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Over a sleepy weekend in late August, entrepreneur and business author Gary Vaynerchuk racked up more than one million preorders of his coming book. It was one of the industry’s biggest advance orders for a single title in a 24-hour period. The reason was less about his new leadership book than the gift he promised with Read More …

Snapchat has struck a deal with Sony Music Entertainment to include the major record company’s artists’ music in the app’s library of licensed music. This deal means that Snapchat now has partnerships in place with all three major labels. Source: Snapchat inks licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment

On Thursday, Universal Music Group (UMG) announced it had signed Kingship – not a musician, but a collection of four anthropomorphic non-fungible tokens (NFT). Billed as a “metaverse group,” Kingship is a partnership between UMG and the NFT investor Jimmy McNelis, who owns the four tokens in question. Source: For Universal’s NFT Band, Music Is Second Read More …

The membership of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has voted to ratify a new three-year agreement, ending the threat of the first national strike in the union’s history. The vote was unusually close, with 256 delegates voting yes on the Basic Agreement, and 188 voting no. Source: IATSE Members Vote to Ratify Contract, Ending Read More …