It’s SXSW London this week, with all manner of talks and events focusing on music and tech in the UK’s capital. But a report released as it kicks off has some warnings about funding for the UK’s music ...

A two-day annual international music business conference, bringing together decision makers. This is the only high-level industry event to take place in London on an annual basis. Focusing on the most ...

LyricFind sued rival Musixmatch in 2025, accusing them of anti-competitive behaviour, zeroing in on a licensing deal with Warner Chappell.

LabelWorx has been building its distribution and label-services business for 15 years, focusing on clients in the electronic-music world. Now it wants to provide some of them with funding too. The ...

There comes a time for most artists when some aspect of their identity – whether it be creative, personal, or professional – feels like it has run its course. And when that happens, there’s no ...

While content creation can be time consuming, it remains to be a key element in any sort of artist campaign in 2026. To this end, social media content batching – a strategy to help with creating ...

As one of the key music providers for online-video creators, Epidemic Sound has a big community of customers to draw on when studying how they feel about music and new technologies. Its new ‘Future of ...

YouTube has been labelling AI-generated videos since 2024… IF the creators disclosed their use of AI tools when uploading it. Now the company has made some changes to its labelling system. First, the ...

Sync continues to be an important source of income for rightsholders and musicians alike, and in recent years there has been a succession of startups and new agencies bringing new ideas to the sync ...

In 2021, my co-founders and I began developing the music-vision foundation model that would become Freebeat. The question that drove us, as engineers and lifelong music lovers, was simple: why does ...

Chart’ for K-Pop music using data from Tencent Music in China, Line in Japan and Melon in South Korea. That’s a lot of collective streams, but it turns out they won’t be the only metric filtering into ...