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CD Baby and Audible Magic Team Up to Ensure Quality Partnership with Artists and Music Services

By: Apr. 16, 2019
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Artist service provider CD Baby is partnering with Audible Magic - the music industry's go-to expert in digital content identification, licensing, and monetization - to increase content protection for artists and labels. As part of the partnership, CD Baby will use Audible Magic's RightsRx™ service to identify content rights conflicts prior to delivery to a Digital Service Provider (DSP), ensuring that CD Baby remains a trusted distribution partner of digital platforms worldwide.

As streaming continues to grow exponentially, both companies are at the center of one of the music business's greatest opportunities and biggest challenges: How do distributors and artist service companies concurrently manage growing data volumes, comply with DSP requirements, and still provide the best service to musicians, all in a cost-effective manner?

"Audible Magic is an essential element that enables us to play our role in the music business," said CD Baby VP of Marketing Kevin Breuner. "Their powerful identification technology allows us to serve our artists - and the platforms and services they rely on - quickly and fairly."

When a user requests to upload files, RightsRx™ allows CD Baby to check Audible Magic's comprehensive registry of over 30 million media assets. RightsRx™ then indicates if the file is a duplicate of another audio track in the system, or if it is a potentially suspicious file. CD Baby can proactively decline to upload the file in question, rather than reactively taking it down at a later time due to a potentially costly rights conflict. In the vast majority of cases, however, files will upload seamlessly and be ready for distribution.

"CD Baby plays a vital role in the independent music community. We look forward to supporting their ongoing efforts to provide the highest quality of service to their artists and maintain strong relationships with the DSPs," said Vance Ikezoye, President and CEO at Audible Magic.

RightsRx™ is part of a bigger strategy at CD Baby to be the best partner possible to diverse music services and an even more diverse community of artists. This demands constant learning, extensive tech savvy, and real creativity.

"We're doing everything in our power to provide digital partners with data and assets that boost our artists. We want to create the best experience via these partnerships," said MJ Woodis, CD Baby's Director of Digital Operations who leads a 19-person team that addresses this challenge. "We work closely with DSPs, and it's often more of a conversation, not just rules laid down. The heart of the matter is not to restrict as we get them music and data, and to enable search and other discovery methods to help our artists. It's a growing process."

CD Baby is one of the largest distributors of independent music on the planet, home to 650,000 artists and more than 9 million tracks that are made available to 100+ digital services and platforms around the globe. Artists on the platform are empowered to monetize their rights while maintaining control of their own careers and have collectively earned over $600 million since the company's founding. CD Baby's Publishing Administration service allows over 160,000 songwriters to collect all of their publishing royalties and currently administers over 1 million songs.

For more than 20 years, Audible Magic has continuously created innovative, industry-leading solutions that protect digital media and accelerate its monetization. An Emmy-winning pioneer in proprietary content recognition solutions, its core identification platform performs billions of nearly instantaneous content match transactions every month. Audible Magic has become the trusted intermediary between the majority of rightsholders (music labels, distributors, publishers and collectives) and digital service providers (such as Facebook, SoundCloud, TikTok/Musical.ly, Dailymotion, Twitch, and Twitter), navigating the complexities of content identification, ownership determination, and rights administration.



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