Global advertising body the IAB and PwC have released their ‘2025 Internet Advertising Revenue Report‘, which tracks a 13.9% increase in those revenue last year to $294.6bn – a record total. Within that, social advertising revenues grew by 32.6% to $117.7bn, and are now 40% of alll digital advertising. Digital video was up 25.4% to…
Update (8:45 AM PT): Spotify has now officially begun rolling out the feature globally, confirming that you can disable all video content across music and podcasts. The new controls are being added to settings across mobile, desktop, web, and TV. The company will also allow Premium and Basic users across Individual, Duo, Family, and Student…
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As a lifelong music fan, one of my favorite pastimes is curating playlists. Whether it’s a major life event or a longer-than-usual drive, you can rest assured that I’ll have a playlist ready for the occasion in no time. I’d even go so far as to call it a superpower of mine. With Spotify, making…
June 18 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm Save the date! On Thursday 18 June 2026, our Music Ally NEXT conference will return – as ever looking at the next tech and trends shaping the industry, the next generation of audiences, the best entrepreneurs leading the way, and also with more content focused on “next steps” for some of these areas too. Topic areas that will be covered include: looming social media bans…
On Monday (March 16), Lyor Cohen, global head of music at Google and YouTube, reaffirmed the company’s stance on generative AI and highlighted its emphasis on being “a primary driver of fan loyalty” in his first newsletter of the year. In the newsletter, published on the YouTube blog and sent to music industry partners, Cohen…
Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter, or Telegram and WhatsApp channels for the latest stories and updates. A music video released last year by the country’s oldest broadcasting company, Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM), recently resurfaced on social media. The 3-minute video, which many have claimed is generated by artificial-intelligence, has drawn criticism once again. Malaysians are angry that the national broadcasting entity…
Art and music classrooms are built on something AI will never fully replicate: the deeply personal act of creating something from nothing. A student mixing paint on a palette, a teenager finding their voice in a choir rehearsal, a kid picking up a guitar for the first time and playing three chords that actually sound…
Both Apple and Google are incorporating generative artificial intelligence capabilities centred around music into their main consumer applications. This is significant because generative AI music elements were added to Apple and Google’s primary consumer platforms in February 2026, signalling a move toward widely used AI-driven creative tools. Using Google DeepMind’s most recent Lyria 3 model,…
London-based Mozart AI has raised $6 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Balderton Capital. The round included participation from Mercuri, EWOR, Kevin Hartz, Charles Ferguson, and Emery Wells, alongside existing investors and strategic angel backers from the music, AI, and creator technology sectors. The round follows a pre-seed round raised earlier this…
