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Winamp Group Reports 2026 Half-Year Results: New Growth Drivers Taking Shape

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Winamp revenue up eightfold and Bridger royalty collections up 56% in the first half · Bridger network extended to more than 40 agreements · Service usage growing since the summer

BRUSSELS, October 30, 2026--Regulatory News:

Winamp Group SA (Euronext Growth Paris and Brussels: ALWIN), owner of Winamp, Jamendo, Bridger and Hotmix, today reports its unaudited consolidated results for the six months ended 30 June 2026 and provides an update on business developments since the period end.

After several years spent building its platforms, the Group is now seeing its new businesses start to generate revenue. In the first half of 2026, Winamp's revenue grew eightfold and royalties collected by Bridger rose 56% compared with the first half of 2025. Since their launch in March 2026, website creation, the Fanzone and merchandising have begun to be adopted by artists, and since mid-summer the catalogues artists entrust to the Group have been growing every week. Achieved with deliberately limited marketing spend, this progress shows that the model is starting to deliver.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • H1 2026 results: consolidated revenue of €1.033m (H1 2025: €0.804m as reported, €1.131m after IFRS 15 normalisation), current operating result before depreciation and amortisation of −€1.665m, and net result of −€3.432m, including €1.44m of non-cash charges.

  • New businesses growing versus H1 2025: Winamp revenue up eightfold, driven by merchandising and distribution; royalties collected by Bridger up 56%; Hotmix slightly up.

  • Licensing: more than 315,000 tracks managed for over 12,000 artists; several significant contracts under negotiation.

  • Bridger: more than 40 agreements with collective management organisations, now covering public performance and mechanical rights.

  • Service usage since the summer: close to 40,000 works managed by Bridger, which adds more than 500 new works every week, and more than 250 new tracks received every week for distribution.

  • Financial position: equity strengthened by €2.45m; financial debt reduced from €13.1m to €7.1m, mainly through a €5.2m repayment made without issuing new shares.

Strategy: connecting artists' business with their fan relationships

Independent artists today need to run their careers like a business. Winamp sums up its role in one line: "Artists focus on the music. Winamp runs the business engine." This ambition rests on two platforms connected by the Fanzone.

Winamp for Artists, the artists' business platform, brings together their main monetisation needs (music distribution, copyright and Content ID, licensing, Fanzone and merchandising) alongside marketing and promotion tools such as website creation, social media management and advertising campaigns. Bridger and Jamendo integrate their services into the platform while continuing to run their own commercial operations.

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