Keywords have always been the way for users to find content on YouTube – but that’s about to change. According to Digital Trends, YouTube has started rolling out a new […]
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Report: YouTube has overtaken Spotify as Brits’ primary podcasts platform
It’s not so long since Spotify overtaking Apple was the big story in podcasting. However, Spotify is now facing its own disrupter: YouTube.
How to use the new Threads Live Chat features
This April Threads launched Live Chats, which according to Meta “lets you participate in public group chats during the biggest cultural events. It’s a new way to build community with […]
Reach new audiences with photos on YouTube Shorts
If posting to YouTube Shorts as part of your artist’s marketing strategy, you know that traditionally, it doesn’t have the same photo posting feature as Instagram and TikTok do, with […]
YouTube Shorts image posts can now include 15 seconds of music
One of the more unexpected social-media trends of recent years has been short-video platforms reversing back into photos. TikTok has photo posts, and YouTube Shorts has too. Now music is […]
Justin Bieber continues post-Coachella surge with live album
Immediately after Justin Bieber’s first set at Coachella this year, we saw some mutterings online of the ‘he was playing his old YouTube videos and singing along, that’s that about?’ […]
MMF and YouTube managers accelerator evolves into ‘Hyperdrive’
UK managers body the MMF has a long-term relationship with YouTube for its management accelerator. Now the program is evolving and rebranding as ‘Hyperdrive’. The idea is similar: a four-month […]
Short form videos on YouTube Shorts now take even less time to watch
If you thought we had reached the theoretical zero-point of how short a short-form piece of video content can reasonably get – or wondered how they can possibly get any shorter, […]
(Another) AI Roundup: indie artists react to YouTube AI claims; Facebook; ErosMusic Worlds; and Modulate
We’re being flooded with AI news this week, so for the sake of our sanity, we’ve once again rounded it all up for you to digest in one crispy AI nugget: […]
Report highlights big-tech platforms’ role in spreading Indian ‘hate music’
US-based non-profit The Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) has published a report titled ‘Profiting from Hate Music: The Role of YouTube, Meta, Spotify and Apple Music in […]
Watch out, YouTube: Spotify is launching direct full-length video uploads for artists
Spotify is rolling out the ability for artists to upload full-length videos to its service – enhancing its competition with YouTube.
Music business ended 2025 with 921.6m paid streaming subscribers
By the end of this year, it’s quite possible that there will be more than one billion music subscribers globally.



