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Nine-year-old Merlin and 14-year-old JioSaavn just recently unveiled their broadened licensing agreement. The newly finalized pact “marks the first renewal between the two parties since regional music streaming service Saavn merged with India’s JioMusic” back in 2018, at which point the Jio Platforms subsidiary adopted its current name. Source: Merlin and JioSaavn Finalize ‘Enhanced’ Licensing Agreement
Online, there’s a lost media community dedicated to preserving everything from unaired television pilots to unreleased video game prototypes. Currently, the lost media community exists on both YouTube and the Lost Media wiki, an archive of thousands of lost media topics. Source: Meet the YouTubers determined to find lost media
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YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl has revealed that a full 25 percent of YouTube viewer hours are spent on music, with another 25 percent deriving from media companies and the remaining half coming from user-generated content. Factoring based upon Google higher-up Philipp Schindler’s statement that there were “a billion-plus hours of video watched every day” on Read More …