Photo Credit: Kobalt Music Kobalt Music achieved a 22 percent year-over-year (YoY) revenue increase during the 12 months ending on June 30th, 2022, generating north of $600 million, according to a new earnings analysis. New […]
Decentraland’s Vegas City area, where Lickd is offering users access to music from Empire and Kobalt. Photo Credit: Lickd UGC music licensing platform Lickd has announced a deal to bring the catalogs of Kobalt and […]
Photo Credit: Kobalt Music A federal judge has officially denied Spotify’s early motion for summary judgement against Kobalt as part of a long-running legal battle centering on allegedly unpaid royalties for billions of Eminem streams. […]
Photo Credit: PE Insights Kobalt has sold a controlling interest in its business to media-focused investment firm Francisco Partners. Willard Ahdritz will continue as Kobalt’s Chairman, and the company will continue to be led by […]
Photo Credit: Kobalt Music After cashing out of AWAL (and Kobalt Neighboring Rights) in a $430 million deal with Sony Music Entertainment, Kobalt Music is reportedly in “advanced talks” to sell the remainder of its […]
Photo Credit: Kobalt Kobalt says it plans to release a lyric NFT collection called An Electro Revival. Kobalt says its the first global music publisher to release a set of fully licensed direct-to-fan NFTs. The […]
Photo Credit: Kobalt Music Kobalt Music is removing its 700,000-song catalog from Instagram and Facebook due to license expiry. The company says its music licensing agreement with Meta expired and the two parties have failed […]