Ah, the famous ‘pivot to video’ years, when all manner of news organisations and digital publishers rushed to refocus on video because Facebook’s algorithm was prioritising it.

We regret to inform you that the White House is at it again. ‘It’ being using popular songs by non-MAGA artists in social-media posts promoting its military activities.

This may sound like a story we’ve written before, not that long ago. But you’re probably thinking about UK watchdog Ofcom launching an investigation into TikTok over child safety. That happened ...

Last month, independent-music streaming service Nina Protocol announced that it was shutting down. Now SoundCloud is buying ...

Meet Music Festival Tycoon, a Roblox game from Live Nation and Livewire that’s been announced this week, but went live quietly earlier.

YouTube and Google’s parent company Alphabet has published its financial results for the second quarter of 2026, including the latest figures for YouTube’s advertising business.

Music-analytics firm Chartmetric and Splice have collaborated on a report focusing on ‘hybrid genres’ – combinations of ...

Get set for some discombobulating moments on Instagram in the coming weeks, if you see posts from a few years ago soundtracked by music from 2026.

To some people, Suno is an AI-music generator that could democratise the art of music-making so that billions of people can ...

Canadian artist BBNO$ is the latest musician heading to Roblox for a virtual concert – and it seems plenty of players are interested in attending the event.

Here’s another startup for the list of AI tools designed for music-industry workflows, rather than to generate music. SynaptIQ is a UK-based startup whose focus is on ‘media rights intelligence’.

Spotify really is making a big push with music videos in 2026. It’s allowing artists to upload their full-length videos directly to its service, and windowing some videos in ‘early access’ for ...