Category: Jaybird Communications
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Jaybird 2025 End of Year Update
Jaybird 2025 Recap As we cozy on up to the fireplace with our hot cocoa or other festive drinks in hand to enjoy the rest of the year, we wish you and yours a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year! We hope 2026 brings you happiness, joy, laughter,…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Dec. 19, 2025
It’s the last Weekly Headline Roundup of 2025! This week we’re looking at the biggest stories in 2025, the word of the year, indie publisher market share, the biggest AI stories of 2025, predictions for 2026, and more. Year-End Roundup: The Biggest Music Business Stories of 2025 (And a Look…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Dec. 12, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at combatting fraud, the new mechanical royalty rates, Spotify’s launch of music videos, and more. Indie publisher trade body says members should reject AI deals that do not value songs properly The major labels’ big deals with Suno and Udio…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Dec. 5, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at AI transparency, ISWCs, need for better metadata in AI, indie label revenue sharing, Bad Bunny, and the 10th Anniversary of Music Business Worldwide. ECSA calls for transparency over the major’s AI deals – and confirmation songs and recordings will…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Nov. 25, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at Udio’s future, future of labels, UMG acquisition, how much content Suno makes, funding, and continuing to highlight our our first Pass The Mic interview with Stuart Dredge. UMG & WMG Are Reshaping Udio for 2026. Just One Question: Will…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Nov. 21, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at our first Pass The Mic interview, super fans creating AI music, Spotify’s new song credit features, AI, and Tiny Desk. AI music creators: music’s superfans Not a week seems to go by without some big news in the world…
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Pass the Mic: A Conversation with Stuart Dredge of Music Ally
Over the past 16 years, Jaybird Communications has been lucky enough to work with some of the best journalists covering the music business. These reporters are the ones writing the history of our industry, telling the story of its evolution, and charting its future. Now, we want to turn the…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Nov. 14, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at the global increase in songwriter royalties, new Spotify and NMPA AV deal, AI track uploads, and importance of local culture. Global songwriter royalty collections reached $13.6bn in 2024, up 7.2%, CISAC reports Creator royalties hit another all-time high in…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Nov. 7, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at the launch of Billboard in India, latest UMG revenue, Spotify’s subscriber base numbers, and more. Billboard Launches in India in Partnership with Other Side Ventures, Backed by Priyanka Khimani On Monday (Nov. 3), Billboard announced the launch of Billboard…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Oct. 31, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at a new report on paid streaming platforms, an update on the Universal and Udio lawsuit, and more. Report Finds Majority of Time with Streaming Music Is Now Spent with Paid Platforms Audio habits and preferences have obviously changed in…