rightsHUB Integrates with Leading Music Recognition Tech Companies
- Newly-integrated companies include Gracenote, DJ Monitor, Soundmouse, BMAT, Yacast and Jaxsta
- rightsHUB users can register directly from a single upload
- Pre-release delivery of data to MRTs enables timely and comprehensive identification and royalty distribution
Music rights data and asset management platform rightsHUB has integrated data delivery feeds with five leading music recognition technology (MRT) companies to enable its users to register songs with MRTs in a single upload.
The integration of Gracenote, DJ Monitor, BMAT, Soundmouse and Yacast into the first stages of the metadata supply chain sees rightsHUB delivering a key part of the toolkit to tackle issues around mismatched metadata and royalty payments. Having the ability to easily register songs with MRTs prior to release will mean that rights holders are supplying accurate and rich metadata to their partners early on; thus assisting PROs and CMOs in reporting.
rightsHUB have also integrated with Jaxsta, a music company using technology to develop the world’s most comprehensive resource of official music credits. This partnership will help ensure rightsHUB user's repertoire is properly accredited, wherever it is listened to and enjoyed.
Yuri Dokter, CEO & Founder, DJ Monitor highlighted the quality, completeness and timeliness of reporting when it comes to the benefits of having MRTs integrated into the first stages of the metadata delivery chain: “The better the quality of metadata attached, the greater the chance that usages of works/recordings can be identified and matched to the correct rights holders by the CMOs. By submitting content to DJ Monitor through rightsHUB rights holders’ content will be registered at a high-trust level. High-trust level data ensures acceptance by CMOs, ensuring exploitation is accurately reported and revenues flow correctly.”
Joel Stoner, Label Partnerships Manager, Soundmouse added “Delivering accurate, complete and error-free data is paramount in today’s royalty reporting landscape, which is increasingly driven by MRTs. rightsHub enables rights owners to manage their data in a single place so it can be delivered to Soundmouse efficiency”.
rightsHUB CEO Lee Morrison highlighted that the common practice of not sending data to MRTs until release date or even after is far from ideal when it comes to earning more revenue in the long term.
He said, “It’s vital that rights holders take responsibility for registering their rights with MRT companies in the same way as they do with their distributors, CMOs and PROs. With the correct data, revenue can flow to the rightsholder as it should. We have to give the MRT companies the data as early as possible into the promotional cycle so that performance can be identified.
“By offering this service for free to clients we hope rights holders will earn more revenue in the long term. In the past, this has not been possible for rights holders directly, due to them not having the technical capability. With rightsHUB, data can be delivered to all B2B partners at the touch of a button, reducing the need for multiple manual data delivery points”.
About rightsHUB
rightsHUB saves music rights-holders time and money by providing a one-stop solution for managing their rights data and assets in a clear, easy and concise way. Within the cloud-based platform, users are able to securely store, track and send all assets relevant to release. This includes key contractual information, tracks, music videos, stems, works, composer info, publisher info and partner contact details.
Built by music people, for music people rightsHUB helps streamline your day-to-day rights workflow, and is constantly developing more features to excel this. Recently integrated features include Contract generation and delivery, Playlists (internal playlist curation with the ability to tag and deliver to partners), and PAGES (bespoke PAGE for your release, asset or playlist which can be sent to mailing lists or singular contacts, with full control over what can be viewed and for how long).
Users only need to upload their catalogue once before delivering to rightsHUB’s growing network of B2B partners, including Sentric, Believe, Label Worx , Above Board, Curve Royalty Reporting & FUGA thereby reducing the need for double data entry and the likelihood of manual mistakes.
With rightsHUB all data and rights remain the property of users and can be exported from the platform at any point.