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How Music For Sport runs a 180-album catalog across territories
Music For Sport has supplied music to every Summer and Winter Olympic Games since 1992. More than three decades and 180-plus albums later, the UK company's job hasn't changed: put high-quality production music in front of broadcas...[ READ MORE ]
YouTube Shorts monetization is now live. Here's what else is new in June.
June was a build-heavy month across our licensing, YouTube, and Collect businesses. We launched a major upgrade to our music-monitoring service, invested in faster and more accurate royalty processing, moved several enterprise integrations...[ READ MORE ]
The operational side of maximizing catalog revenue
One of the clearest indicators of long-term catalog health is whether there’s a real system of record behind it. By that we mean: a single place where the rest of the business can quickly confirm what a work is, who owns it, what iden...[ READ MORE ]
Music Publishers and Streaming Services Announce New Royalty Rate for Songwriters
From 2023 through 2027, Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube, and Pandora have agreed to gradually increase publisher and songwriter royalties to 15.35% of revenue collected. The Digital Media Association (DiMA), the National Music Publisher...[ READ MORE ]