The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are technologically advanced EU members – but getting people to pay for music remains hard.
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Music diversity initiative Keychange to launch ‘Manifesto 2.0’
Keychange was founded in 2015 as an initiative to tackle the gender imbalance within the music industry. Now it’s taking stock.
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Reports: Spotify to raise the price of individual subscriptions in US
In the US, the price of an individual subscription will increase, Billboard reports, from $9.99 to $10.99. This is the first price rise for an individual premium account in the US, having stayed at the $9.99 point since Spotify launched there in 2011.
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Snapchat expands Sounds library with new licensing deals
Snapchat has announced a slew of new music licensing deals, which will add more music to the Snapchat Sounds library
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Keychange adds 74 people to its talent development programme
Gender-equity organisation Keychange is starting 2023 with the addition of 74 people to its ‘Talent Development Programme’.
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Spotify Premium is now an employee perk for Accenture staff
Many people use music streaming services while at work, but now Spotify is looking to formalise this as a business line.
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Midemlab startups contest announces its 2020 winners
Solfeg·io, Super Hi-Fi, Audoo and Uptune have been named as the winners of this year’s Midemlab startups contest, held as part of the Midem music industry conference.
Like the conference, Midemlab was an entirely-online affair, with the pitches of all 20 finalists broadcast this afternoon, followed by the announcement of the winners.
Music Ally is a partner for Midemlab – we help to choose the finalists – so naturally we were watching the pitches and taking notes.
They’re below: first for the four winners, and then for the other finalists. It’s a good snapshot (alongside our recent coverage of the Techstars Music demo day) of 2020’s best music startups.
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Never mind the Baltics, YouTube. Oh, actually, do…
YouTube has revealed its latest statistic: “More than 80 percent of YouTube’s billions of views each day come from fans in countries outside the US,” explained the company yesterday, as a prelude to revealing an expansion of its localised websites.
“With the addition of the Adriatics, Baltics, Bulgaria, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Belarus, YouTube now has local versions in 85 countries.”
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Beatport bags digital publishing licence for Nordic/Baltic region
Digital dance music store Beatport has announced a digital publishing licensing deal covering the entire Nordic and Baltic region, struck through the joint Nordic/Baltic online licence fronted by Nordisk Copyright Bureau.
