Lyor Cohen

YouTube is aiming to drastically increase the amount of ads featured on music videos featured on the site in hopes of convincing users to sign up to their new, forthcoming music subscription service.…

Undoubtedly one of the most attended talks at SXSW so far, Lyor Cohen's keynote filled four meeting rooms at the Austin Convention Centre, with another two reserved for a live stream. The now Global…

Post Malone's 'Rockstar' is one of the biggest songs of 2017, but its chart success was initially buoyed by a looped snippet of the song's chorus presented as a teaser by his label Republic. The…

Lyor Cohen, the veteran U.S. label exec, entrepreneur and now global head of music at YouTube and Google, will deliver the music keynote at SXSW in March 2018. Cohen joins the lineup of the annual…

The good news for the industry: If you’re online, there’s a strong chance you’re consuming licensed music. The bad: piracy and the “value gap” are persistent problems. Recorded music has never been…

In the world of music, Lyor Cohen doesn’t need an intro. The music executive was there at the dawn of hip-hop, through Rush and Def Jam. He’s run indies, majors (Island Def Jam, Warner Music), he’s…

Lyor Cohen, the veteran US label exec, entrepreneur and now global head of music at YouTube, is not only a huge fan of Australian music, he’s willing to give it an almighty push on his company’s…