We are excited to announce our latest DSP Integration with ClicknClear, an innovative music licensing and tech startup that specializes in delivering officially licensed music to performance sports worldwide. With this partnership, we are expanding our platform’s capabilities to offer our clients access to a vast collection of high-quality music tracks that are licensed for use in sporting events.

ClicknClear has made a name for itself in the music industry by developing a one-stop online marketplace where users can easily license all the great original music they want with all the rights they need to use in their sports mix alongside performances. The company has achieved this by partnering with rightsholders, music publishers, and record labels worldwide to ensure that their clients have access to a broad range of musical genres and styles.

By integrating ClicknClear into our platform, we are providing our clients with a seamless way to access and license music tracks that are appropriate for their sporting events. This will enable our clients to create engaging and entertaining sporting events that will keep their audiences hooked.

One of the key benefits of using ClicknClear is the ease with which you can license music. The platform offers an intuitive search and licensing process that allows users to find the music they need in seconds. Once you have found the music you want, the platform’s licensing process is straightforward, ensuring that you can use the music in your sporting event without worrying about licensing issues.

Another significant benefit of using ClicknClear is the quality of the music tracks on offer. All the tracks on the platform are officially licensed, meaning that they are of high quality and suitable for use in professional sporting events. Additionally, the platform offers a wide range of musical genres and styles, ensuring that there is something for everyone.

In conclusion, our latest DSP Integration with ClicknClear is an exciting development that expands our platform’s capabilities to offer our clients a wide range of high-quality music tracks that are licensed for use in sporting events. With ClicknClear, our clients can create engaging and entertaining sporting events that will keep their audiences hooked. We are thrilled to offer our clients access to this innovative platform and look forward to seeing the creative ways in which they will use it to enhance their sporting events.

We are thrilled to unveil our first DSP Integration of 2023: Peloton. As a leader in home fitness equipment and online services, Peloton offers a wide range of health and wellness content, including fitness classes, through a paid subscription. Users can access this content on a streaming or on-demand basis, and it is curated by Peloton’s music supervisors and fitness instructors who select tracks from a programming library to add to the Peloton Content. While users can access specific pieces of Peloton Content, they cannot rewind or skip within the content or choose to play a specific track outside of the Peloton Content. However, Peloton does make a list of music featured in a piece of Content available to users.

Peloton offers two types of subscriptions to users: the Hardware Subscription, which is accessible through Peloton’s home fitness equipment, and the Digital Subscription, which is accessible through a mobile application.

We are excited to announce our latest DSP Integration: Adaptr / Feed.fm

Adaptr connects you with the newest startups and apps looking for quality music to enhance their customer experience. Adaptr’s all-in-one music solution provides businesses with the licensing, compliance, and robust SDKs they need to stream music legally.

Adaptr is the provider of an existing service called Feed.fm which provides non-interactive music services using the US statutory license in areas such as fitness, retail and gaming.

Feed.fm is a company that specializes in providing music streaming services for businesses. With a focus on custom playlist creation, licensing, and integration, Feed.fm has become a leader in the industry, helping businesses of all sizes and industries enhance their customer experience with the power of music.

One of the standout features of Feed.fm is its extensive library of music. The company has partnerships with thousands of record labels and music publishers, which allows it to offer a wide variety of genres and styles. This ensures that businesses can find the perfect music for their brand, no matter what their tastes are.

In addition to its musical expertise, Feed.fm is known for its commitment to excellence in customer service. The company’s team is dedicated to providing support and guidance to clients throughout the entire process, from initial consultation to implementation and beyond. This commitment has helped Feed.fm build strong, long-term relationships with its clients.

The story of Feed.fm’s founding is one of innovation and determination. The company was started by two music industry veterans who recognized the potential of using music to enhance the customer experience. They spent years developing their technology and building partnerships, and in 2011 they launched Feed.fm with a mission to help businesses create the perfect soundtrack for their customers.

We recently had an insightful conversation with someone working at Spotify. We asked him the question; how many songs you should release as an artist? 

We got some inside information from someone working at Spotify on how many songs you should release. The person with whom we spoke is curating one of the most extensive Dance playlists on Spotify. If you want to succeed as an artist on Spotify, you need to know everything about the algorithm. Spotify uses a sophisticated algorithm to choose which songs would be allegeable for curated playlists or not.  

When you do not have a ton of releases or a big following on Spotify, the algorithm wouldn’t push your music to a bigger audience. However, you can work on the number of releases you put out. That’s what the algorithm actually favours, constant releases. So when you do not have a big following consistency is key.  The more frequently you release new material, the more reasons there will be for fans to go there and listen to your music. Together with having the right marketing plan with enough run-time to get the most out of your marketing efforts.

Some key numbers

When you’re just starting out, do six to eight releases per year. This is quite a reasonable amount of releases for you to achieve and will show some consistency. Doing 12 releases a year when you are starting out is just not a feasible number. It’s too much for you to produce high-quality songs and promote them properly. So that will mean a release every one and a half months to 2 months. 

Depending on the music you make there are some key points to take into account. If you make more pop music or music with more vocals it is a good idea to release less music trough out the year and focus on doing a proper marketing campaign. Around 6 releases a year would then be a sweet spot. When you make more underground music or instrumental music you should be aiming for at least eight and maybe consider doing two to four remixes. 

Albums are dead

We also asked him about releasing albums to the streaming service and he has a clear answer to that, no just don’t do it! It doesn’t make any sense nowadays. The only reason to release an album as an artist is if you want to have this creative journey and share that with your fans. If you want to have a piece of work that is a collective of songs that reflect a certain point and time in your life and share this with your fans. But only consider it when you already have a big and tight-knit fanbase. If you still want to do it you should release four or five songs of the album as a single throughout the year to have the desired outcome and reach. 

You could consider selling the album when the first single releases as merch or as a digital download for super-fans. This way you’ll make a lot more money from the music you made. After a year you just release it as an album or as singles so you have the right amount of content for your fans to be growing on Spotify. 

The most important thing to keep in mind is what feels good for you and makes you satisfied. If a song is not ready, don’t release it. There’s no sense in pushing a song without having something that is good enough. 

Our last quick tip for promoting your songs on Spotify playlists is; Try to reach out to Spotify if you know someone there; it’s like gold; it’s worth a ton! It’s really hard to reach these people because everyone wants to be on this playlist; even the big guys are begging for playlist spots. Attend networking events and conferences like ADE to meet the people behind the streaming platforms and get your name out there.

Create your own playlist and trade spots with other artists. Organically grow your playlist, make sure your fans follow it and maybe consider gate the link. So when you release some free music people need to follow your account or playlist on Spotify.

The rest is then completely up to chance; maybe someone at Spotify likes your song or maybe the algorithm likes your song and features it. You could also have a huge hit by just releasing one song once a year. Everything is possible, but these are the recommendations of someone who knows how the algorithm works.

 Have fun creating awesome music and don’t forget to submit your demo to us so we can help you get your music heard!

After the invention of ‘TikTok Music’ emblems and several other TikTok Music Twitter accounts earlier this 12 months, it’s hardly a secret that ByteDance is engaged in a brand new DSP. A brand new report from TechCrunch reveals which might be new references to TikTok Music contained in the Resso streaming app, which is one other provided by ByteDance.

In response to a snippet of code found, personal knowledge could sync between Resso and TikTok Music. Additionally referenced within the code is the URL ‘music.tiktok.com,’ which at present results in a 403 (Forbidden) error for US customers. Nevertheless, TechCrunch reports that the area seems to be lively for areas like Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Spotify continues to revamp and innovate at warp speed, The latest updates involve its home screen, a new concert ticket pre-sale program and live collaboration within its Soundtrap recording studio app.

New Home Feeds

Spotify’s new home screen separates Music and Podcasts into two separate algorithmically driven feeds.

The Music feed offers quick access to suggested music, including album and playlist recommendations, along with buttons to share, like, and play music. The Podcast feed highlights new episodes of favourite shows and personalized recommendations.

It’s all currently rolling out on Android and will soon be available on iOS.

Spotify Ticket Pre-Sales

Potentially much more consequential is Spotify’s move into concert ticket presales and the quiet launch of tickets.spotify.com/.

It’s a strangely timed move for Spotify.

Just weeks ago, the streamer announced direct ticketing deals with Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, and See Tickets alongside a new Live Events Feed. Now instead of promoting its new partners, it is trying to compete with them.

Spotify’s initial ticket pre-sale offering is heavy on emerging artists like Bandsintown Big Break artist Annie DeRusso, but some artists approached by Spotify to participate tell Hypebot that the streamer is planning a much broader offering.

Live Collaboration via Soundtrap

Spotify’s third innovation this week comes from its Soundtrap recording app.

The online digital audio workstation (DAW) now offers a live collaboration feature that lets multiple people make and see changes to a track n real-time.

Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot and MusicThinkTank and serves as a Senior Advisor to Bandsintown which acquired both publications in 2019. He is the Founder and President of the Skyline Artists Agency and a professor for the Berklee College Of Music.

According to information sent to NOXU Music Group, several customers and artists are reportedly experiencing “blocked” notifications on Facebook and Instagram videos.

These messages result from a modification to how Meta handles reference matching internally. They deal with copyright management enforcement in regions where the Audio Library is not yet accessible:

Netherlands Antilles (AN), Angola (AO), Antartica (AQ), Åland Islands (AX), Azerbaijan (AZ), Bahrain (BH), Burundi (BI), Benin (BJ), Saint Barthélemy (BL), Brunei (BN), Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (BQ), Bhutan (BT), Bouvet Island (BV), Botswana (BW), Belarus (BY), Democratic Republic of the Congo (CD), Central African Republic (CF), Republic of the Congo (CG), Côte d’Ivoire (CI), China (CN), Cuba (CU), Djibouti (DJ), Western Sahara (EH), Eritrea (ER), Ethiopia (ET), Faroe Islands (FO), Georgia (GA), Greenland (GL), The Gambia (GM), Equatorial Guinea (GQ), Greece (GR), Guinea-Bissau (GW), Haiti (HT), Hungary (HU), British Indian Ocean Territory (IO), Iran (IR), Comoros (KM), North Korea (KP), Liberia (LR), Moldova (MD), Saint Martin (MF), Madagascar (MG), Marshall Islands (MH), Myanmar (MM), Mauritania (MR), Mauritius (MU), Maldives (MV), Mozambique (MZ), New Caledonia (NC), Niger (NE), French Polynesia (PF), Papua New Guinea (PG), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (PM), Pitcairn Islands (PN), Sudan (SD), Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (SH), Slovenia (SI), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (SJ), Sierra Leone (SL), Somalia (SO), South Sudan (SS), São Tomé and Príncipe (ST), Syria (SY), Chad (TD), French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TF), Togo (TG), Timor-Leste (TL), East Timor (TP), United States Minor Outlying Islands (UM), British Virgin Islands (VG), Wallis and Futuna (WF).

This situation is not specific to NOXU Music Group’s services; it affects all distributors and rights holders that use Facebook/Instagram.

We can attest that the material is still accessible through the Facebook/Instagram Audio Library and is merely muted in the regions mentioned above. Asset availability shouldn’t have altered, and most situations don’t call for user intervention.

Both that this shouldn’t harm income and that going forward, these alerts would happen less frequently, be more pertinent, and be more location-specific for the user have been confirmed by Meta.

What Do You Need to Do?

Most of the time, nothing has to be done. In order to avoid receiving these banned notifications, whitelisting is not required.

Please click the “appeal” button on the notification if there is a need or want to make your content accessible in the impacted markets and you have permission to publish everything in the video. Please be aware that appeals are handled content-by-content.

The process to restore that particular content will begin when you select “appeal,” but the asset will not yet be usable in the relevant territories’ Audio Library. You can submit all necessary appeals with no repercussions if you have authority to make the flagged content available.

Based on the information now available to us, it is apparent that Yandex is a sanctioned entity. Unfortunately, this means we are under an obligation to suspend deliveries with immediate effect.

Please note that at this stage, based on the advice we have received we do not believe that we are required to take down content previously delivered to Yandex. However, this point is under review and we will update our labels should the position change. 

We appreciate that you may have further questions in regards to royalty payments, however, no more information is available at this time. Please rest assured that we are working closely with our partners and representatives to protect our labels’ interests.