Discover 2023's leading private equity players in media and Hollywood, the top firms financing the entertainment industry with strategic funding and investments.
Fintech startup RYLTY is helping music rights holders collect, clean, merge and analyze royalty data so they can best optimize their time, resources and ROI.
Blackstone Inc. plans to invest $1 billion in acquiring music rights, as the asset manager bets on a nascent but exploding category that is benefiting from the rapid growth of online streaming.
It has long been a stock slogan in the media business: “Content is king.” The idea is that intellectual property is vital to distribution systems like cable TV or streaming music, so owning and controlling it can be powerful leverage and a valuable investment. But one investor, Sherrese Clarke Soares, has a twist on the old chestnut: “Content is queen.”