Independent: Created by people who live and breathe independent music and are dedicated to making the digital music world lucrative for independent rightsholders.

Online: IODA’s core technology manages the complexities of gettingyour content seamlessly to online retail outlets and promotional partners. Our proprietary Rightsholder Dashboard gives you online access to your digital catalogs, licensing terms, royalty and account data and much more.

Distribution: New methods of distributing music – and getting paid for it – are constantly emerging in every corner of the globe. IODA aims to ensure that independents are represented in every service, from large and established retailers to smaller niche services.

Alliance: Strength in numbers: that’s what it’s all about. Using collective bargaining power to benefit the entire independent community.

The launch pad to their success has been their core music recognition technology that enables anyone with a mobile phone to identify music that is playing – even under noisy conditions – wherever they are, simply by Shazaming it. This clip is run through their database of over 8 million tracks (which extends back to the ’50s) to find an exact fingerprint match.

Shazam is now used in a variety of ways: callers can use it to discover new music and get information about something they haven’t heard before, search for a specific interest, buy a range of music products or simply used as a way of remembering what’s playing so that they can buy it later, or just to create a collection and even pass it on to friends and family.

Shazam supports most of today’s platforms: Android, BlackBerry, BREW, iPhone, J2ME, Symbian and Windows Phone.

iRibbeantunes is a high quality Internet music store. They have in place a number of Digital Distribution Agreements with major Caribbean artists, publishing companies and record management companies. All their music is obtained directly from these sources. They hold non-exclusive rights to all the music, and they are authorized to retail all the music that appears on their website.

At iRibbean Limited they understand the tremendous effort, time and expense that is required to produce quality music. They acknowledge that although they may not be able to completely eradicate piracy, making Caribbean music more widely accessible and easier to purchase is one way to reduce instances of music piracy and lost revenue for the artists.

They deal directly with the artists or authorized representatives to provide the best quality Caribbean music for their customers. They are passionate about what they do, and want to build a customer base that will see them as an honest, well managed company with whom it is a pleaure to do business with.

Buongiorno at a glance:

Partners with over 120 leading cellular carriers including Vodafone, Cingular, Sprint, Orange, O2, TIM, Telefonica and Turkcell

Operates in 53 countries on 5 continents, the widest reach of any content provider in a mobile industry that will soon have 840 million users

Works with all major movie studios: Sony Pictures, Disney/BuenaVista, Warner Bros

Distributes for all 4 major record labels

Pop artists include Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncè, Robbie Williams, 50 Cent and Eminem

Film icons include James Bond, Spiderman, Mickey Mouse, Pink Panther

Pioneer of user-generated content and distribution

Harbeatsdownload.com caters for all your digital media needs. Stocking only a specific window of underground music (Hardcore, Freeform, Hard Dance and Hard Style) they are able to offer the users an un-cluttered environment to buy either singles, bulk EP’s or CD singles (optional). They are very selective on the product taken on board so their users can come to trust all the material featured as being well produced and cutting edge.

Singles: Full length 320kbps track singles.
EPs: Full length 320kbps track singles featuring all singles from one EP.
CD Singles: Audio CDs burnt from wav files featuring full length tracks from the single / EP you are purchasing.

Gogoyoko is a growing global platform for artists and labels to sell their music online. They launched in Iceland on the 10th of July 2009 and in the Nordic countries on 1st of October 2009. A UK and Canada launch is set for Q1 2010. They offer a free service platform where artists and labels can sell their music online, set the price for their music, get 100% of the sales profit, get extra revenue based on streaming and are provided with tools to promote their music and connect with fans. They are a digital music store with a strong focus on the social aspect and most importantly, their platform is free for all to sign up and start using it.

As a label you can sell your music through gogoyoko and decide on the price yourself, both for songs and complete albums. You and the artists will have your own store fronts and your music will be a part of the main music store. In a way, gogoyoko consists of two main sections;

a) a social network where artists, record labels, music professionals and music fans can create profiles, interact and contribute to the ever evolving music scene, and

b) a music store for artists and labels.

Thumbplay

The company has maintained and grown its leadership position in the industry by providing its consumers with the best possible customer experience, including live, “24/7/365″ bi-lingual customer service and a commitment to delivering the largest catalog of entertainment possible. Thumbplay’s “locker” service also allows users to
automatically back-up and store purchased items.

Headquartered in New York City, Thumbplay was founded in September 2004 by Are Traasdahl and Evan Schwartz. Investors include Bain Capital Ventures, SoftBank Capital, i-Hatch Ventures, Redwood
Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Meritech, Brookside Capital Partners and Cross Creek Capital.

IRIS is the leading digital distribution company dedicated to the successful marketing and promotion of prominent independent music and video catalogs.

Founded in 2003, IRIS provides a comprehensive suite of technical, marketing and legal services to independent record labels and physical distributors, helping them to navigate the emerging digital marketplace.

IRIS currently distributes a select group of top independent record labels including Big Dada, Burning Spear, Chemikal Underground, Duck Down Records, Gemini Sun, Ghostly International, K Records, Kemado, Kranky, Le Tigre, Megaforce, NinjaTune, Palmetto Records, Preservation Hall, Projekt, SCION and Subliminal to over 350 digital outlets. IRIS is based in San Francisco, California.

Tracks on sale with iTunes, Beatport, Traxsource? Great. Now you need to tell the world about it…

Media2Radio are the pioneers of radio marketing since 2003 with more than 1450 radio djs on more than 1050 radio stations who could be speaking to over 100 million people worldwide about all your online releases!

Radio spins in the USA, UK and throughout the World, on many ground-breaking music shows via the radio and club DJs on our extensive Media2Radio database, covering Dance, Urban, Rock, Chill Out and more. Media2Radio sends your media directly to the djs for their shows. Media2Radio are the best at what they do, with a combined experience of over 50 years in sending Music to Radio and radio DJs.

For more information about Media 2 Radio, contact Robin.

Counterpoint Systems, the leading provider of software solutions for rights management, royalty accounting and licensing agreements, has developed a new feature for its Record Maestro product that allows labels to export song data in a format directly compatible with FUGA, a leading digital music distribution platform.

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