Tim Ingham – Page 10 – The Talking Fern

Stat Of The Week: TikTok and Spotify now neck-and-neck for users in Europe – but TikTok’s bigger in the US

TikTok now has over 100m MAUs apiece in Europe and the United States
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Over a million people are watching UFC on US TV. Now, it’s got its own music streaming app.

“We feel UFC Ultimate Sound is the first step in a new direction for both the music industry and professional sports.”
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EMPIRE vows to ‘revolutionize’ music publishing via new division led by Al ‘Butter’ McLean and Vinny Kumar

“Our development team has worked tirelessly to build a proprietary system to bring transparency and accountability to the publishing industry,” says Ghazi Shami
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Hipgnosis becomes a fully-fledged publisher, buying Big Deal Music to form Hipgnosis Songs Group

Buyout includes admin platform Words and Music, which will be used to leverage better rates on streaming platforms
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Ted Cockle and Amy Thomson join Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis Songs Fund

Cockle named President of ‘Song Management’ company; Thomson takes role as Chief Catalogue Officer
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Warner hit by three month-long customer payment card hack on e-commerce sites

“We want to emphasize at the outset that keeping personal information safe and secure is very important to us, and we deeply regret that this incident has occurred.”
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