• Apple Yields to EU Demands on Music Streaming

    Apple has reversed course in the battle over music-streaming services in Europe. As Bloomberg News reported Friday (April 5), the tech giant has accepted demands by the European Union that it stop blocking music apps from notifying listeners of cheaper services outside the Apple app store. Now, Apple says music apps can link to developer websites and […]

  • Teens Love iPhone and Apple Watch, But Not Apple Music and Apple TV+

    The iPhone continues to be overwhelmingly popular with teens, according to Piper Sandler's biannual teen survey. 85 percent of U.S. teens surveyed own an ‌iPhone‌, and 86 percent plan to purchase an ‌iPhone‌ as their next smartphone. While the ‌iPhone‌ is still the most popular smartphone among teens, ownership is down from the October 2023 survey where 87 percent of teens owned an ‌iPhone‌ and 88 percent planned to purchase one.Both the 85% iPhone ownership and 86% intention to purchase an...

  • You can now watch TCM classic movies on Fandango's streaming service

    Movie ticketing company Fandango teamed up with Turner Classic Movies (TCM) to add 30 titles to the Fandango At Home streaming service (ex-Vudu).

  • Apple Music leads HomePod streaming, but Spotify has an incredibly strong position

    Apple Music emerges as the top choice for HomePod users -- with Spotify also very strong on the platform. Is Amazon Music evidence of a monopoly? Recent research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has shed light on the competitive music streaming hardware landscape. It reveals that Amazon's in-house music services, Prime Music and Amazon Music Unlimited, are gaining significant traction. The popularity of Amazon Music, however, raises concerns about fair competition,...

  • EU regulators assess Apple's plan for complying with music streaming order

    EU antitrust regulators are checking if an Apple proposal would comply with their order to let Spotify and other music streaming services inform users of payment options outside its App Store, the European Commission said on Monday. The iPhone maker risks antitrust charges and fresh fines if its proposal announced last Friday fails to satisfy the EU competition enforcer, which issued its order together with a 1.84 billion euro ($2 billion) fine last month Under Apple's proposal, the Swedish...

  • EU regulators assess Apple's plan for complying with music streaming order

    EU antitrust regulators are checking to see if an Apple proposal would comply with their order to let Spotify and other music streaming services inform users of payment options outside its App Store, the European Commission said on Monday. The iPhone maker risks antitrust charges and fresh fines if its proposal announced last Friday fails to satisfy the EU competition enforcer, which issued its order together with a 1.84 billion euro ($2 billion) fine last month Under Apple's proposal, the...

  • SESAC Music Group expands music services division, hires Andy Bodkin as President, International

    Bodkin joins SESAC Music Group from Out of the Ark, where he served as Group CEO Source

  • SESAC Music Group promotes Rose Cook to COO, Music Services; Monica Hertz to Senior Director, Operations

    The new appointments are part of SESAC's expansion of its Music Services division Source

    • CNET

    Best Streaming Services of 2024

    Feeling bombarded with streaming service choices? This list is here to make your decision-making easier!

  • The best streaming services in 2024

    There are too many streaming services to keep track of today — and with prices steadily rising, you might be asking yourself if it’s still worthwhile at all to subscribe to these services instead of cable. We share those frustrations but have ultimately decided this oversaturated space offers much more than the basic-cable world that came before it. But now, you have to wade through all of those options and figure out which have the content you want to watch, which fit into your budget, which...

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    Netflix is the dominant streaming service. So why is it changing its model?

    Netflix, the dominant player in streaming, is expected to announce its first-quarter results on Thursday after enjoying months as a Wall Street darling. But much of the company’s past growth and success, analysts say, has come from its old, well-established business model. In recent months, Netflix has made moves to expand and even radically reinvent that business. While streaming competitors like Disney+, Hulu, Max (owned by CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery) and Peacock work to draw...

  • Netflix is the dominant streaming service. So why is it changing its model?

    Netflix, the dominant player in streaming, is expected to announce its first-quarter results on Thursday after enjoying months as a Wall Street darling.