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Indian live entertainment company SkillBox has launched Zenith Studio, an “AI-powered ‘event creation’ engine” that enables organisers to generate listings, descriptions, ticketing information and artwork using a single-line prompt or uploaded poster. Its launch has been accompanied by a new logo and redesigned app and website that “reflects the breadth” of its businesses.

"Eric Baker appears to be using his positions at Andro Capital and StubHub to profit, potentially at the expense of customers, fans, and artists," said Robert Garcia, ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

FestIndex is the name of a new benchmarking platform that could help festivals navigate what the company’s founders believe to be “a new era of social media marketing.”

Across 437 events analyzed so far in 2026, FestIndex has found that just 14% of festivals (or 62 in numbers) generated 62% of engagement and 58% of recorded video views on Instagram and TikTok.

Tickitto has partnered with Google to place its live event inventory in the events section of the search engine’s listings.

Being available in Google Search is hoped to expand Tickitto’s reach beyond the travel partners it currently serves.

If you’ve been feeling nostalgic for your old iPod, you can head over to Apple Music’s 404 page to listen to music on a virtual re-creation of the first-generation iPod. The hidden iPod was spotted by users on social media on Friday. It’s appropriately stocked with music from the early 2000s, like Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” or Gorillaz’s “Feel Good Inc.” The iPod seems to pop up on any non-existent Apple Music page, so you can find it by just adding a string of random letters after the main Apple Music URL.

In Q3 2026, we grew to 306 million Premium Subscribers, with growth across every region, and reached 788 million Monthly Active Users, while our Gross Margin and Operating Income came in ahead of expectations. We continued to add value for listeners, artists, creators, and authors by expanding Audiobooks to more than 180 markets by year end, bringing the Spotify Partner Program to 35 more markets, and launching Creator Memberships.

Reservoir Media is the latest music rightsholder taking aim at AI companies in the courts. It’s gone with a double-pronged attack, suing both Suno and Anthropic on the same day this week.

Oak View Group today announced the winners for the third annual OVG Arena Alliance Awards, recognizing the exceptional people and venues whose leadership, creativity and dedication help deliver extraordinary experiences for artists, touring professionals, fans and communities.

Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete with same-category models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, and Meta.

YouTube has published a new Culture & Trends report, looking at how people use generative AI to express themselves creatively – and it points to some interesting new UGC potential. In a survey of almost 700 US video posters aged 14 to 44, 72% said they use AI on their videos or images. 61% said they’re interested in using it to insert themselves into content, and more than two-thirds of those already making AI videos feature themselves in them. According to YouTube, many people use it for “digital costume changes” and imagining themselves in different roles. For artist teams, a logical use case would be to get fans to insert themselves into the artist’s music video as a shareable campaign element, for example.

We’ve been following the burst of launches of personal agents – Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet – with keen interest recently. Unsurprisingly, so has Spotify.

Its co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström spent a lot of time talking about them during the company’s quarterly earnings call yesterday.

There are no flies in the ointment of the overwhelming touring success of Noah Kahan. The fan enthusiasm that led to across-the-board sellouts for his “Great Divide World Tour” this past summer is highly likely to continue when his “The Last of the Bugs World Tour” hits stadiums in North America and Europe in the spring and summer of 2027. The highly anticipated dates were announced Thursday morning as an online countdown clock drew to a close.

The world premiere of the David Bowie immersive concert experience, “Stage,” has been set for Feb. 14 at Berlin’s Uber Arena. It will play during the Berlin Film Festival, representing a rare foray into alternative programming at the European film event.

The experience, which combines previously unseen Bowie concert footage and immersive sound and light, is designed around recently discovered and restored footage from the 1978 Isolar II World Tour, during which Bowie performed material from his album “Heroes.”

AEG Presents has promoted Chris Hammond to Senior Vice President of the Pacific Northwest from his previous role as VP of Talent at the promoter’s Las Vegas office. Hammond will now be based in Seattle, where he will oversee “booking and operational strategy for AEG Presents’ growing portfolio of Pacific Northwest venues.” He will report to Brent Fedrizzie, President of North American Regional Offices.

In January 2025 unreleased Eminem tracks started to mysteriously appear online, prompting an FBI investigation that linked the leaks to one of the rapper’s former employees, Joseph Strange. He has now pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement and faces up to five years in jail 

Spotify hit its key targets in Q3 2026, packing on 6 million subscribers in the period to 306 million and posting healthier growth in ad revenue.

Live Nation Entertainment has amended its court disclosure about negotiations with the Department of Justice to confirm that President Donald Trump briefly appeared at the March 5 meeting where the company and federal officials finalized the terms of their controversial antitrust settlement.

The October 21 filing also revises Live Nation’s account of a February conversation between Trump and CEO Michael Rapino, adding details about the Kennedy Center and specifying that the president asked about the status of the federal antitrust lawsuit.

AI audio company Sonilo announces an $11 million funding round led by B Capital with participation from Redpoint. The funds will help scale operations.
Sonilo, a generative audio company that builds proprietary video-native music and sound models, has announced an $11 million funding round led by B Capital, with participation from Redpoint. The company will use the funding for compute infrastructure to scale model performance, go-to-market expansion across creator and developer platforms, and grow its music licensing.

With Halloween nigh, the music industry might heed some warnings from horror films. As the lore goes, vampires are only allowed to enter a home once invited in.

Spotify had a strong third quarter, reaching 788 million monthly active users and generating nearly €5 billion (around $5.6 billion USD) in revenue. But the more interesting takeaway from its earnings call was how the company sees people listening to music in the future, and why the rise of AI agents could be good news for its business.

As it grapples with high-stakes infringement complaints from UMG, Sony Music, and a slew of others, the AI music platform is now demanding a trove of streaming-data documents, pertaining to several DSPs, from the MLC.

The Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) has teamed with a group of promoters, ticketing platforms, booking agencies, venues and trade bodies to launch the Promoter Good Practice Guide.

AFEM said the aim of the guide is to provide a resource outlining professional standards that strive to foster trust, sustainability, and fairness for all. It has been created in partnership with promoters including Future is Sound and Monkey Project; ticketing outlets including Skiddle and Ticketmaster; booking agencies including WME, CAA, Primary Talent, and Bullitt Agency; the Association for Independent Promoters; and Resident Advisor.