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- 10 New Labels Sign Up For Digital Distribution Service
- Browser Based Application Gives Labels Full Control Over Digital Assets
- Company Opens UK Office To Cater For Increased Demand
Digital distribution platform FUGA is rapidly establishing itself as an essential tool in the digital music market as ten more labels, distributors and aggregators – Skint, Ultra Records, Cr2 Records, Black Hole Recordings, Banshee Worx – Bonzai Music, Clone Digital, Be Yourself Music, N.E.W.S NV, AnD Press and Stylus Music – sign up to the increasingly popular service.
Representing artists such as Fatboy Slim, Deadmau5, Freemasons, Tiësto, Plump DJs, Bob Sinclair, Stanton Warriors, John ‘00’ Fleming, MYNC, Aeroplane, Deetron and KasKade, these labels will now benefit from FUGA’s innovative approach to digital distribution.
Launched in spring 2008, FUGA is a web application that is used by record labels, distributors and aggregators worldwide to manage their digital catalogue from a central location. Using the platform’s simple user interface, content owners can easily maintain their catalogue’s metadata, make new compilations from already uploaded items, create digital release schedules and access up to the minute data on where their releases have been delivered. FUGA is connected to more than two hundred online stores such as iTunes, Spotify, Beatport, Amazon and Napster and other Digital Service Providers around the globe.
FUGA does not act as a distributor or reseller between the labels and the online stores. These deals are negotiated directly between FUGA customers and the stores.
To cater for this ever increasing demand the company plans to expand its operations and open new offices worldwide. With the UK identified as one of the largest target markets for labels interested in using the service, and with many British labels already avid users, opening a British FUGA office was the obvious first step to further build and develop these relationships and to further reach out to their potential global client base.
Running the new office will be Lee Morrison, who will be based in Brighton and regularly in London. Morrison, who has been involved in music distribution since the early nineties, and has specialised in digital distribution since 2000, started his own company alexlee Music Management in 2002, was then Director of Sales and New Business at Broadstreet Digital, and more recently has been working as a digital consultant for Skint / Loaded Records.
Said Martijn Tjho, founder of Independent IP “I am very happy that more and more content owners see the benefit of direct relationships with online stores and the web as an integrated part of their music business. This is the future; and all music businesses need to focus on is the music and taking it to their online audiences.”
Commented Lee Morrison, “I am extremely excited to be working with such a proven brand as FUGA, it is a pleasure to represent a platform that does exactly what it is intended to do, and work alongside a team that is as dedicated and knowledgeable as FUGA’s”
“Having used FUGA at label level already, I firmly believe that such a transparent and efficient platform should be at the heart of all successful businesses wanting to distribute content to the web.”
