EXCLUSIVE: Germany has long been a powerhouse in football (aka soccer), winning four World Cups between 1954 and 2014. Now the country is developing a taste for American football. Germany’s got its own American football […]
Jean-Michel Jarre. Photo Credit: Yunling Fang Days after striking a catalog deal with Simple Minds, BMG has officially acquired the “entire music publishing back catalogue” of veteran electronic music creator Jean-Michel Jarre. Berlin-headquartered BMG and […]
Photo Credit: Reet Talreja Spotify has officially announced the acquisition of music trivia game Heardle amid a broader effort to expand its offerings and grow its revenue. The Stockholm-based company, which has dropped billions on […]
Photo Credit: Than Diep Live Nation announces its acquisition of TERO Concerts and Entertainment division, expanding its growth in Thailand. This acquisition builds further upon joint ventures between the two that launched in 2015. Live […]
Photo Credit: Anghami Anghami is the leading music and entertainment streaming platform in the MENA region. The company recently announced the acquisition of live events company Spotlight Events. Spotlight is an event and concert company […]
New York City’s most popular EDM venue has taken over its premier electronic festival. Last week, Billboard reported that the investment group behind Brooklyn hotspot Avant Gardner is purchasing New York promoter Made Event for $15 […]
Photo Credit: Ciaran O’Brien South Korean music asset management company, Beyond Music, has acquired Interpark Music assets. Beyond Music says this latest acquisition firmly establishes itself as “Asia’s largest single music IP management company.” The […]
Songtradr CEO Paul Wiltshire. Photo Credit: Songtradr Music licensing and distribution platform Songtradr has officially acquired Musicube, which bills itself as a provider of “B2B AI music metadata services like auto-tagging, metadata enrichment and semantic […]
Photo Credit: BeatPortal Beatport has acquired LabelRadar, bringing its streamlined music demo submission platform to its Music Services division. LabelRadar helps artists by introducing their demos to labels and notifies them immediately when its heard. […]
Photo Credit: Shutterstock Shutterstock has acquired Pond5, the world’s largest video marketplace, for $210 million. The acquisition cements the company’s position as the industry leader for commercial and editorial video content. Shutterstock is the world’s […]
Photo Credit: Eric Nopanen Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) has acquired two FM radio stations in Orlando and Tampa Bay for $12.5 million. The acquisition makes SBS the largest Hispanic radio platform in Florida. SBS is already […]
The Musiio team. Photo Credit: Musiio SoundCloud has officially acquired AI-powered music-analysis platform Musiio, which higher-ups say “will amplify SoundCloud’s existing music intelligence capabilities.” Berlin-headquartered SoundCloud today emailed DMN a release announcing its buyout of […]
Photo Credit: Mayht Sonos has announced it is acquiring Mayht, a Netherlands-based company that showed off new audio transducer tech at CES this year. Mayht’s Heartmotion technology replaces conventional drivers to create speakers that are […]
Photo Credit: Talenthouse Talenthouse has acquired Creative Commission, a leading platform for hiring freelance creatives in the music industry. Creative Commission was founded in 2014 and has worked with leading artists like Arctic Monkeys, Doja […]
Photo Credit: The Depot Primary Wave Music has struck a music publishing deal with Grammy-nominated songwriter, Even Stevens. The deal will see the independent publishing giant acquire a stake in the songwriter’s music publishing catalog. […]
Casey Wasserman. Photo Credit: Rainer Hosch Wasserman Music has officially acquired the live music representation business of Paradigm UK, higher-ups have announced. The buyout of Paradigm UK’s music touring operations arrives a little over one […]
Jennifer Lopez’s latest flick is coming to a streaming service near you, one way or another. Amazon Prime Video has acquired the U.S. rights to her romantic action comedy with Josh Duhamel, Shotgun Wedding, from […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Jono McLeod-directed documentary My Old School, which made its world premiere at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival, has landed at Magnolia Pictures. The specialty cinema label has taken North American rights to […]
Shared from www.digitalmusicnews.com. The fiercely independent Bandcamp is no longer. Epic Games — owner of the formidable Fortnite and the Unreal gaming engine — consummated its acquisition of the platform this morning (March 2nd). Gaming […]
Shared from www.digitalmusicnews.com Whodini performing live. Larry Smith produced several of the group’s albums, including 1984’s ‘Escape.’ Photo Credit: Brett Hammond About two weeks after revealing that it had “$3 billion worth of deals in […]