Universal Music Group
Summary
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. It is the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations. Universal Music Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of international French media conglomerate Vivendi. Universal Music Group owns a music publisher, Universal Music Publishing Group, which became the world's largest following the acquisition of BMG Music Publishing in May 2007. Vivendi's headquarters are in Paris, France. The UMG global headquarters are located New York City. Other major offices are located in Universal City and Santa Monica, along with Universal Music Group Nashville in Nashville; in the UK the group has a number of offices in London and Romford. "Universal Music" was once the music company attached to film studio Universal Pictures.
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Warner Music Makes a Deal With Small Labels
Warner, which acquired most of the EMI assets that Universal was ordered to dispose of last year, has struck an agreement with two independent trade groups to sell or license "a significant portion" of that music to small companies.
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Media Decoder Blog: Warner Music Makes a Deal With Small Labels
Warner, which acquired most of the EMI assets that Universal was ordered to dispose of last year, has struck an agreement with two independent trade groups to sell or license "a significant portion" of that music to small companies.
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BMG strikes deal to buy Sanctuary Records
Vivendi's Universal Music Group agrees to sell Black Sabbath's label.
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Lexus Nabs 100K Video Views on Facebookâin 10 Minutes
Statistics and opinions almost equally vary about whether or not Facebook ads work. In the automotive realm, of course, there’s General Motors. The company has been a very public critic of the paid social ads, which have the ability to target consumers based on their "like" interests. But that hasn’t stopped Lincoln or Lexus from recently throwing serious coin Mark Zuckerberg's way.
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Universal Tunes In Bollywood Music Streamer
While most brands have Pandora and Spotify on their ad-minded radar, international marketers should probably get to know Bollywood and Hindu digital music streamer Dhingana.
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Wu Lyf: 'Sexist car advert' used our track without permission
Band furious over use of Heavy Pop in Toyota clip, saying they have not been paid and were not asked permission.
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Universal Music Group nearing its digital tipping point
For the world’s biggest music label, the days of revenue decline are over — and soon, it will be surviving mostly on digital money.
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FULL PROGRAMME FOR RADIO FESTIVAL 2012 AVAILABLE ONLINE
With just three days to go until Radio Festival 2012 kicks off, the Radio Academy office is fizzing with excitement! This year’s Festival has a fantastic line-up of big name speakers from across the industry who’ll be discussing all the hottest topics affecting UK radio.
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Vevo Launches Private Exchange Powered By Adap.tv
Video music site Vevo is ready to try real-time bidding as an option to augment its direct sales. The three-year-old company, a joint venture managed by record labels Sony Music and Universal Music Group along with Abu Dhabi Media, is working with digital video sales platform Adap. tv on setting up the private exchange.
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Vevo Rolls Out Real-Time Bidding
The record industry’s mammoth digital music video distributor, Vevo, has become the latest company to embrace real-time bidding, or RTB. Today Vevo will start auctioning off unsold inventory via a platform open only to current Vevo advertisers, including big guns like Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Unilever.
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