Accounts reveal nearly £6mn in earnings days after being criticised by Neil Young for being a ‘corporate turn-off’
Mass, cross-generational audiences have disappeared and even MrBeast can’t find them
Women top charts for majority of weeks in 2024 and claim half of top 20 best-selling albums for the first time
Latest accounts for 2023 will add to concerns over financial outlook of Sunday newspaper’s new proprietor
Footballer continues to earn healthily from his name more than a decade after retiring from professional game
Cecilia Sala jailed days after two Iranians were detained in Italy and Switzerland for allegedly passing on drone technology
The manosphere’s podcasting heroes are the natural successors to radio shock-jocks
Reformist government promises removal of more internet curbs as it seeks to ease restrictions on population
$2.1bn deal comes as Rupert Murdoch’s conglomerate narrows focus to news, property and publishing
Company co-founders reaped $900mn in gains this year
Action films from country’s south have won audience favour while Bollywood has endured string of flops
Populism is the winner in the shift from traditional to social media and from text to video and audio
Private members club and media haunt was forced to close by Westminster City Council last month
Agreement gives owner of Guardian and Observer newspapers a 9% stake in digital start-up
Playing the links
Disney-owned network’s $15mn defamation settlement has alarmed advocates of press freedom
Consultation could see easier access to copyrighted works but require tech groups to be clearer on what they have used
Launch marks first stage of planned global rollout of high-end venues by US media company
Coalition of publishers, authors and musicians says it wants to be paid fairly and retain control of its work
The network will also express its ‘regret’ over comments by anchor George Stephanopoulos
Success of speciality distributor Fathom Events comes as studios wrestle with Donald Trump’s election victory
Lo-fi, unpolished performances have become more popular than carefully stage-managed versions of reality
How British retailers became obsessed with winning the nation’s hearts
Government to launch consultation on controlling tech ‘scraping’ of voice, image or material of famous individuals
Partnership is latest sign of diminishing importance of traditional TV platforms in favour of social media channels
