Americans spend 60% of entertainment time on ad-filled platforms, new study finds

Consumers in the US spend nearly 60% of their leisure time on platforms with advertisements, with 50% of Americans already satisfied with the amount of ads they are exposed to. That’s according to a new study by US market monitor Luminate (former…

‘I thought: I’ve had enough of this, I’m going to leave the industry.’

He didn’t, and thank goodness – otherwise he wouldn’t have gone on to manage Wolf Alice, alt-J, or a host of other great acts. MBW meets Stephen Taverner…
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What do the world’s biggest music companies really think about the economics of streaming?

A summary of what a number of leading global music companies argued to Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority
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Tencent Music rakes in $315m from music streaming subs in Q2, adds 2.5m paying users

Tencent Music Entertainment, which operates China’s biggest music streaming platforms, ended the second quarter of 2022 with 82.7 million paying music users. Online music streaming subscribers paid RMB 2.11 billion (USD $315 million) for TME’s music st…