February, 2026

Vevo unveils 2027 DSCVR Artists to Watch list, names Sienna Spiro DSCVR Artist of the Year
Vevo kicks off tipping season with prestigious Artists To Watch list Source...

Josh Van Valkenburg named President of UMPG Nashville, as Troy Tomlinson moves into advisory role
Van Valkenburg will be based in Nashville and will report to UMPG Chairman and CEO Jody Gerson. Source...

Ad Blocking Recovery: How Publishers Win Back Blocked Revenue
Ad blocking recovery matters as an estimated 1.1 billion users block ads, and one gaming site found about 18% of its audience did. See 7 smart steps....

How To Start A Forex Trading Business
If charts and news is your thing, then you are probably someone who will find trading exciting. Forex trading, as the term suggests, is the buying and selling of currencies. In everyday lingo, this is...

TikTok’s SoundOn strikes ‘landmark’ deal to distribute Daddy Yankee’s ‘La Postal’ album, in what it calls its ‘biggest artist partnership to date’
TikTok is backing the album with a global campaign, including a Times Square billboard. Source...

Too Lost signs Dubai-based Afterpeak, home to 25,000+ releases, to exclusive distribution deal with ‘multi-seven-figure’ financing
Founded in 2020 by CEO Avery Chauhan, Afterpeak says its catalog of originals, covers, and reworks has generated more than 3 billion Spotify streams. Source...

D.C. asks court to reject SeatGeek and Vivid Seats’ bid to block 10% ticket resale cap, says platforms want a ‘judicial veto’
DC argues that the resale platforms "dressed their policy objections up in constitutional garb and turned to this Court for a judicial veto." Source...

Samsung’s Harman launches Drops, a TikTok-style music discovery app, with Universal, Beggars and EMPIRE among its partners
The app lets users listen to song clips lasting between 10 and 30 seconds, shared by friends and tastemakers on the platform. Source...

Adobe’s Premiere mobile app adds ‘hundreds of thousands’ of licensed tracks following Universal and Warner deals
Adobe named Olivia Dean and Noah Kahan among the artists now available in the app, a week after announcing its UMG and WMG deals. Source...

Diplo and former Downtown CEO Andrew Bergman launch independent publisher Bison Music
Bergman is CEO of Bison, alongside COO Tom Lee, CCO Juba Lee, and General Manager Jenny Ilibassi. Source...

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