“We will not promote shows in Russia, and we will not do business with Russia.”
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Category archives: Analysis
TikTok ups max video length to 10 minutes. Should YouTube be worried?
TikTok reportedly generated $4 billion in ad revenues in 2021, and wants to triple that in 2022
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Snoop Dogg is building a crypto empire, one NFT at a time
MBW chronicles Calvin Broadus Jr’s impressive foray into the NFT space, and the rewards he’s reaping
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HYBE, home of BTS, surpassed $1bn in revenues in 2021 – the year it acquired Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings
HYBE spent $1 billion on Braun’s company in April 2021, and has seen a 58% jump in annual revenues
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The major music companies are in a race to hire the best Web3 talent – before media’s biggest companies beat them to it
Interesting developments at Universal, Sony, and Warner in recent weeks hint at the impact Web3 will have on music in the months ahead
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Kanye West just sold 10,000 Stem Players in 3 days… as he claims he rejected a $100m deal from Apple
One of the most interesting release experiments in modern music is about to take place via Ye’s Donda 2
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From SoundCloud’s $218m+ revenues to Snoop Dogg’s $44m+ worth of NFTs: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The biggest stories of the week – and why they matter
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If you wanted to know why Sony Music bought AWAL… this is why
The signing of girl in red to Columbia could be a key case study in the Sony-AWAL story
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YouTube is making close to $100m from advertising revenues every day
YouTube generated over $28 billion across the course of 2021
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SoundCloud’s annual revenues topped $218m in 2020 – and it’s been making bold moves ever since
MBW gets our hands on SoundCloud’s results from 2020, and they reveal a 31% annual rise in revenues
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