Which music aggregator to use?

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14:00 Is the Album dead? Is

Singles - put out lots of content throughout the year

Albums - people save it in their favourites - baseline consumption

On social media put out single

Independent Monthly accounting vs biannual accounting of the majors

20:30 What is an aggregator - An online distributor

What is a good aggregator ?

21:50 How does a distributor differential itself ?

The right choice is dependent on the size of your company

Control vs efficiency

Key Deal points

- Payment structure - flat fee or commission

-DSP deals - itunes traxsource

-Deal term - 3 years or one year s

- Accounting frequency

- Digital delivery - for larger company that will use aggregator tech to go direct

- Analytics - display the number of streams or downloads

- Extra services - youtube contect id, soundcloud monisation, neighbouring revenues (ppl's job in the digital service provider)

- Account manager - what is their relationship like with apple or spotify. Where does my music need to be and reverse engineer

Small rights holder - routenote, CDbaby, tunecore (no marketing)

Medium Rights - aggregation deal ( room for growth)

Larger rights holder - look at store

Pre- rolling singles - how to keep listeners engaged - drop a single every 4 weeks

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