui possède déjà un autre cinéma près de l’Arc de Triomphe: l’Élysée Biarritz. Crédits photo : ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP C’est une page de l’histoire du septième art à Paris qui se […]

La nouvelle ministre de la Culture est revenue samedi chez elle, à Arles Françoise Nyssen : Le rapport éducation-culture m’importe énormément Comme chaque samedi matin, Françoise Nyssen fait son marché à Arles : ” C’est incontournable “, sourit-elle. Mais, hier, la nouvelle ministre de la Culture est accueillie par des ” bravo “, des ” […]

A la suite de la prévision de Dataxis , qui prévoit un marché à 8,5 milliards d’euros en 2022, IHS Markit estime que le marché vidéo européen sera atteindra 8,7 milliards d’euros en 2020. Le marché a progressé de 2,6% en 2016 à 7,9 milliards d’euros et continuera de progresser à un taux de 3,5% […]

In recent years, we’ve thought a lot about Apple’s iOS as a platform for music services and apps, but perhaps not as much as we should have done about Google’s Android. At the company’s opening keynote for its I/O developer conference yesterday, though, Google announced a set of milestones that are well worth discussing. The […]

Vienna-based music startup Record Bird has raised a “mid six-figure” funding round, and hired former Rdio and YouTube exec Stefan Baumschlager. The company’s service notifies music fans about new releases and content from their favourite artists, using its mobile app and Facebook Messenger chatbot. Record Bird raised its latest funding round from existing and new […]

La formation restreinte de la CNIL a prononcé une sanction de 150.000 €, rendue publique, à l’encontre des sociétés FACEBOOK INC et FACEBOOK IRELAND. En 2015, à la suite de l’annonce par FACEBOOK de la modification de sa politique d’utilisation des données, la CNIL a procédé à des contrôles sur place, sur pièces et en […]

Spotify has made another acquisition of a startup: Paris-based machine-learning firm Niland . “Niland has changed the game for how AI technology can optimise music search and recommendation capabilities and shares Spotify’s passion for surfacing the right content to the right user at the right time,” announced Spotify in a blog post . “The team […]

Gilles Babinet, “digital champion” de la France auprès de l’Union européenne. Si François Hollande restera dans l’histoire, ça pourrait bien être – aussi – pour avoir été le président qui a dû faire face à l’accélération sans précédent de l’histoire numérique de l’humanité. Le président dont le mandat aura connu le point d’inflexion marquant le […]

Guest Column: Blockchain and Music Data’s Byzantine Problem This guest column on music and blockchain technology is by Annie Lin, general counsel for Loudr . Nine generals are stationed at separate points around the walls of a massive kingdom. A majority of the generals wish to launch an attack, but in the absence of direct […]

YouTube and Facebook were squarely in the sights of Crispin Hunt, chairman of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA), as he delivered the opening address at yesterday’s Ivor Novello Awards in London. “ I want to thank YouTube and Facebook for cracking the funniest joke online: the one where they pretend they’re […]

L’association VideoLAN, qui s’occupe du développement du lecteur multimédia VLC, a décidé d’apporter son soutien au codec libre et gratuit AV1. « L’association VideoLAN s’est constamment opposée aux brevets logiciels, car ils entravent l’innovation et augmentent les coûts pour tous, sauf de quelques-uns ». C’est pourquoi l’organisation à qui l’on doit le formidable lecteur multimédia […]

  L’ACPM a le plaisir de vous adresser les chiffres de diffusion des Radios Digitales certifiés sur le mois d’avril 2017. A cette occasion, nous vous proposons un focus sur les 20 premières Radios digitales les plus diffusées en France en avril :   Lire la suite de l\\\’article www.acpm.fr

C’est avec grand plaisir que nous avons retrouvé la verve et l’enthousiasme de Jérôme Soulet, Directeur Vidéo, Télévision & Nouveaux Médias chez Gaumont, ainsi que son équipe. La firme à la marguerite confirme son statut de major-ette, comme il la qualifiait il y a quelques années, et l’engagement soutenu dans la restauration de son catalogue, […]

sacem,ca sacem 2016Communiqués La Sacem félicite Françoise Nyssen, nouvelle ministre de la Culture, et appelle de ses voeux une politique ambitieuse en matière d’enseignement de la musique à l’école Communiqués La Sacem décerne à Quincy Jones, légende de la musique, un prix spécial pour saluer l’ensemble de sa carrière Chiffres clés 1,37 milliard d’euros ont […]

Véritable tremplin propulsant des solutions innovantes qui façonnent le visage de l’industrie musicale, le Midemlab célèbre cette année son dixième anniversaire. La compétition offre aux finalistes une occasion unique de rencontrer de potentiels investisseurs et d’entrer en contact avec les décideurs de l’industrie musicale. Grâce au Midemlab, les participants des éditions passées ont pu réaliser […]

Benjamin Costantini a fondé le programme d’accélération Startup Sesame en 2015. Ce programme propose aux start-up de se développer par le biais de conférence. Startup Sesame a noué des partenariats avec 25 événements dans le monde et les jeunes pousses sélectionnées peuvent y assister gratuitement. FrenchWeb a rencontré Benjamin Costantini lors de l’événement Leade.rs à […]

Deux ou trois notes. En général, il ne nous en faut pas plus. Deux ou trois notes qui éveillent en nous tout un faisceau de souvenirs. Deux ou trois notes, puis survient le désir presque irrépressible d’accompagner la mélodie, de tapoter en rythme, de fermer les yeux un instant afin de voir resurgir un monde […]

Spectacle Le décret n° 2017-1049 du 10 mai 2017 relatif à la participation d’amateurs à des représentations d’une œuvre de l’esprit dans un cadre lucratif a été publié au Journal officiel. Il précise les conditions dans lesquelles les entrepreneurs de spectacle peuvent faire participer des amateurs à ces spectacles sans être tenues de les rémunérer. […]

Réuni en plénière ce 18 mai à Strasbourg, le Parlement européen a donné un mandat à sa commission de la culture pour négocier avec le Conseil un ensemble d’amendements à la nouvelle directive sur les services de médias audiovisuels. Déjà adoptés en commission parlementaire le 25 avril dernier ( communiqué ), ces amendements visent à […]

After a quiet period in which music and media assets in general were perceived to be in irreversible decline, the narrative is suddenly changing. The boost in revenue from streaming and the allure of consistent income that comes with the transition to recurring subscription revenue seems to have provided new impetus to the investment landscape […]

When it comes to discovering music you’ll love, few companies do it better than Pandora. From the core of its Music Genome Project, which studies over 450 different musical attributes to find songs according to each listener’s unique tastes, to its Thumbprint Radio, which creates a station based on other songs you’ve liked, Pandora leverages […]

For the past 13 months, the UK’s Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Limited (MCPS) has been considering its options. Back on 1st April, 2016 MCPS published a Request for Proposals (RfP) inviting third-parties to tender for administration of areas of its business and all back-office operations. The process could have seen the body split with its […]

1°) d’annuler pour excès de pouvoir la décision n° 2015-232 du 27 mai 2015 par laquelle le Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) l’a mise en demeure de ne pas s’opposer à la reprise par la société Playmédia, en application de l’article 34-2 de la loi du 30 septembre 1986, sur son site internet playtv.fr, des […]

Les chaînes de télévision publiques suivent le train de la fin de la télévision linéaire dessinée par la SVOD de Netflix et Amazon. La nouvelle plate-forme vidéo du groupe audiovisuel public France Télévisions va regrouper le direct, le replay, la vente à l’acte, des contenus exclusifs ou en avant première. Elle avait promis d’en finir […]

Hulu can’t really experiment with using video clips in its user experience without running into “Guild issues.” NEW YORK—Hulu is just getting its live TV product off the ground, but it’s hoping to differentiate from other pay TV services by putting the user experience first. Hulu CTO Tian Lim, speaking today at Streaming Media East, […]

SFR va « passer à la vitesse supérieure dans le cinéma et les séries ». Michel Combes, directeur général d’Altice, maison-mère de SFR, a annoncé que le groupe allait lancer une chaîne de télévision, dans un entretien au Figaro mercredi 17 mai. « Nous lancerons à la fin de l’été SFR Studio, une chaîne dédiée […]

Candidat, Emmanuel Macron avait annoncé son souhait d’amplifier la dynamique de l’innovation et de réformer le fonctionnement de l’État en actionnant le levier du digital dans tous les pans de l’action publique. Gouvernance, culture, startup, GAFA : panorama des principaux chantiers de Mounir Mahjoubi, nouveau secrétaire d’état au numérique. Sous le quinquennat Macron, lequel arrive […]

Official logo for the Definition of Free Cultural Works EFF has learned about a new proposal for European law that takes aim at online streaming services, but which will strike a serious blow to creators and their fans. The proposal, which would effectively ban online streaming services from hosting works under free licenses, could spell […]

Children listen to a teacher’s piano performance during a music lesson at a Yamaha Music Foundation school. Yamaha has 3,300 outlets across Japan. | YAMAHA MUSIC FOUNDATION A group of major private music school operators said Tuesday they intend to take legal action against Japan’s largest copyright collection group after it emerged it would from […]

After securing licensing deals with Universal and Warner , high-resolution audio firm MQA has struck a multi-year agreement with independent label body Merlin. The partnership will enable the number of independent labels represented by Merlin to encode their master recordings in MQA’s master quality audio technology. MQA is currently available to exclusively stream on Tidal […]

I. Etat des lieux du secteur cinéma français en 2016 1. Les recettes Il est difficile de proposer des améliorations de la chronologie des médias sans s’intéresser au secteur tout entier et ce que chaque acteur représente en termes de revenus et d’investissements. Commençons par le chiffre d’affaires des différentes parties de l’exploitation d’une oeuvre […]

Amazon Music Vice President Steve Boom shot down the idea that Amazon’s music arm would become its own record label at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. It’s a question that he gets a lot, Boom told TechCrunch’s Josh Constine, largely in part because of Amazon Studios, the company’s television and film production arm. But Amazon views […]

Mega-music publisher Sony/ATV yesterday announced a number of upgrades to its royalties portal in a bid to give the songwriters it represents “access to the most comprehensive and transparent data available about their earnings”. Good times. Most music publishers have been busy in recent years honing their royalty reporting systems for songwriters, mainly as a […]

Gartner, a leading research and advisory firm, sees significant potential in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and consider it to be one of the ‘Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017’. Speaking at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on the Gold Coast, David Furlonger, research vice president and Gartner Fellow, said the implications of blockchain technology for our society […]

En guise de « mission statement », le dossier de presse de e-cinema.com explique : « Le cinéma en France évolue, comme dans le monde, vers une consommation plus facile, rapide, économique : le ecinéma propose aux spectateurs de découvrir chez eux des films inédits, jamais sortis en salles. Il ne s’agit pas ici de […]

En février dernier, Martin Bouygues affirmait : “la situation de Bouygues Telecom est redevenue saine”. Mieux, “la période très difficile que nous avons connue est terminée. C’est le retour au calme après la tempête”, à l’occasion de la présentation des résultats 2016 de son groupe. Et le premier trimestre 2017 semble confirmer cette vision malgré […]

texte n° 212 Décret n° 2017-1046 du 10 mai 2017 instituant un dispositif de soutien à l’emploi dans le secteur de l’édition phonographique NOR: MCCB1712314D ELI: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2017/5/10/MCCB1712314D/jo/texte Alias: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2017/5/10/2017-1046/jo/texte Publics concernés : entreprises de moins de dix salariés équivalents temps plein annuels et dont le chiffre d’affaires annuel ou le bilan annuel n’excède pas deux […]

Alors que nous fêtions le 25 mars les 60 ans du texte fondateur de l’Union européenne, Mme Comodini Cachia, eurodéputée maltaise du PPE (affiliation européenne du parti Les Républicains) présentait ses amendements sur la réforme du droit d’auteur dans le marché unique numérique. Ces propositions remettent en question l’important travail entrepris par la Sacem et […]

China may just be the most fascinating digital-music market of 2017: a status enhanced by yesterday’s announcement of a partnership between Universal Music Group and tech giant Tencent’s Music Entertainment group (TME for short). The deal will see TME distributing UMG’s music on its QQ Music, Kugou and Kuwo streaming services, as well as sub-licensing […]

Netflix customers in Australia could soon be facing steeper monthly charges. The popular streaming service on Monday confirmed that it recently tested higher subscription prices for new customers in Australia. The company—which has nearly 100 million global subscribers and expanded to Australia in 2015—has reportedly tested raising prices for new subscribers by as much as […]

The market for e-sports video continues its rapid growth worldwide. Total hours viewed in the genre exceeded 6 billion globally in 2016, up 19% from 2015, according to a new report entitled Esports and The Future of TV from IHS Markit. Online viewing is driving the esports video market, accounting for more than 85% of […]

En avril 2017, le public des salles de cinéma est principalement composé d’hommes (54,1 %, contre 52,8 % en mars 2017). La part des moins de 15 ans dans le public du mois d’avril 2017 (16,2 %) est en hausse par rapport au mois de mars (12,1 %), en raison des vacances scolaires. En cumul […]

texte n° 226 Arrêté du 5 mai 2017 fixant le cahier missions et des charges relatif au label « Scène de Musiques Actuelles-SMAC » NOR: MCCB1713569A La ministre de la culture et de la communication, Vu le code pénal , notamment son article 225-1 ; Vu la loi n° 2016-925 du 7 juillet 2016 modifiée […]

A recent federal appeals court decision may lead online platforms that post user-generated content filtered by moderators to think twice before posting copyrighted material. In Mavrix Photographs, LLC v. LiveJournal, Inc., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (“DMCA”) safe harbor for “infringement of copyright by reason of […]

La chaîne TF1 a signé avec la régie publicitaire Transfer un accord de commercialisation de ses espaces publicitaires Lire la suite de l\\\’article www.groupe-tf1.fr

Patrick Drahi, le propriétaire d’Altice, la maison-mère de SFR. (Crédits : Reuters) Sur le front des contenus, SFR a frappé très, très fort. Le groupe de Patrick Drahi vient de rafler les droits exclusifs de la Ligue des champions et de sa petite sœur, la ligue Europa, pour la période 2018-2021. Dans un communiqué, l’opérateur […]

Universal Music Group has posted its Q1 2017 results. Quarterly revenue rose 12.7% on a constant currency basis, growing to 1.28 billion euros ($1.36 billion) from almost 1.12 billion euros ($1.22 billion) in Q1 2016. Digital revenue for the period reached 622 million euros ($659.3 million), up from 504 million euros ($551.4 million) in the […]

Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify Spotify has decided to move forward with a direct listing, rather than a traditional IPO, when it goes public later this year or early next, according to multiple reports . While the music streaming service declined to comment on timing, a spokesperson did confirm it has hired Morgan Stanley, Goldman […]

The annual survey by Ovum publication Music & Copyright of the recorded music and music publishing sectors has revealed the changes in global market share for the three major music groups and the independent sector. For the second consecutive year, recorded-music leader UMG lost market share, while smaller major WMG closed the gap on second-placed […]

• Total revenue grew 10.7% or was up 12.7% in constant currency • Digital revenue grew 21.9% or was up 23.3% in constant currency • Net income was $20 million versus $12 million in the prior-year quarter • OIBDA was $141 million versus $127 million in the prior-year quarter Warner Music Group Corp. today announced […]

 SoundExchange has acquired Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA). The music licensing collective represents 85% of all songs recorded, sold and broadcast in Canada on behalf of music publishers. This move marks SoundExchange’s first expansion into the collective management of music publishing rights. CMRAA offers the Canadian music industry services similar to those of […]

At the sixth session of the CDIP, member states agreed to establish the Database on Flexibilities in the Intellectual Property (IP) System. It contains data drawn from WIPO documents on Patent Related Flexibilities in the Multilateral Legal Framework and their Legislative Implementation at the National and Regional Levels (namely CDIP/5/4 Rev. , CDIP/7/3 Add , […]

FinTech Network recently published a report explaining potential applications of blockchain, called: Four Blockchain Use Cases for Banks . The report explains how a blockchain enables the creation of a ‘digital ledger’, which allows participants within its network to access the ledger without a central authority or ‘middleman’ to enable payments. The technology uses cryptography […]

Le big data est une cible mouvante et il se manifeste par vagues : une vague reflue et, avant que les choses n’aient eu le temps de se tasser, une nouvelle vague de paradigmes de traitement des données arrive. La diffusion en continu (streaming), également appelée traitement des données en temps réel ou sans limites, […]

Temps, espace, autorité, pouvoir, savoir, confiance, économie. Le numérique bouleverse nos valeurs cardinales A l’occasion de nos Rencontres bi-annuelles et en vue de notre festival Futur en Seine (du 8 au 18 juin 2017), Stéphane Distinguin et toute l’équipe de Cap Digital vous présentent notre cartographie des tendances du numérique , édition 2017/2018. Véritable observatoire […]

Au début du mois de mars, Spotify annoncait avoir dépassé les 50 millions d’abonnés. Le site de musique en streaming se place donc en leader mondial loin devant Apple Music (20 millions d’abonnés), le Français Deezer (7 millions) et Pandora (4 millions d’abonnés). Apple Music, avec iTunes, dépasse déjà les 20 millions d’abonnés alors que […]

Introduction Hyper-connectivité, main d’œuvre élargie, collaborations transversales… La transformation digitale accompagne aussi les mutations du métier de Responsable des Ressources Humaines. Revue de ces transitions actuelles et des tendances phares qui vont s’implanter en France. Afin de s’adapter aux exigences des nouvelles générations d’employés, répondre à l’appétence des collaborateurs en termes de leviers de communication […]

Introduction YouTube prévoit de nouveaux shows originaux pour son offre gratuite, Snapchat commande des productions vidéo aux plus grands studios du moment et Facebook s’apprêterait à lancer Facebook TV. Mais jusqu’où iront-ils ? Tandis que Facebook déclare la guerre à Netflix et Amazon Prime sur le terrain des séries à la demande, Snapchat et YouTube […]

The news made the rounds in early April. “ America’s Retailers Are Closing Stores Faster Than Ever ” read a Bloomberg headline. “These 21 Retailers Are Closing 3,591 Stores — Who Is Next?” wrote Forbes. It felt like the end of an era for many. Back in 1998, I worked at a company called Snickelways […]

Fresh off a pact to license music to YouTube, Warner Music boss Steve Cooper is turning his attention to music streamer Spotify — and a deal could be signed by June. Sources tell On the Money that Warner and Spotify are getting this close to a new royalty agreement. If inked, Daniel Ek’s Spotify would […]

Rarement une entreprise qui ne propose pas encore ses services en France aura autant fait parler d’elle dans notre pays. Il ne se passe pas un jour sans que les journaux, blogs ou autres sites d’informations rapportent les performances de Netflix aux États-Unis tout en faisant gonfler les rumeurs de son installation prochaine dans l’hexagone […]

Lucky duckies Google wants you to believe that free music on YouTube doesn’t deter people from paying for the same music somewhere else. Pull the other one, it’s got bells on, the music industry has replied. Google commissioned RBB Economics to produce a report, which we’ve seen in full, examining the effect of cannibalisation on […]

Zoom «The Meyerowitz Stories» de Noah Baumbach, produit par Netflix, a été sélectionné au Festival de Cannes alors qu’il ne sortira pas en salle. Netflix va-t-il changer les règles du cinéma français ? Pas encore. Mais le bras de fer qu’il vient de livrer avec le Festival de Cannes pourrait n’être qu’une première manche. Le […]

Bilan 2016 du CNC les films, les programmes audiovisuels, la vidéo, l’exploitation, la production, la distribution, l’exportation… Lire la suite de l\\\’article www.cnc.fr télécharger le document (12264 Ko)  

SPOTIFY POURRAIT ENTRER EN BOURSE SANS INTERMÉDIAIRES (Reuters) – Spotify, le numéro un mondial de la musique en streaming dont la dernière valorisation en date était de 13 milliards de dollars (11,9 milliards d’euros), sera la première grande entreprise à opter pour une introduction en Bourse directe sur le New York Stock Exchange, sans passer […]

David Israelite In the midst of record labels reporting revenue growth, and with music streaming companies like Spotify and Apple Music touting more paid subscribers, songwriters and music publishers are continuing their lengthy fight to be paid a fair share of royalties. We thought this would be a good time to speak again with David […]

Mozilla continues its march for better copyrights laws in Europe and the company is back with yet another online campaign. This time it wants your help to drop millions of virtual leaflets from the sky to let EU officials know that outdated copyright laws are “threatening the health of the internet.” Teaming up with Dutch […]

IMPALA has urged the European Commission to ensure its upcoming digital single market proposals are not ‘watered-down’ when tackling copyright reform. The statement comes as the Commission published its mid-term review of the digital single market, evaluating the progress made so far. A set of proposals and recommendations tackling online platforms and their conduct towards […]

11/05/2017 : Press release – Cinema box office takings in the EU remained above EUR 7 billion in 2016 as admissions approached the magical 1 billion barrier EU gross box office fell slightly to EUR 7.04 billion in 2016, while admissions rose to 991 million – highest level in the EU since 2004 Family animation […]

At least since the time that media and entertainment companies worried about Microsoft using its PC monopoly to make itself the gatekeeper for all digital content, it has created a potential imbalance of power in the digital economy. Yet the key questions are unresolved. How much value should the platforms suck out of the digital […]

YouTube’s website in March of 2010. (Richard Vogel / Associated Press) Suppose a band spends months making an album in expensive recording studios, and the band’s record label releases the album on iTunes. Imagine that, by the end of the first day, all the music has been posted on YouTube, where it is available for […]

We’ve heard a lot about YouTube and the ‘value gap’ from music rightsholders in recent months, but now YouTube is opening up a new line of defence against criticism from the music industry. Google’s video service has commissioned competition-law specialist RBB Economics to write a series of papers exploring YouTube’s impact on the music industry. […]

eSports ad industry worth $280m in 2016 / Red Bull Competitive online gaming in 2016 attracted $280m of ad dollars from big advertisers in 2016 with the capital primarily funneled into video, influencer marketing and sponsorship. By 2021, eSports will attract more than $1bn of ad revenue from brands as the young industry continues to […]

Une liste d’une centaine d’amendements déposés par les eurodéputés sur la révision de la directive sur le droit d’auteur de la Commission laisse entrevoir les querelles sur les plateformes en ligne et l’exploration des données. Plus de 80 des amendements appellent à des changements sur l’un des articles du projet de loi sur les droits […]

Bon nombre des propositions d’Emmanuel Macron incluent l’Union européenne. Concernant les GAFAM, il veut œuvrer en faveur d’une taxe européenne sur le chiffre d’affaires des géants du net. Il envisage aussi proposer la création d’une Agence européenne pour la confiance numérique, qui devra réguler les grandes plateformes et protéger les données personnelles. Pour la presse, […]

San Francisco-based Tubi TV has raised an additional $20 million for its advertising-supported streaming service for TV and movies. Investors in the round are betting on the fact that the next big streaming competitor won’t be a direct rival to Netflix and others with a subscription-based business model, but rather a free service that offers […]

Cet accord instaure des clés fixes de répartition entre les droits d’auteur gérés par l’éditeur d’une œuvre littéraire et ceux gérés par la SACD pour le compte des auteurs de l’œuvre audiovisuelle adaptée (scénaristes, réalisateur, auteurs graphiques…). Les auteurs et les éditeurs bénéficient ainsi d’un cadre sécurisé, prévisible et pérenne pour la répartition des droits […]

Today, music industry powerhouse Kobalt Music Group announced a new massive growth capital round has been completed. The fundraising round that comes in at $75 million, which is an impressive sum for any company in the music space. The round was led by Hearst Entertainment, which is somewhat surprising, given the fact that the two firms […]

Lors de sa dernière assemblée plénière, les 4 et 5 avril, le groupe de travail des autorités de protection des données personnelles des États membres de l’Union européenne, prévu par l’article 29 de la directive de 1995, dit G29 a adopté certaines “lignes directrices” pour faciliter l’adoption du nouveau cadre juridique issu du Règlement général […]

Suite à la consultation publique sur le règlement européen sur la protection des données (RGDP) en juin 2016, le groupe de travail de l’article 29 (G29) a adopté des lignes directrices (1) et des Faq (2) sur différentes thématiques et notamment sur le délégué à la protection des données (DPO).Anticiper le règlement en éclaircissant la […]

France.tv préfigure la future offre publique de vidéo à la demande par abonnement. L’objectif du groupe télévisuel est d’atteindre un milliard de vidéos vues en 2020. France Télévisions Atteindre un milliard de vidéos vues chaque mois en 2020, contre un peu moins de 500 millions aujourd’hui : c’est l’objectif que s’est fixé France Télévisions dans […]

The MBW Review gives our take on some of the music biz’s biggest recent goings-on. This time, we consider why Warner felt it had little choice but to sign a deal with YouTube – and the repercussion of the decision. The MBW Review is supported by FUGA . On Friday evening, MBW broke the news […]

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Partner Content Contributed By Hadassa Gerber Until recently there has been no coordinated effort to align TV measurement and digital measurement in the media industry. Nielsen began measuring television back in 1950 and has kept its television measurement distinct despite the rise of digital media. The development of digital measurement arose independently and organically based […]

Spotify CEO Daniel EK. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple and Google are the two biggest companies in mobile, and some rivals think they’re abusing that power. The chief executives of European tech firms including Spotify, Deezer, and the German startup factory Rocket Internet wrote to the EU complaining that big internet firms “can and do abuse […]

Amazon today announced ‘Amazon Prime Live Events’, a series of smaller capacity gigs by largely heritage acts made available exclusively to Amazon Prime members in the UK. The first wave of artists include Blondie, Alison Moyet and Texas. Putting aside for a moment the obvious ‘it’s iTunes Festival for old people’ jibe, there is some […]

To say we work with a lot of data now is an understatement. Multifaceted media organisations have hundreds of data sources and are processing massive amounts of data daily . As the new music economy moves ahead we’re coming up against challenges that will only multiply as our industry grows. Two of the most glaring […]

La technologie pourrait permettre au marché de sortir de la crise de confiance en apportant de la transparence aux annonceurs et des recettes supplémentaires aux éditeurs. Souvent associée aux monnaies cryptées, bitcoin en tête, la blockchain commence à susciter l’intérêt d’un marché de la publicité confronté à la fraude et au manque de transparence. Un […]

Comme tous les ans, le Délégué général du Festival de Cannes a présenté la sélection de films qui participeront à la compétition. Cette année, la sélection annoncée par Thierry Frémaux a relancé une vieille polémique française, puisque deux films sur les dix-huit sélectionnés appartiennent à Netflix. The Meyerowitz Stories réalisé par Noah Baumbach et Okja […]

04/04/2017 : Press release – Is VoD growing the film pie? The impact of VoD on the Film Value Chain The European Audiovisual Observatory announces this year’s Cannes conference! The European Audiovisual Observatory is focusing on the impact of VoD on the film value chain in this year’s Cannes conference. This year’s must- attend conference […]

Dans le cadre du prochain départ de Laetitia Recayte, Directrice du développement commercial de France Télévisions en charge des trois filiales du groupe (MFP, FTD et FTP), France Télévisions annonce l’arrivée de Julien Verley qui rejoindra le groupe mardi 9 mai. Les prochaines semaines seront consacrées à la passation des dossiers entre les deux dirigeants, […]

Distribution specialist The Orchard, which is owned by Sony, has acquired two independent distributors in the form of Germany’s Finetunes and Phonofile AS of Norway, which will each become wholly owned subsidiaries of The Orchard. The deal will see both companies become wholly owned subsidiaries of The Orchard, expanding its presence across Europe. Labels distributed […]

British performance rights organisation (PRO) PRS for Music launched an online tool aimed at helping members performing overseas to negotiate fair royalty payments. The new ‘live concert tool’ automatically calculates a country’s local live tariff, ensuring the correct tariff is applied and providing users with estimates of royalty value per concert. It can also be […]

SOCAN is pleased to announce that Onix Belleus is the company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Belleus joins SOCAN, the largest organization in Canada’s music ecosystem, continuing his comprehensive and accomplished career in the United States and Canada, most recently serving as Vice-President, Finance & Administration, with Target Corporation in Minneapolis. In this role he oversaw […]

To make a claim under any of the below schemes log on to your online account and click on the ‘report live performance’ button. Make a claim under the Gigs, Clubs and Small Venues scheme if your songs or compositions have been performed in any of the following small venues: Pubs Clubs Music Societies Community […]

Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria chairperson Orits Wiliki. Photo: Facebook The directive follows a near three-decade long bid for approval by the MCSN. Alongside this appeal, the MCSN had also sought to prevent the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) from claiming to be the only body empowered by law to be Nigeria’s collection establishment. In […]

Gema, Germany’s performance rights organisation (PRO) and collection society, last year collected more than €1 billion for the first time, its annual accounts reveal. A total of €1.02bn was collected in 2016 on behalf of rightsholders, with the 15% year-on-year increase mainly attributable to a deal struck in November between Gema and YouTube , which […]

Kodas indtægter fra streaming er steget med 49 procent fra 2015 til 2016. Udlandet har med Lukas Graham, Mø og de danske filmkomponister i førertrøjen for alvor fået øjnene op for den danske musikscene. Samtidig streamer danskerne og går til koncerter som aldrig før, og denne stigende trang efter musik i alle former og formater […]

Laurent Hubert will replace Richard Sanders as President/Chief Revenue Officer for Kobalt Music Group, effective immediately, the company confirmed to Variety. Hubert came aboard last year to run the company’s newly formed B2B right management platform and investment division. He was previously President, Marketing & Creative, at BMG, and before that Chief Operating Officer at […]

TF1 a demandé à ces distributeurs de « cesser l’exploitation commerciale » de ses chaînes. Mais il n’y a pas eu d’écran noir. Le CSA appelé à trancher. L’utlimatum a expiré mais il n’y a pas eu d’écran noir. TF1 a ainsi bien demandé, dimanche 30 avril, à SFR et Canal de « cesser l’exploitation […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers its customers several methods designed to cost-effectively deliver on-demand video content to a global audience. These methods help enable you to dynamically scale any combination of video processing, delivery, and storage services on the AWS Cloud. This webpage provides best practices and guidance to consider when implementing a video-on-demand workflow […]

You can now take Netflix on the road Netflix is closing in on a major milestone. Netflix ( NFLX , Tech30 ) added 5 million members globally in the first quarter of 2017, bringing its total subscriber base to just shy of 99 million users. That comes on the heels of Netflix’s biggest quarter for […]

日本音楽著作権協会（JASRAC）が音楽教室などで楽曲を使用する際にも著作権料を徴収する 方針を決めた ことを受けて、ヤマハ音楽振興会などがつくる団体「音楽教育を守る会」が3月27日、JASRACの動きにに反対する 署名活動を始めた 。JASRACが文化庁に使用料規程案を届け出た場合、取り下げの指導を求める請願をするという。 同会は「音楽教育の場から演奏著作権使用料が徴収されるようになれば、教室で使用する楽曲の選択に影響が生じることで、幅広いジャンルの音楽を学ぶ機会も減少し、音楽愛好家や演奏人口の減少に繋がります」などと主張。 署名サイト などを通じて、6月末までに50万の署名を集めることを目標としている。 ■JASRACがどういう根拠で著作権を徴収しようとしている？ 著作権法では、公衆に聞かせることを目的に、楽曲を演奏したり歌ったりするという「演奏権」について、作曲家や作詞家が専有すると 定めている 。この演奏権を根拠にこれまでJASRACでは、コンサートでの演奏やカラオケでの歌唱などでも著作権使用料を徴収している Lire la suite de l\\\’article www.huffingtonpost.jp

L’ACPM a le plaisir de vous adresser les chiffres de diffusion des Radios Digitales certifiés sur le mois de février 2017. Les Radios adhérentes totalisent plus de 107 millions de sessions d’écoutes en France , dont 75 millions pour les Radios Digitales Hertziennes. Nous vous proposons un focus sur les 20 premières Lire la suite […]

“Today, outside of the vinyl LP resurgence, there are no indications the playlist won’t be streaming’s standard unit for the foreseeable future,” writes Pandora’s music insights and analytics man Glenn Peoples in his latest blog post on Medium . The post is flagging up Pandora’s ‘Add Similar Songs’ feature on its new Premium tier, which […]

twitter,reseaux sociauTwitter is considering offering a paid subscription to power users, including brands and news organizations, The Verge has confirmed. Twitter users today began tweeting screenshots of the survey and a mock-up of what the premium version of Twitter could look like, with new analytics, alerts about breaking news, and information about what an account’s […]

Canal Digital is giving customers access to complete series of popular TV shows. The Nordic satellite platform has signed agreements with Disney, Fox Networks Group Europe & Africa, Viacom, Discovery, Turner, BBC and ABC Studios. Shows previously part of subscriptions ranging from SEK 77 to SEK 99 are now included in the family package. “We […]

0 Le Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC) vient de publier son bilan 2016 sur l’économie de la télévision de rattrapage (TVR) en France. Ainsi, sur la période, sa consommation a-t-elle progressé de 27,1%, à 6,5 milliards de vidéos vues sur un panel de 23 chaines dont 18 chaines nationales. 17,7 millions […]

Le Parlement européen à Bruxelles a démarré mercredi les discussions sur la réforme du droit d’auteur. Crédits photo : GERARD CERLES/AFP Le Parlement européen s’est saisi, depuis mercredi, du projet de réforme du doit d’auteur qui doit être mis en place à terme par la Commission. Et, surprise, le principe du «droit voisin», qui doit […]

Jean-Marie Charon Reporters sans frontières (RSF) et le collectif « Informer n’est pas un délit » organisent ce mercredi 5 avril une journée pour protéger la liberté et l’indépendance de l’information . Les deux organisations interpellent notamment les candidats à l’élection présidentielle sur ce sujet et listent cinq recommandations : lutter contre la concentration des […]

Netflix/Business Insider In just a decade, Netflix has grown from a video service with seven million U.S. subscribers to one that reaches 93 million people worldwide. Its growth and ability to break into well-established industries – first video rental, now television and film – is a rare accomplishment. In my book “ Portals: A Treatise […]

CEO Elizabeth Matthews: “ASCAP is committed to transforming and innovating to secure a healthy future for music creators and publishers.” NEW YORK, April 5, 2017 – ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the only member-owned performing rights organization in the U.S., representing over 600,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, today announced record-breaking […]

L’émirat a de nouveau mis la main à la poche en décembre pour couvrir les pertes colossales enregistrées par son bouquet payant de chaînes sportives en France. La maison mère de beIN Sports sort de nouveau le chéquier. Selon une information de Libération , Doha a injecté 600 millions d’euros dans son bouquet français de […]

Depuis plusieurs années, plusieurs litiges relatifs à la classification de films ont été initiés par l’Association Promouvoir qui entend empêcher l’accès des mineurs à un certain nombre de films (notamment Nymphomaniac, Antichrist ou plus récemment La vie d’Adèle et Love). Elle a ainsi contesté à plusieurs reprises devant les juridictions administrative le visa d’exploitation attribué […]

As it faces increased competition from services like Apple Music and Spotify, SoundCloud is reportedly running out of money. According to a new report from Recode , SoundCloud has been trying to raise more than $100 million since last summer, but has ultimately been unable to do so… News of SoundCloud’s struggle isn’t necessarily new, […]

Copyright rapporteur Therese Comodini Cachia with Guenther Oettinger, former digital commissioner. (Photo: European Parliament) The European Parliament looks set to bury the centrepieces of the European Commission’s copyright reform. According to a leaked report seen by EUobserver, the Maltese centre-right deputy and rapporteur Therese Comodini Cachia will suggest to scrap plans for extra rights to […]

Nous avons eu le plaisir d’échanger avec Delphine Reynaud EMEA Marketing Director chez Traackr à l’occasion de la récente étude de ces derniers, en partenariat avec TopRank Marketing et Brian Solis d’ Altimeter , “ Influence 2.0: Le Futur du Marketing d’Influence ”. Stratégiste en développement, Delphine est une spécialiste de l’expérience et de l’engagement. […]

Programmatic advertising will grow 31% in 2017, faster than all other digital channels, according to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts, ://www.zenithmedia.com/product/programmatic-marketing-forecasts-2016/ This report, which covers 41 key advertising markets, estimates that programmatic will grow comfortably faster than social media (which will grow 25%) and online video (20%) – and a growing proportion of these other channels […]

or years now, the numbers of minutes of live and time shifted TV watched by Americans over the age of 18 has been falling steadily: in Q3 2012 adult Americans watched 5 hours and 14 minutes of TV per day, and by Q3 2015 it was down to 4 hours and 35 minutes. That decline […]

Bruxelles (awp/afp) – Le premier groupe audiovisuel européen, RTL Group, a indiqué jeudi viser une croissance modérée de son chiffre d’affaires et un bénéfice d’exploitation stable en 2017, après une année 2016 qualifiée de “record” malgré un bénéfice net moindre. Pour 2017, RTL s’attend à “une hausse comprise entre 2,5 et 5% de son chiffre […]

Last week Facebook started to roll out a feature which allows users to flag content as ‘disputed’, in a bid to mitigate the circulation of fake news on the site. Stories flagged by users will then be passed onto Facebook’s partner fact-checking organizations, which are signatories to the Poynter’s international fact-checking code of principles. If […]

Nouvelles positives pour le secteur de la musique en Belgique : BEA Music et GfK constatent, pour 2016, une croissance de près de 7% (6,9%) des ventes de musique, principalement grâce à la forte croissance de la musique en streaming payant (+64,3%) grâce à des plateformes tels que Apple Music, Deezer ou Spotify. Le duo […]

S’intéresser au droit d’auteur impose parfois d’analyser d’autres matières juridiques, comme la fiscalité. Et plus précisément ici la TVA. La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne vient de rendre en la matière en décidant que la collecte de la copie privée est une opération hors champ d’application de la TVA. Tentons d’y voir plus clair. […]

Les droits des artistes interprètes ou exécutants ont été modifiés suite à une directive européenne de 2011. Dorénavant, les artistes auront droit à une rémunération supplémentaire annuelle 50 ans après la publication de leur phonogramme. Le Moniteur belge vient de publier un arrêté royal (AR) exécutant cette disposition. Explications. Une rémunération supplémentaire 50 ans après […]

Elles sont loin les années où le marché français et le marché allemand étaient de taille quasiment équivalente. Même en baisse, le marché allemand a atteint 1,77 milliard d’euros de recettes en 2016, contre 1,83 en 2015, soit une baisse de l’ordre de 3%. Dans le même temps, le marché français continue de s’enfoncer à […]

Bill Gates knows what’s up. Mike Nudelman/Business Insider Nineteen ninety-four was a big year for Bill Gates. The newly married billionaire landed on top of Forbes’ list of the richest Americans. Microsoft was on the brink of becoming the technology powerhouse it is today. Something else notable happened in ’94: Gates gave an interview to […]

http://veilleip.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Logo-Ministère-Culture.jpgCharte de bonnes pratiques dans la publicité pour le respect du droit d’auteur et des droits voisins – Remise du rapport d’activité 2015-2016 Le Comité de suivi de la Charte des bonnes pratiques dans la publicité en ligne pour le respect du droit d’auteur et des droits voisins a remis le 24 février 2017 à […]

La société suédoise de musique en ligne a gagné 25% d’abonnés en six mois mais elle ne gagne toujours pas d’argent. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP Spotify est plus que jamais le numéro un du secteur de la musique en ligne par abonnement. La société basée à Stockholm a annoncé jeudi 2 mars qu’elle comptait désormais […]

The City Of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit – aka PIPCU – reckons that there was a 64% decrease in the amount of cash going from top ad spending companies in the UK to copyright infringing websites last year. Since its launch in 2013, PIPCU has been an advocate of the ‘follow the money’ […]

Annus mirabilis. Quelques jours après l’annonce des résultats financiers particulièrement moroses de TF1, c’était au tour de sa meilleure ennemie, M6 , de dévoiler les siens hier. Et, comme attendu par les observateurs, le contraste est criant. Alors que la Une fait grise mine et rêve désespérément de la rentabilité de la Six , cette […]

Les ventes de CD continuent à baisser en France, mais les revenus du streaming bondissent. L’Hexagone compte 3,9 millions d’abonnés, ce qui lui laisse encore une marge de progression. En crise depuis le début des années 2000 à cause du piratage et de l’émergence de sites comme Napster, le marché de la musique enregistrée est […]

Getty Images Members of performing rights organization SOCAN have until the end of May to claim their portion of the royalties, held by YouTube in an escrow account. The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has alerted its members that they have a three-month window to make a claim to receive […]

Facebook Inc.’s plans for video programming are starting to come into focus. Executives for the social-media giant are soliciting pitches for TV-like original programming in about half a dozen genres, including sports, science, pop culture, lifestyle, gaming and teens, people familiar with the matter said. The company is mainly interested in weekly series, with episodes […]

The European Parliament, the European Commission and member states have reached an agreement on implementing new rules to enable content portability, allowing EU citizens to view services they subscribe to no matter where they are in the Union. The deal is the first covering the modernisation of EU copyright rules proposed in the EU’s Digital […]

Google and Comcast announced a new deal this morning that will see the YouTube application installed on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 set-top boxes nationwide later this year. The integration will allow X1 users to launch the app by saying “YouTube” into the X1 voice remote, as well as browse featured content on YouTube, search the entire […]

Best known in the music industry for powering download and streaming platforms, 7digital is to rebrand most of its content production divisions, which have in the past used different names like Smooth Operations, Unique and Above The Title. 7digital moved into radio programming and content production via its 2014 merger with UBC Media, whose co-founder […]

APRA AMCOS and Sydney-based independent music publisher ORiGiN Music (Wally De Backer, Cookin’ On Three Burners, James Morrison) have signed a Pan-Asian digital and online rights licensing and administration agreement. Under the agreement, APRA AMCOS will represent ORiGiN and its represented publishing catalogues, including the recently signed Bucks Music catalogue, on a multi-territory basis throughout […]

In what the winning party is calling a landmark victory for advocates of direct licensing, a Spanish court has ruled against SGAE in favour of a venue which had negotiated to pay performance royalties directly to artists. The ruling – by Judge Pedro Macías, of the commercial court of Badajoz in Extremadura – centres on […]

Kobalt’s very own collecting society AMRA yesterday confirmed a deal with Ole, which is, we’ll have you’ll know – well, they’ll have you know really, but whatever – either way, we’re (possibly) talking about “the world’s fastest-growing independent rights management company” here. As previously reported , Kobalt acquired and then relaunched AMRA in 2015, in […]

Protecting the rights of copyright holders is fundamental for the development of culture. Discussions based on this principle are necessary. The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) has decided on a policy to charge copyright fees for performances of music pieces at piano and other music schools, starting in January next […]

Avec l’explosion de la vidéo en direct, les relations qu’entretiennent les médias historiques, notamment les groupes de télévision, avec les géants du web, entrent dans une nouvelle ère. De partenaires de diffusion, les GAFA vont vite devenir de redoutables acteurs dans l’attribution des droits de diffusion, notamment sportifs, estime Stéphane Gotajner, senior consultant media, publicité […]

Gouvernance, éthique et transparence. C’est sur ces trois points que les auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs membres de la Sacem ont adopté le 1er mars, à l’issue d’une assemblée générale extraordinaire, une réforme statutaire « d’une ampleur inédite ». Pour se mettre en conformité avec la nouvelle réglementation applicable aux organismes de gestion collective* entrée en […]

Gone. Face aux mauvais résultats financiers enregistrés sur l’année 2016, le groupe TF1 est dans l’obligation de trouver des solutions rapidement. Hier, le groupe TF1 dévoilait ses résultats pour l’année 2016 et on peut dire qu’il y a du pain sur la planche pour la Une. Du côté du groupe Bouygues, on a l’habitude de […]

La révision de la loi sur le droit d’auteur connaît une évolution positive. Après le constat d’échec du projet mis en consultation il y a un an, les conclusions de l’AGUR II* (le groupe de travail re-convoqué par la Conseillère fédérale Simonetta Sommaruga) viennent d’être rendues. Le DFJP soumettra au Conseil fédéral un nouveau projet de […]

HMD Global Oy, the Finnish manufacturer with exclusive rights to market phones under the storied Nokia brand, is planning to announce four such handsets at Mobile World Congress later this month, according to a person briefed on the company’s plans. Besides the already revealed Nokia 6 — launched in China but not yet elsewhere — […]

In the past, I have published on the value of information, big data, advanced analytics and the Abate Information Triangle and have recently been asked to give my humble opinion on the future of Big Data. I have been fortunate to have been on three panels recently at industry conferences which discussed this very question […]

TF1 Publicité vous propose de devenir un partenaire majeur du e-sport en France et de maximiser les points de contacts sur les 15-34 ans avec Gaming Inside Experience , la première aventure de gaming 24/24h avec un relai TV. Filmés dans une ‘gaming house’ de 300m 2 et coachés par les plus grands professionnels pendant […]

Le service juridique de la SACD partage l’analyse : la TVA ne peut s’appliquer sur la redevance copie privée qui n’est pas une prestation rendue à titre onéreux. Une conclusion tirée d’une récente décision de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne. Jusqu’à présent, le ministère des Finances a toujours considéré que la redevance pour […]

The following post is an excerpt from our IPTV Market Leader report, produced by Kagan Research, a group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. To learn more about this research, please request a call . Our annual IPTV Market Leader Report identifies which IPTV systems and software companies are leading in each of four IPTV market […]

10/02/2017 : Press release – 2016 sees EU cinema attendance hitting biggest high since 2004 On the occasion of the 67 th Berlin International Film Festival the European Audiovisual Observatory releases its first estimates for European cinema attendance in 2016. Building on a strong 2015, the Observatory estimates that total admissions in the European Union […]

Invité de l’émission Questions politiques, dimanche, l’économiste a estimé que l’Europe devait s’allier pour mieux imposer les géants du numérique. Gone. Comment mieux taxer les géants de l’Internet ? Cette question hante les débats sur la fiscalité depuis des années, à mesure que sont apparues les pratiques, légales, d’optimisation fiscales de nombreuses entreprises du numérique, […]

La Commission veut autoriser les chaînes à mettre plus de publicité en prime time. Le projet divise les parlementaires et les Etats. La France est contre. La télévision aura les yeux rivés sur Bruxelles ces prochains mois. Outre la délicate réforme du droit d’auteur, qui inquiète l’audiovisuel français, un autre dossier clé pour le secteur […]

Kobalt Music Recordings has hired Silvia Montello as Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Client Services. In her new role, Silvia will oversee both digital and physical supply chains for Kobalt Music Recordings and AWAL (Kobalt’s digital services platform), as well as the client management and client services teams. A 25 year veteran of the […]

Universal Music Group has officially re-launched the Polygram Entertainment brand to work on its fast-growing film and television projects. Polygram’s inaugural production will be The Story of Motown , the first documentary about the history and cultural impact of the iconic record label with the participation of Motown founder Berry Gordy. Polygram will develop and […]

You can probably rattle off the names of a few dozen countries around the world. But can you name each of those countries’ biggest brands? Probably not. And yet, many of those brands have more money and power than most countries. So perhaps schools should teach less geography, more global brands. This map is a […]

3 3 La mue du marché vidéo ne se traduit pas simplement par le passage du physique au dématérialisé : elle se caractérise par une très forte expansion des nouveaux usages combinée à l’essor des terminaux mobiles. La vidéo devient un axe de développement majeur des réseaux sociaux tandis que la télévision cherche son avenir […]

New research estimates that the global economic value of counterfeiting and piracy could reach $2.3 trillion by 2022, with job losses totalling in excess of 5 million. The research provides important data to policymakers. The challenge now is to ensure that they pay heed to it. The report, The Economic Impacts of Counterfeiting and Piracy […]

A new report released today indicates that the global economic value of counterfeiting and piracy could reach US$2.3 trillion by 2022. Titled, The Economic Impacts of Counterfeiting and Piracy, the report provides estimates on the wider social and economic impacts on displaced economic activity, investment, public fiscal losses and criminal enforcement, and concludes that these […]

The 2016 report found that counterfeiting and piracy continue to grow at an astounding rate despite increased efforts by the private sector, governments, international government organisations and NGOs. BASCAP and INTA hope that better information on how counterfeiting and piracy undermine intellectual property (IP), innovation, economic growth and employment will better enable policymakers to make […]

This whole “games as a service” thing is really working out for Activision Blizzard. The publisher had a record fourth quarter and a huge year for 2016 . A large part of that success is thanks to money made from in-game purchases, such as card packs in Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone (which leads a potential $1.4 […]

Jeff Bewkes HBO has passed more than two million domestic subscribers for its over-the-top service HBO Now, parent company Time Warner revealed. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes announced the figure during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call, saying he was pleased with HBO’s US over-the-top growth. “HBO is just as focused on reaching consumers abroad, […]

While we’ll have to wait for the IFPI’s official numbers later this year, there’s a consensus that the music industry ended 2016 with around 100 million people around the world paying for music subscriptions. Now Midia Research , which has just upgraded that estimate to 106.3 million, has predicted that the industry could add 44.3 […]

La plate-forme vidéo, dont l’audience a chuté de 43 % en dix-huit mois, prépare un virage éditorial. AFP/LIONEL BONAVENTURE Vivendi l’a promis. Dailymotion, la plate-forme vidéo dont le rachat par le groupe Bolloré a été bouclé le 30 juin 2015, prendra un nouveau départ en avril. Au menu, le lancement d’un nouveau site et d’une […]

En 2016, le volume de publicité diffusée sur les chaînes de télévision est en baisse de 2,6 % par rapport à 2015 (-3,3 % sur les chaînes nationales historiques, -1,8 % sur les chaînes TNT/TNT HD et -2,7 % sur les chaînes thématiques) et les investissements publicitaires bruts augmentent de 3,9 % (+2,3 % sur […]

Yesterday YouTube announced that it was opening up live streaming to its creator community who have a following of 1,000 or more on the YouTube platform. The new service called “Super Chat” allows users of the service to “get a creator’s attention” by buying a variety of emoji and chat messages which are then pinned to the […]

What do musicians have to do to sell records these days? Die? Ideally, yes. The star who sold more albums than anyone else in 2016 left this mortal plane that April — his purpleness, Prince. The Minneapolis-born star was the sole musician who managed to sell more than 1 million albums in both digital and […]

De plus en plus de consommateurs de musique en streaming s’abonnent à des services payants comme Deezer ou Spotify. Le nombre d’abonnés à des services de streaming payants dans le monde a même tendance à croître plus vite que leur nombre global d’utilisateurs, comme le démontrent les données de Spotify sur la période de septembre […]

Torrent Freak a publié le TOP 10 des séries les plus téléchargées illégalement en 2015 démontrant une fois de plus l’attrait de la série HBO, Game of Thrones dont le final 2015 a été téléchargé 14,4 millions de fois. Cependant, l’élément le plus frappant de ce TOP 10 est qu’il n’intègre aucune série Netflix Original (ni […]

I’ve said before that next generation TV homes are building their own streaming bundles. The average US Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) home takes 2.5 SVOD services. But what sort of bundles are beginning to emerge? And how do different homes mesh services to get to the content they want? hulu_netflix_amazon_hbo.jpg These charts look at […]

+1 1 Tweet 3 Vote 1 Share 3 Share 3 Reddit Shares 10 The European Parliament is finalising legislation which will allow EU residents to access their paid subscriptions for online media – such as video streaming, games and music – whilst visiting other EU countries. It’s a contention that came to a head last […]

Walt Disney Co. headquarters in Burbank. (Reed Saxon / AP) Riding a high on Wall Street, Walt Disney Co. will report fiscal first-quarter earnings Tuesday. Over the last three months, shares of Disney have soared nearly 19%, in part on the strength of its latest “Star Wars” blockbuster: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” The […]

Et un concurrent de plus pour Netflix ! SFR propose depuis fin janvier son service “Play”, permettant de regarder des séries et films, sans engagement et sans obligation d’avoir une box ou un forfait mobile de l’opérateur contrôlé par Patrick Drahi. A 9,99 euros par mois, le tarif est relativement similaire à celui l’ogre américain […]

Know the latest advertising lingo to maximize your sales Have you heard the term “amplify” used in conjunction with social media? With the death of organic reach on Facebook, this term has become the “go-to” euphemism for making an advertising buy to ensure a message is delivered to a significant audience size. The idea is […]

Cette tribune a été écrite par Daniel Findikian ( @findikian ), expert dans la transformation digitale de l’industrie musicale, directeur de l’école EMIC Paris et ancien Directeur Digital de EMI Music. Dans un marché de la musique en pleine renaissance, où le streaming marque une croissance de l’ordre de +30 à +50% dans l’ensemble des […]

“Brut”, le média 100% réseaux sociaux fondé en septembre par le producteur Renaud Le Van Kim, a conclu un accord avec France Télévisions qui deviendra sa régie publicitaire exclusive, a indiqué lundi son fondateur à l’AFP, confirmant des informations du Figaro. La régie de France Télévisions aidera ainsi “Brut” à mieux se monétiser sur les […]

Facebook Plans Netflix-Style Programming. And The Music Licenses? Facebook is pursuing an aggressive long form video strategy. But where are the licenses? There’s no arguing that Facebook is on top of the social media empire. As of the third quarter of 2016, Facebook had roughly 1.79 billion users. During the same time period, Twitter only […]

Accueil Actualités Performances digitales record à + 29,3% en 2016 pour FranceTV Publicité Avec plus de 18 millions de visiteurs uniques 3 écrans cible 15+(1) par mois et un total de 4.2 milliards de vidéos vues en 2016 (350 millions par mois en moyenne) sur l’ensemble de ses plateformes digitales en croissance de +77%(2) vs […]

• Total revenue grew 8.0% or was up 10.6% in constant currency • Digital revenue grew 27.6% or was up 30.2% in constant currency • Net income was $24 million versus $28 million in the prior-year quarter • OIBDA was $157 million versus $137 million in the prior-year quarter Warner Music Group Corp. today announced […]

Pricing has long been an issue for streaming music subscriptions, with the $/€/£ 9.99 price point above what most people spend on music each month. Streaming services have navigated around the issue with a combination of tactics such as telco bundles and aggressive price discounts (e.g. $1 for 3 months). However, these tactics place long […]

The House Of Lords yesterday debated the need for more transparency for artists and songwriters over how their recordings and songs are being exploited in the digital domain, as Liberal Democrat lord Tim Clement-Jones put forward his previously reported amendment to the Digital Economy Bill. A representative of the government concurred that “the principle of […]

3 3 Dans son étude publiée le 13 décembre, le cabinet d’études eMarketer estime que 211,6 millions d’internautes habitant en Europe de l’Ouest auront regardé des vidéos en ligne au moins une fois par mois en 2016 ; soit 66,9% de l’ensemble des internautes. Compte tenu de l’augmentation du nombre de services de SVOD, comme […]

Another legal challenge to a data transfer authorization mechanism relied upon by Facebook and thousands of other companies to legally move user data from the European Union to the U.S. for processing has kicked off in the Irish High Court today. The hearing is expected to last three weeks, and is taking place in Ireland […]

Last May, Hulu announced plans to start streaming live TV, much like Dish’s Sling TV and Sony’s PlayStation Vue services — but the company hasn’t offered up many details on how this would all tie into the existing Hulu on-demand service. That’s changing today, as Hulu is now showing off an entirely redesigned user experience […]

Les TMT Predictions explorent les principales tendances qui devraient s’imposer cette année. 2017 ouvre de nombreuses perspectives : machine learning, biométrie, cybersécurité… Quelles incidences auront ces innovations ? Duncan Stewart décrypte cinq de ces tendances ! Duncan Stewart est directeur de la recherche dans le secteur des Technologies, médias et télécommunications (TMT) pour Deloitte Canada. […]

Ticketmaster in the US has announced that it is shifting a number of its existing services into a new unified music division, bringing in David Marcus to run it all. He’ll oversee the OnTour artist services operation, the Venues & Promoters ticketing platform, and smaller venue ticketing service TicketWeb. Marcus was most recently Chief Commercial […]

Publié le 31 janvier 2017 / 0 commentaire Par Gautier Roos, France Télévisions, Direction de la Prospective C’est devenu une évidence, partagée bien au-delà du cercle des spécialistes du numérique, qu’il est temps de discuter : les algorithmes nous gouvernent . Objet de débats publics récurrents (pensons au phénomène des bulles de filtres, réapparu au […]

Fréquentation totale (millions d’entrées) 2017 2016 évolution 2017/2016 (%) Janvier 16,64 16,72 -0,4 année glissante (de février n-1 à janvier n) 212,57 205,28 +3,6 Source : CNC Selon les dernières estimations de la direction des études, des statistiques et de la prospective, la fréquentation cinématographique atteint 16,64 millions d’entrées au mois de janvier 2017, soit […]

Une rencontre sur le sujet à destination des auteurs était organisée le 30 janvier à la SACD pour présenter les principaux dispositifs de soutien du CNC en présence de ses responsables Cinéma. A revoir en intégralité en vidéo. Le CNC a pu parfois manquer de pédagogie quant aux critères d’éligibilité de certaines de ses aides, […]

La Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, société de gestion collective, développe ses services à destination des auteurs. Nouvel arrivé, un outil pour aider ces derniers à s’assurer du bon rendu des comptes dans le secteur de l’audiovisuel, pour lequel 2017 devrait constituer une phase de moralisation. (Kārlis Dambrāns, CC BY 2.0) « En réalité, […]

Décidément Facebook n’a pas fini de bousculer le marché des médias. Facebook ne veut pas passer à côté de la manne publicitaire de la télévision. Le Wall Street Journal a révélé il y a quelques jours que les équipes de Mark Zuckerberg travaillaient sur une application TV destinée aux box, y compris l’Apple TV. Destinée […]

PRSMusic industry experts have called on songwriters, composers and producers to grasp the importance of managing their music rights and works’ data to ensure they get paid. Talking at the recent PRS Explores: Big Data event, experts from Soundcloud, PRS for Music and Auddly called on songwriters to grasp the importance of recording their songwriting […]

Eat your heart out, Simon Cowell. Scott Borchetta and his team at Big Machine Label Group have demonstrated consistent A&R success since setting up in 2005 – signing artists including Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and a little known country singer called Taylor Swift. Now Nashville-born BMLG is turning to TV to help uncover its next […]

International collections of neighbouring rights money at UK recorded music licensing body PPL jumped 34% last year to £49.1m ($61m). The haul was PPL’s largest ever annual international collection, and came after four relatively flat years between 2012 and 2015 (inclusive). Revenue was collected from 33 countries in 2016, with major growth in contributions across […]

BMG has launched a full-service sound agency – consolidating its interests in one-stop, pre-cleared and custom production music under the BMG Production Music banner. The new operation includes offices in LA, Nashville, London, Hilversum and Berlin, and has a catalogue of around 400,000 tracks spanning all genres. The ‘new’ BMG’s involvement in production and custom […]

In a recent editorial in The American Spectator , automotive columnist Eric Peters accused BMI and ASCAP of a litany of wrongdoings in an intended explainer of how Performance Rights Organizations allegedly operate. Under normal circumstances, an article this thinly researched wouldn’t merit a response, but given that BMI was singled out by name and […]

TOKYO — As internet access and incomes grow across Asia, so too has the size of the music market in the region — along with the need for copyright protection. Shunichi Tokura Last November saw the launch of the Asia-Pacific Music Creators Alliance (APMA), the first regionwide body established to protect creative rights in Asia’s […]

Spotify pense sérieusement à reporter d’un an son d’introduction en Bourse, et cela pourrait lui coûter très cher. Après avoir finalement abandonné son projet de rachat du concurrent Soundcloud fin 2016, le Suédois viserait plutôt une IPO pour le printemps 2018, au lieu de 2017, comme prévu initialement, a suggéré le service de streaming à […]

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Collecting societies have often made easy targets in arguments about the music industry’s attitude towards technological change. Yet in 2017, the dinosaur stereotypes are crumbling – for some collective management organisations (CMOs) at least. From licensing hubs like ICE and Armonia, to SOCAN buying tech firms MediaNet and Audiam, to PRS for Music hosting a […]

The news that Facebook is planning to launch its own TV app, aimed at actual TV sets via Apple TV, Roku et al., raises more questions than it answers. Some of the big ones for us include: Where are they getting their programming from? This is a big one. Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have snapped […]

CreativeFuture, the grass-roots coalition which unites those who value American creativity and innovation in the fight against content theft, has welcomed a proposal from the House Judiciary Committee, led by Congressman Goodlatte and Congressman Conyers, that “identifies important reforms to help ensure the Copyright Office keeps pace in the digital age”. “On behalf of creatives […]

Engages CML Consultancy Services Led by Miew Lan Chan NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – February 06, 2017) – ASCAP, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers , the world leader in performing rights and advocacy for music creators, today announced that it has engaged CML Consultancy Services PLT to work with ASCAP on Asia-Pacific strategy […]

Proposed changes to Irish copyright law – how the Arco lamp case shone a light on the protection of industrially produced artistic works Under Irish law, copyright protection for artistic works lasts for 70 years after the death of the author. There are two exceptions to this: (i) copyright protection in a design registered under […]

Le titre du bilan 2016 réalisé par Médiamétrie est « l’audience augmentée », en référence à l’évolution des outils de mesure des audiences, en particulier du fait de l’intégration du replay dans l’audience des chaînes. Mais en fait, 2016 c’est plutôt l’année de l’audience fragmentée : des chaînes historiques en perte de vitesse, des chaînes […]

 Sprint buys 33 percent of Tidal, pair teaming to combat Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora Sprint has announced that it has forged a deal for 33 percent ownership of music streaming service Tidal, and as part of the deal, Sprint customers will receive “exclusive artist content” not available anywhere else. Lire la suite de l\’article applenws.com

Netflix is banking hard on people’s love of binge-watching . It has worked for the subscription streaming service, and because it is working Netflix revealed in a letter to shareholders that it’s a trend the company sees catching on, and soon. In fact, Netflix thinks that HBO may be in the market for a binge-watching […]

Tim Cook a confirmé l’intérêt du groupe à la pomme pour la production de contenus. Apple pourrait accélérer dans la production de contenus – AFP Tim Cook a confirmé l’intérêt du groupe à la pomme pour la production de contenus. Lire la suite de l\’article live.lesechos.fr

What’s that coming over the hill? Facebook looks set to make a major splash in music in the coming months… if a revealing new job ad is anything to go by. The social media giant, which boasts more than 1.7bn monthly active users, is currently recruiting for a Director Of Global Music Licensing . The […]

The MBW Review gives our take on some of the music biz’s biggest recent goings-on. This time, we look at Apple’s ridiculous mountain of money, while ponder what it might splash it on. The MBW Review is supported by FUGA . Apple has enough spare money to buy the entire music business. Just like that. […]

Stratégie internationale, évolution des relations avec les majors, concurrence, monétisation, nouveaux services…Le CEO de Deezer livre sa vision de l’évolution du marché de la musique en ligne. JDN. En 2015, Deezer dénombrait 6,3 millions de clients dans 180 pays. Où en êtes-vous aujourd’hui ? Hans-Holger Albrecht est le CEO de Deezer depuis février 2015? Hans-Holger […]

One of the key part of AMRA’s pitch to companies like ole is its claim to be able to account 8-12 months faster by collecting directly from global services like Apple Music and Spotify. Kobalt-owned global digital collecting society AMRA has announced its latest deal: with independent music rights management company ole. The partnership will […]

Facebook had another strong quarter in Q4 2016 , earning $8.81 billion in revenue and $1.41 EPS. It pulled that from 1.86 billion monthly users, up 3.91 percent this quarter, or 70 million users, from 1.79 billion, but at a slower pace than its 4.67 percent growth last quarter. Mobile now makes up 84 percent […]

Les producteurs de musique demandent « une revalorisation » de leur pourcentage d’intéressement, tandis que la société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques s’attelle à mieux faire respecter les droits des scénaristes. JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP En pleine période électorale, les société s de perception et de répartition des droits d’auteur, des éléments clés du dispositif […]

Spain’s recording industry registered moderate growth for the third year in a row in 2016 as the digital business surpasses the physical market for the first time. The market earned €163.7 million from the sale of music last year – up 1.67%, or just €3.5m, on 2015 . In 2014, Spain’s recorded music market was […]