SoundCloud is adding video ads, the latest service to roll out the commercial format. Often referred to as the “YouTube for audio,” SoundCloud said Tuesday it is debuting video advertising across its mobile apps in the United States. The ads, which can be either horizontal or vertical format, will pop up between tracks when your …

The US music industry has been beating the drum against YouTube, and now Taylor Swift is falling in step. Swift has joined an open letter to Congress with 185 other artists, the three major labels, the main trade organization for indie labels and other music industry groups. (Check the full list below. You’re sure to find at least one musician …

The flashiest US music awards show will start considering tunes released solely through the music industry’s biggest business now: streaming. The group that runs the Grammy Awards said Thursday that streaming-only releases would be considered for next year’s awards, set to be doled out in February for music released in the year since last October. Previously, music needed to be …

Vrse, a company that makes virtual-reality films and is known for helping create The New York Times’ VR projects, is changing its name to Within, and it announced a $12.56 million round of funding. “When you’re in VR, you’re experiencing something that you are within,” Drew Larner, the company’s chief operating officer, said in an interview. “We didn’t want our …

TV-streaming site Hulu has expanded its virtual-reality app to work on the Oculus headset, the high-end VR viewing device made by Facebook-owned Oculus. Hulu also introduced a new virtual viewing room for “12 Monkeys,” a TV show that first airs on Syfy. The gritty, dungeonlike laboratory re-creates the show’s “temporal facility.” Yes, it puts you in a time machine. (It …

Twitter is investing about $70 million in SoundCloud, the audio-upload service that the social-media company once considered a takeover target, according to a report. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed the company’s investment to news site Recode but didn’t provide further specifics. The $70 million amount is part of a round that should be worth about $100 million total, and it …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple Music gets simple with cleaner look and design 2:11 Apple Music has hit 15 million subscribers less than one year after launch, half the number of bigger rival Spotify. Apple executive Eddy Cue announced the new number as …

The geeks are putting up the velvet rope. Geek-culture media brands Nerdist and Geek & Sundry plan to launch a paid membership service this year that mixes exclusive video and other content with perks such as merchandise discounts, access to offline events and the ability to essentially video-conference into a live show with the programs’ stars. Their free content will …

Google’s Chromecast is due for a victory lap, after its shipments nearly doubled those of upscale rival Apple TV earlier this year, researcher IHS said Friday. In the first three months of 2016, Google shipped 3.2 million Chromecasts to market versus the 1.7 million Apple TVs shipped in the same period, according to IHS. Before that, Apple had always beat …

Amazon plans to give anyone the option of subscribing to its Prime Music streaming service for $9.99 a month, according to a report by Reuters. That would put Prime Music in direct competition with streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, which also charge about $10 a month for unlimited access to a trove of millions of songs. However, Prime …