Pandora [P] Stock Up Despite Mixed Earnings, User Report
Pandora stock rose as much as 7% in after hours trading Wednesday, after the streamer beat Wall Street expectations in a key metric. Overall revenue grew $395 million, beating analyst predictions. Continue reading
Pandora Listener Hours Fall, Subscriptions Up Just 290K
Pandora listener hours continued their slow decline to 5.03 billion for the fourth quarter of 2017, compared to 5.15 billion hours last quarter and 5.38 billion for the same quarter. Continue reading
Facebook Adds Licenses For 31M Tracks, 290K Rightholders
Facebook has taken another major step forward in its push to legally licence and compensate the creators of music used on its platforms, announcing a deal with ICE, the European licensing. Continue reading
Amazon Hires Wx-WBR Prez Dan McCarroll, Signals Move Into Original Music Programming
Dan McCarroll, the former President and head of A&R at Warner Bros. Records, has been named Amazon Music's global head of originals and artist relations. He will work as a. Continue reading
Fast Company’s Surprising 10 Most Innovative Music Companies 2018
Fast Company has named its annual Most Innovative Companies list for 2018. Unsurprisingly, Spotify took the #1 spot in the Music category and #9 for all companies "for pointing fans toward. Continue reading
Video Game Music: An Art And Business In Its Own Right
While musicians have been cozy with the video game industry for some time as another supplementary source of revenue, but some indicators suggest that game music could be growing into. Continue reading
Facebook Licensing Deadline Nears For Indie Musicians
The deadline for unaffiliated independent musicians and rightsholders to get paid for use of their music on Facebook by registering with the Harry Fox Agency's Rumblefish division is just 3 weeks. Continue reading
