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Three Six Zero launches Entertainment & New Media division, led by Rebecca Dowell
Dowell will look to sign digital creators, multi-hyphenate creatives, and IP-based projects, according to the company. Source...

Chad Hugo accuses Pharrell Williams of trying to ‘erase’ him from The Neptunes, as he fights bid to throw out lawsuit
Hugo's lawyers accuse Williams of an "effort to rewrite history and turn The Neptunes' success into the work of only one person." Source...

Suno admits it has not deleted all the recordings used to train its AI, in answer to UMG and Sony’s ‘laundering’ lawsuit
The 44-page answer was filed on Tuesday (October 20) in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and reviewed by MBW. Source...

Defected founder Simon Dunmore acquires majority stake in House Culture: ‘I was premature in my retirement’
Simon Dunmore, the founder of UK house music label Defected Records, has acquired a majority shareholding in House Culture, a media brand that started life as an Instagram page. House Culture now plan...

Spotify launches native in-car app with Audi – less than two years after switching off Car Thing
Spotify discontinued Car Thing in 2022, taking a one-time charge of EUR €31 million (around USD $31.4 million) on the device in Q2 2022. Source...

EMPIRE founder Ghazi launches B2B music infrastructure company Supply Chain globally, with Beatport-owned Ampsuite as launch partner
Supply Chain has also hired Craig May as SVP, Marketing, and Kristy May as SVP, Business Affairs. Source...

Universal Music Group becomes first major music company to license TYGER, which uses AI to adapt songs to gameplay in real time
Select recordings and songs from UMG's recorded music and publishing catalogs will become available on TYGER's paid, on-demand subscription service. Source...

Reservoir sues Suno and Anthropic for infringing songs by Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash, Madonna and more
Reservoir also filed a separate lawsuit against Anthropic in the same court on the same day. Source...

Spotify is on course for $3.3B annual operating profit in 2026 – after adding 6M subscribers in Q3
Spotify published its financial results for Q3 2026 (the three months to the end of September) earlier today (October 22). Source...

ChatGPT Ads Hit 89 Countries: What It Means for Publishers
ChatGPT ads now run in 89 countries with 100,000+ advertisers. See the growth data, the churn caveat, and five moves publishers should make now....