Exploration Audio Newsletter - August 7 2020

This week: Instagram launched a new video feature and TikTok competitor called Reels this week, allowing users to shoot, edit, and post 15-second video clips set to snippets of music or audio. Google also recently announced that Google Play Music will soon be replaced by YouTube Music by December 2020. Snap Inc. secured a few licensing deals with major music companies and members of the NMPA and Merlin to launch a new feature that will allow users to incorporate music into posts on its app Snapchat.