Warner Music Group sells Uproxx, HipHopDX and other media assets to Uproxx Founder and CEO Jarret Myer
by Music Business Worldwide
Music Business Worldwide— Rich Antoniello joins new company UPROXX Studios as Partner and Executive Chairman; will.i.am joins as Partner/Investor Source
Music Business Worldwide—Warner Music Group boss Robert Kyncl backs US Senate bill to crack down on AI deepfakes. Kyncl to give testimony to a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Commitee on Tuesday (April 30) Source
Awful Announcing—G/O Media sells The Onion to 'Global Tetrahedron,' ex-NBC reporter Ben Collins to serve as CEO. Former Deadspin overlord G/O Media’s most notable media moves recently have been selling off titles. And that continued Thursday with news that they’re selling satirical site The Onion. But, rather than piecing it off to an under-the-radar gambling-linked company like the one that bought Deadspin, they sold The Onion to a group of prominent digital
The Hollywood Reporter—Universal Music Group and TikTok Strike New Music Licensing Agreement. The two companies had been at loggerheads over royalties paid out by TikTok, with UMG pulling the music of artists such as Drake, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga from the social media platform.