February, 2026

Suno admits it has not deleted all the recordings used to train its AI, in answer to UMG and Sony’s ‘laundering’ lawsuit
The 44-page answer was filed on Tuesday (October 20) in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and reviewed by MBW. Source...

Defected founder Simon Dunmore acquires majority stake in House Culture: ‘I was premature in my retirement’
Simon Dunmore, the founder of UK house music label Defected Records, has acquired a majority shareholding in House Culture, a media brand that started life as an Instagram page. House Culture now plan...

Spotify launches native in-car app with Audi – less than two years after switching off Car Thing
Spotify discontinued Car Thing in 2022, taking a one-time charge of EUR €31 million (around USD $31.4 million) on the device in Q2 2022. Source...

EMPIRE founder Ghazi launches B2B music infrastructure company Supply Chain globally, with Beatport-owned Ampsuite as launch partner
Supply Chain has also hired Craig May as SVP, Marketing, and Kristy May as SVP, Business Affairs. Source...

Universal Music Group becomes first major music company to license TYGER, which uses AI to adapt songs to gameplay in real time
Select recordings and songs from UMG's recorded music and publishing catalogs will become available on TYGER's paid, on-demand subscription service. Source...

Liz Morentin launches communications agency Greenvalley Media & Marketing
Morentin most recently served as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Communications and Brand Strategy at Virgin Music Group, Universal Music Group's global independent music division. Source...

Paywall Strategy for the AI Era: Stay Cited, Still Get Paid
Paywalled publishers got 0% of AI citations in one 2026 test. See what the data shows and a 7-step paywall strategy to stay visible and still earn....

Programmatic Ad Fees: How Much Reaches Publishers in 2026
Programmatic ad fees took 27.2% of spend in Q2 2026 and only 45.1% reached quality impressions. See the data and 7 ways publishers keep more of each dollar....

5 Best Companies for Legacy Software Modernization and Cloud Migration
Legacy software modernization is the work of taking an application that still runs the business (often a monolith on aging servers, sometimes COBOL on a mainframe) and rebuilding, re-platforming, or m...

Applying for a Hotel SBA Loan: A Step-by-Step Checklist for First-Time Buyers
You are eleven days into your first hotel purchase. The purchase agreement is signed, the seller is motivated, and the banker on the phone has just asked you to send over the STR report and the curren...

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