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YouTube Music launches free service for Google Home speakers

YouTube Music has launched its free, ad-supported service via Google Home speakers. The streaming service launched last summer in premium and free versions. YouTube has now extended the free service to Google Home speakers, as well as other Google Assistant-powered speakers. The move signifies an obvious music tech synergy for ...

UMG partners with podcast publisher Wondery

'London is open to groundbreaking technology': Spotify opens R&D hub in capital

'It was a long road': IMPALA welcomes green light for Copyright Directive

'It's going to be a blast': Laura Whitmore joins Gordon Smart to host This Feeling TV

'Best-in-class' royalty platform launches for digital age

A new music accounting platform promising "enterprise-level royalty processing for the digital age" has launched. Founded by digital and royalties specialists Richard Leach, Tom Allen and Ray Bush, Curve Royalty ...

On S-Ong: Spotify appoints Sulinna Ong as head of artist and label services

Sulinna Ong has joined Spotify as head of artist and label services UK, Music Week has learned. She will report to Tom Connaughton, Spotify UK managing director. ...

UMG partners with Nigerian streaming service UduX

Universal Music Group has signed a licensing deal with Nigerian music streaming service UduX. UMG is the first major music company to license its catalogue to UduX, Nigeria’s ...

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