Podcasts
Understanding How Digital & Physical Mechanical Royalties Work
This week, Ari is joined by Serona Elton, head of educational partnerships at the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), to discuss mechanical royalties and licensing in the music industry.
Spotify
20,500 Artists Made $50K+ From Spotify Last Year
Spotify just revealed its annual Loud and Clear report revealing some top level numbers with some granular insights from 2023.
Podcasts
From Gamer to Billion Stream Club as a DIY Artist/Producer
TheFatRat is known to be the world's most influential Gaming Music artist. His music ranges from euphoric progressive house to trap and melodic glitch-hop, with a heavy influence of video game music. The artist’s forward-thinking approach to lift copyright restrictions on his music has led to him having been featured in 30+ million videos from a range of different content creators-collectively accounting for over 29 billion views on YouTube.
Podcasts
How Artists Get Paid From YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and the Rest
Jamie Dee Hart is a music rights management advocate who’s passionate about giving back and educating creators at all levels of their career. She’s the Founder & CEO of Hart & Songs, an artist and rights management firm ensuring independent artists, producers, and songwriters properly register songs and effectively collect their royalties.
Podcasts
Is AI Music Taking Royalties From Musicians and Composers?
This week, Ari is joined by Oleg Stavitsky, the CEO and Co-Founder of Endel.
Podcasts
BMG A&R on Pub Deals, Artist Development and Signing Frank Ocean
This week, Ari is joined by Tab Nkhereanye, Senior Vice President of A&R at BMG.
Royalties
If UMG Gets Its Way, Smaller Indie Artists Won’t Get Paid As Much From Streaming
Last week, UMG and Deezer made an announcement that is set to be the biggest upheaval to the recorded music industry payment structure since the launch of streaming.
Podcasts
How Admin Publishing Works, Sync Deals, Social Media Marketing (Ari Q&A Part 7)
This week Ari answers more of your questions! If you’d like to submit to our next round of questions, please sign up to our email list.
Podcasts
How Royalties Work for Producers, Songwriters, Artists, Labels; Release Strategy (Ari Q&A Part 5)
This week Ari answers more of your questions! If you’d like to submit to our next round of questions, please sign up to our email list.
Podcasts
Explaining Sync Licensing From the Agents
Established in 2002, Blue Buddha Entertainment is a boutique music licensing firm.
Latest News
How To Get Your Music on TV, Video Games and in Movies (Sync Licensing)
I study the sync licensing realm (getting songs placed in film, tv, commercials, video games) quite a bit.
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