🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Karma Bertelsen
This week, we spoke to Karma Bertelsen - Marketing Strategy Director, EMEA at FUGA and founder of Hype Drop Club, a digital resource and community we often point people towards.…
🎧 Approved: Babeheaven
Babeheaven return after four years with ‘Beloved’ - an intimate track built on soothing keys and Anderson’s soft but assured voice. After cancelled tours and time out, ‘Beloved’ doesn’t try to reclaim ground. Instead, it offers a new starting point - careful, quiet and completely sure of itself…
YouTube now the second most watched media platform in the UK, behind only the BBC
YouTube is now second only to the BBC when it comes to at-home video consumption, according to a new report from OfCom. The regulator considers what that means for traditional public service broadcasters like the BBC, having recently suggested new laws to force YouTube to sign-post their content…
Spotify age-checks could result in accounts being deleted, but only if you’re twelve
Last week age-check requirements contained in the UK’s Online Safety Act went into force, meaning platforms must check a user’s age before they access content that is deemed harmful to children. That includes Spotify, where new age-check rules led to fears some users might see their accounts deleted…
Implementation of EU AI Act “solely benefits” AI companies say creator groups who demand a complete rethink
The European Commission has now published various documents setting out how AI companies should comply with copyright and transparency obligations in the EU AI Act. However, creator groups say their concerns were ignored when those documents were being compiled and they should therefore be rewritten…
Judge rules against Royal Albert Hall seat owners in dispute over the venue’s slightly bizarre seat ownership system
1250 seats at London’s Royal Albert Hall are owned by third parties who control access to those seats, although the venue can exclude the seat owners from a set number of shows per year. The Hall was sued for doing that too often, but a judge has declined to rule against the venue’s management…
As FTC begins crack down on ticket scalping, scalpers say Ticketmaster endorses their practices
The FTC in the US has started to crackdown on ticket scalpers that it reckons have violated the BOTS Act, which prohibits certain practices for sourcing tickets for resale. But one targeted scalping company says its ticket sourcing practices are not only lawful but also authorised by Ticketmaster…
🎧 Approved: Snooper
Snooper started as a scrappy home-recording project in Nashville and accidentally became one of the most exciting live bands around. New single ‘Worldwide’ finds them pulling that chaos into sharper shapes without losing the weird…
HYBE’s headquarters raided twice in one week as legal issues spiral
The Seoul HQ of K-pop company HYBE has been raided twice in the last week, first by officials investigating fraud allegations against founder Bang Si-hyuk and then today by tax inspectors. Both raids relate to allegations of misconduct around HYBE’s 2020 initial public offering…
UK government says it will ramp up ‘agent of change’ as it seeks to simplify the licensing of night-time businesses
The UK government has published a Plan For Change that aims to simplify the licensing of bars, clubs and music venues. It includes ramping up the ‘agent of change’ principle, which was added to planning guidelines in 2018, but the industry says those guidelines have been too open to interpretation…
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