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Conversion Starts Here: Designing Pages That Guide User Actions
Website conversion rates don’t simply depend on the attractiveness of your offer. Nor are they entirely determined by the effectiveness of your marketing strategies. A full host of factors influence...

Cookieless Advertising in 2026: What Every Publisher Needs to Know
Third-party cookies are not exactly dead everywhere, but they are basically toast for your ad revenue plan. Safari and Firefox already blocked them, and Chrome still keeps changing the story, which ha...

From Primary Wave’s Kobalt acquisition to CVC’s DistroKid deal… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up
The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source...

Sam Smith and Normani move to end ‘Dancing With a Stranger’ copyright suit, say the older song is itself built on unlicensed samples
It is the second time Smith and the other co-defendants have tried to shut the case down before trial. Source...

Streaming accelerates nostalgia-driven catalog discovery, says Vevo study
The report highlights Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild" as an example of a new release built on borrowed nostalgia. Source...

Dynamite Songs acquires catalog of The Association co-founder Terry Kirkman
The deal adds 71 compositions to the specialist publisher's portfolio, including Cherish, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. Source...

Record industry proposes AI labeling system for streaming platforms
Music orgs want the world's biggest streaming services to start labeling music made with artificial intelligence. Source...

India’s thumpN raises $3.75m for AI-powered live entertainment platform
Backers of the round include Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma's family office VSS Investco and Paytm CFO Madhur Deora. Source...

iHeartMedia settles FCC ‘payola’ probe at its live music events, with no fine and no admission of liability
The FCC investigated whether iHeart broke rules by trading radio airplay for artist performances at its events. Source...

The Recording Academy invites over 4,000, including Lola Young and sombr, to join its 2026 New Member Class
They form the organization's 2026 New Member Class, part of a membership model the Grammys rebuilt in 2019. Source...