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Streaming represented nearly 80 percent of US music revenue in 2019

Streaming accounted for nearly 80 percent of American music revenue in 2019 according to the Recording Industry Association of America’s just-released full-year music report. The RIAA has reported that streaming represented 79 percent ($8.8 billion) of American music revenue in 2019, compared to 75 percent the year before. And crucially, more of those were paid […]

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The world is turning against live streaming

Facebook Live was announced in August 2015 as a rival to Twitter’s Periscope live-streaming app. To begin with, access was restricted to VIPs like Serena Williams, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Ricky Gervais and Michael Bublé. Journalists were next to gain access. Since then, all of Facebook’s two-billion-plus active users can live stream video to their […]