Rights & Royalties

Maximizing music revenue in the streaming era

The Streaming Gold Rush

Understanding and leveraging this trend to maximize revenue is crucial for you as a music industry executive to stay competitive.

October 3, 2023

The Rise Of Private-Label And White-Label Branding

Private-label and white-label branding strategies significantly impact profitability of licensors by reducing costs and increasing profits.

September 21, 2023

Singing A New Tune

Will user-centric royalties ring in a promising future for music creators? The explosive rise of music streaming has transformed the industry, with millions of subscribers ...

July 24, 2023

What is the Mechanical Licensing Collective or MLC

The Effective Collective

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) is all in on collecting and distributing digital music royalties The nonprofit Mechanical Licensing Collective was established by ...

October 18, 2021

Music Catalog Sales Are Yesterday’s News: 2006 News, to Be Precise

It wasn’t the landslide that brought Stevie Nicks down. It was the pandemic. There was no sailing through the changing ocean tides once every concert venue had evaporated. ...

April 19, 2021

Celebrity Licensing in A Pandemic

The Miley Cyrus Burrito with a Lady Gaga Cookie Chaser For celebrities, one casualty of the pandemic is their influence. While they’re catching up on their R&R, another...

February 4, 2021

YouTubers Are Making Millions Whispering and Eating on Camera

The Weird Royalties Series: Part One It turns out, you don’t need to be a charismatic podcast host like Joe Rogan or a Top 20 Billboard star like Adele to earn millions on ...

September 15, 2020

Why Siloed Solutions Won’t Win in the D2C Economy

How Rights holders with an integrated enterprise solution gain advantages on avails and business analysis We’re living in a time where a single Spotify download means break...

July 21, 2020

The Pandemic’s Impact on Streaming Trends

Surprise Winners, Losers and Pivots During the 2020 Lockdown In March, Nielsen was already reporting a 100% increase in streaming for Americans in the key 25-54 demographic...

July 7, 2020

Did Quibi Finally Quell Creator Rights Frustrations?

Rights and Royalties Deals Get a Facelift with Quibi For creators, what’s not to like about Quibi? When ownership is one of the greatest frictions for creators of entertain...

June 11, 2020

Lost Royalties from Book Piracy: Should Authors Fight Back

Lost Royalties from eBook Piracy: Should Authors Fight Back?

Authors, graphic novel creators, and publishers worldwide alternately feel helpless and frustrated to find that within days of their new eBooks’ releases, they are already ...

February 24, 2020

How Rights and Royalty Issues and Industry Conflicts Nearly Ended The Irishman's Oscar Destiny

We may never know the real story of how Netflix ended up with the rights to The Irishman, and frankly, the version I know is so convoluted, I’d bore you by retelling it her...

February 4, 2020

What’s a Chart-Topping Cassette Tape Really Worth in 2019?

Resurging Sales Say Old School Is Cool Again In one of the most famous scenes of Monty Python’s film The Holy Grail, the Black Knight is guarding a stream, refusing King...

October 17, 2019

FOMO Redefined: Will Streamer ‘Fear of Media Obliteration’ Force Demand for Physical Media?

In October of 2018, a well-publicized auction at Sotheby’s auction house became the unintended metaphor for the future of streaming entertainment. Street artist Banksy’s...

August 29, 2019

How to Monetize Music on Social Media and Capture Royalties Due

TikTok, Facebook’s Lasso, Facebook’s in-app service Lip Sync Live, Instagram Stories and German-based Mobile Motion GmbH’s Dubsmash are some of the sites where musicians...

August 13, 2019

Royalty Management: Why Google Stadia and Its Cloud-Based Videogaming Rivals Need a Robust Solution

While videogame graphics have evolved from 8-bit to 64-bit architecture, rights and royalties management software also had to level up to meet user demand. Today’s R...

August 12, 2019