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PRS for Music saw record figures in 2022. Revenue growth was at 22.9% year-on-year and the figure sat at £964 million. Of that amount, £836 million came from royalties to be paid out. The British society PRS for Music collects…
WordPress have recently cut their Twitter social sharing option due to the huge increase in the API subscription plan. No longer will you be able to share articles directly to the social platform. WordPress has become the latest of huge…
All YouTube Premium subscribers will have higher-quality videos than any other user. This comes as the company are rolling out new features for those with a Premium subscription. One being, enhanced 1080p videos. YouTube Premium members will be able to…
Mastercard are launching a musician accelerator program. However, not all musicians will be able to access it. It will only be accessible to NFT members. Mastercard have announced their new artist program, but there’s a catch. It will only be…
Spotify have been introducing new features and redesigns a lot lately. Another one they’ve just brought to the table will see user profile cards sharing their personalised recommendations. Spotify are continuing to update their platform. They seem to be doing…
A brand-new AI tool, Radio GPT has launched, and is said to be able to host entire radio shows, including mimicking a presenter. Could this be the end of radio hosts? A new platform, Radio GPT has launched. It can…
Spotify produced a Creator Equity Fund in the hopes of promoting diversity across the streaming platform. However, they haven’t spent even half of it. They’ve used just under 10% of the fund within the first year. The popular podcast the…
Starting on the 5th June and continuing through until the 9th June, Apple’s developer conference will take place. Despite the pandemic almost being history Apple are still planning to run their conference online. Apple have announced the date for WWDC…
Many streaming platforms and services are following the same idea, which is to copy TikTok’s format. It has worked for the video platform, they’ve seen growth after growth. Now, it seems music streaming platforms are trying to jump on board.…
In 2021 Apple bought Primephonic and shortly after closed it down. Since then, they’ve been promising a standalone classical music app. It seems they’ve finally pulled through with their promise. Apple have promised for a while that they’d deliver a…
