Deezer is now a $1.4bn company – with a big opportunity in Mexico

The Spotify rival, majority owned by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, has just struck a major deal which it believes will “shake up audio streaming in Mexico” – and could help it establish its goal to become the No.2 streaming company in multiple reg…

Connecting African listeners to the global music scene: Inside China’s Startups

Boomplay was introduced in 2015, as a pre-installed music player on Tecno, a smartphone brand owned by Chinese company Transsion, also recognized as the “Cellphone King of Africa,” when the phone maker looked beyond hardware and beefed up its internet …

Le livestream, un espoir fragile pour l’industrie de la musique

Le format livestream devient tendance alors que les salles de concerts voient s’éloigner à 2021 la possibilité d’ouvrir à nouveau leurs portes. Mais le modèle encore balbutiant est bien loin de compenser les pertes du secteur, au présent, comme à l’ave…