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Global music revenues were up 10.2 percent last year to $28.6 billion, according figures released on March 21.

The biggest artist in the world was, no surprise, Taylor Swift, according to the annual report by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents global record companies.

According to reports from the renowned The Wall Street Journal, Netflix is preparing to foray into live streaming of sporting events with its first live streaming of a golf tournament featuring celebrity golfers and Formula One drivers.

Around 87.1 percent of the Turkish population in the 16-74 age group have benefitted from the internet in 2023, using it for different purposes such as online shopping, ordering food and streaming, reveals a survey by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).

Netflix has said subscriptions to the media streaming service climbed by nearly 6 million in the wake of its crackdown on password sharing.

The streaming giant finished the recently ended quarter with a total of 238 million subscribers and a profit of $1.5 billion.

The 16th Insurance Conference (Inco) is taking place on Wednesday as a LiveOn Hybrid Event at the Divani Caravel Hotel (2 Vassileos Alexandrou) in Athens with parallel online streaming through LiveOn.

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Ridley Scott's "Napoleon," a film originally created by Apple for its streaming platform, was the unlikely hero of the movie industry's CinemaCon gathering on its opening night on April 24.

A new song created using AI software to imitate Canadian singers Drake and The Weeknd has been removed from streaming services after quickly racking up millions of listens and sparking debate over the new technology.

Films released by streaming services are more racially representative and more likely to have female leads than those that debut in theatres, a study released on March 30 showed.

Movies destined for the small screen were almost entirely reflective of the U.S. population, the Hollywood Diversity Report said, with majority-minority casts doing especially well with audiences.

Vinyl records continued to translate their retro appeal into a steady resurgence, outselling compact discs last year in terms of units in the United States for the first time since 1987.

Revenues from the sale of physical records jumped 4 percent in 2022 to $1.7 billion, according to the latest report from the Recording Industry Association of America released on March 9.

This summer has been a breakthrough for streaming, with the time viewers spent watching services like Netflix and Hulu outpacing broadcast and cable television networks in July for the first month ever.