February Newsletter 2025
1. Now Playing: Streaming Forward: Love Is In The Air 2025
The results are in, and it’s official: music fans really love their favorite music streaming services. To celebrate Valentine’s Day, DIMA and MusicWatch released some new research exploring just how much streamers love their favorite service and what’s behind their enthusiasm.
Stay tuned for additional data from DIMA and MusicWatch in the coming months!
2. Tune In: DIMA Comments on “The Path Forward – Working Towards a Sustainable Canadian Broadcasting System”
In February, DIMA submitted comments to the CRTC regarding their Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2025-2 – The Path Forward – Working towards a sustainable Canadian broadcasting system (“Market Dynamics”).
In these comments, DIMA weighed in on key issues affecting Canada’s streaming landscape, emphasizing the critical role music streaming services play and encouraging further collaboration to prevent unnecessary and harmful regulations that would negatively impact services, artists, songwriters, and the music industry as a whole.
3. In Action: DIMA Participation in Music Biz 2025
DIMA is excited to announce our participation in Music Business 2025. This conference will give key stakeholders the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions about the state of the music industry, and DIMA is excited to facilitate conversations about policies and regulations from around the world that will continue streaming music forward. Any DIMA members attending the conference are asked to contact us so we can coordinate networking at the event.
4. In Action: Premier Ford Addresses the U.S. Chamber
Last month, DIMA President & CEO Graham Davies, attended Premier Ford’s talk at the US Chamber, where Ford addressed the Digital Services Tax and C-11 Online Streaming Tax. We were glad to see Premier Ford emphasize the need for Canada to cut discriminatory taxes and regulations that undermine U.S.-Canada relations.
5. Round-Up: DIMA Advocacy
DIMA continues to advance its wider global footprint, engaging in dialogue with Brazilian officials on a number of timely topics.
Stateside, DIMA continues to engage with stakeholders and policymakers on the complex issues surrounding AI and digital replicas.
We also look forward to providing our perspective in response to the U.S. Copyright Office’s recently announced Notice of Inquiry on Performing Rights Organizations (PROs).
Follow DIMA (@dimastreaming) on Twitter to follow the conversation.
