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SoundVault is a music licensing platform specifically focused at servicing the media production industry and the composers that underpin it. Our unique approach simplifies the purchasing and licensing process of production music. For professional composers and music libraries SoundVault is an excellent environment to promote, manage, license and distribute your music, giving you complete control,
via your own unique library on the SoundVault platform. Benefits include:
No charges or submission fees, just pure free promotion of your music
Retain 100% copyright ownership
Completely non-exclusive deal
Straightforward revenue share on synchronisation fees – there are no other charges
Simple track upload mechanism
Edit existing tracks at any time
Monitor tracks used, streamed, and licensed
Market your unique library or individual tracks via SoundVault banner link, placed in websites and emails
Add and remove company users and permissions
Receive detailed music usage records and automated self-billing invoicing
A totally secure environment for your music files
Benefits for media producers:
Flexible licensing options:
Track by track licensing
Programme licensing
Bulk credit licensing for broadcasters
Immediate licensing and download of broadcast quality music
Automated cue sheet creation, auditing, reporting, and billing modules – designed to simplify the production process
Straightforward licensing upgrades
Fast and reliable search facilities with over 5,500 genres, keyword helpers, and musical attribute filters
Full management tools to add and remove company users and permissions
Create and share playlists for active and completed productions
Further information is available at www.SoundVault.tv
Music library agreement
Attached is a copy of the “Music Library Agreement” which forms the non-exclusive contractual agreement between yourself and SoundVault (acting as an agent on your behalf). This agreement is completed online as part of the two-stage registration process. Register for a library on SoundVault
Stage 1
Click on the “Sign up” link (found at the top right-hand corner of the site)
Once you have completed the form click on the “Sign up” button
Your unique website access details will be emailed to you once we have processed your registration. Stage 2
Use your access details to login to the site
You will be presented with the Music Library Agreement. Please review this and complete the acceptance form
Once you have completed the acceptance form your account will be fully activated, and you will be able to upload your tracks using our simple three step Track Import System.
Our Non-Exec Director Will Page knows a thing or 3 about the global entertainment industry.
Will Page, Chief Economist at Spotify from 2012 to 2019, talks to Chartmetric about digital disruption and music economics on this episode of How Music Charts.
"Music is the universal language. When used correctly, it resonates like nothing else can." 🎶
The history of the form, and where we go next
Brands Seeking
‘Comfort Food’
Songs for Ad
Synchs During
Pandemic
BY MELINDA NEWMAN
As the severity of the coronavirus became apparent, Madison
Avenue reacted swiftly. Commercials with hard sells were out,
while soft sells with uplifting messages were
in. Song publishers quickly pivoted to meet
the musical needs of their clients’ changing
messages.
“The shift happened pretty quickly,” says
Brian Monaco, Sony/ATV Music Publishing’s president/global chief marketing
officer. Brands began looking for “songs of
hope, unity, togetherness.”
They also began looking for deals. With
some brands asking for free usages, publishers are having to exercise extra scrutiny.
“We have been overwhelmed by brands
looking for gratis uses of songs from our catalog, so we do a lot of research to make sure
the use is related to COVID-19 and hopefully
raising money for people on the front lines
of the pandemic rather than their trying to
sell their product or use COVID-19 to sell
their services,” Monaco says. “We’ve been
reviewing all of them on a case-by-case basis
and when we — the publisher and writer/
artist — agree to gratis, we often try to agree
to no more than a three-month term.”
Regardless of the price point, the briefs
“tended to lean more heavily on what I
think of as [musical] comfort food,” agrees
BMG senior vp of creative synch Jonathan
Palmer, who placed Andra Day’s “Rise Up”
in an Amazon spot, as well as Black Eyed
Peas’ “One Tribe” for Facebook’s new Messenger Desk Top. “Themes of warmth and
togetherness and confidence and making it
through” the pandemic are popular, he says.
Within days of people sheltering in place,
Walmart rolled out ads featuring essential
workers singing Bill Withers’ “Lean on
Me,” as well as the company’s CEO heralding the employees as David Bowie’s
“Heroes” played in the background. Both
songs are part of Universal Music Publishing Group’s catalog. (UMPG represents
“Heroes” co-writer Brian Eno, while Sony/
ATV represents Bowie’s share of the song).
While much of the landscape is dominated with commercials featuring seemingly interchangeable, solemn piano-based
instrumentals with soothing narration — so
much so that there’s a YouTube supercut
highlighting the similar ads — many advertisers want songs that stand out instead of
blend in. “Brands want to pass on messages
of hope and optimism,” says Tom Eaton,
UMPG’s senior vp of advertising and TV
music. “Recognizable songs can immediately create that emotion in the viewers. Music
can be used as a shorthand and brands are
looking for that right now.”
Few songs are as recognizable as those by
The Beatles and Sony/ATV saw multiple requests for Fab Four tunes, including “All You
Need Is Love,” an acoustic cover of which
began airing on a Facebook Portal ad in late
April. The deal was closed on a Wednesday
and the spot started airing the following
Monday. “We’re seeing the ads completed
in a faster fashion,” Monaco says. “There’s
an urgency, plus there are no shoots,” which
means ad agencies are building spots around
existing stock, news footage or newly computer generated images.
Even with songs with lyrics, advertisers are often looking for a softer tone. For
a Samsung ad using Marc Scibilia’s “How
Bad We Need Each Other,” the brand opted
for the stripped-down demo for the 2016
tune instead of the much poppier, slicker
finished version, Monaco says. T-Mobile
used an acoustic instrumental bed of Muse’s
“Something Human,” according to Warner
Chappell’s senior vp, synch and creative
services Keith D’Arcy.
Pricing has also become a major talking
point, including many companies asking publishers to reduce or totally waive
licensing fees given the extraordinary times.
“Brands and agencies are having to find a
budget to put together a brand-new and
unexpected message due to our current
circumstances. However, musically speaking
they tend to want or need songs that appeal
to the widest audience and those tend to be
well-known songs that command high fees,”
says Julie Hurwitz, Kobalt Music’s co-head
of synch and brand partnerships. “As a
publisher, I want to do deals on behalf of my
writers but also don’t want to undervalue
their copyrights, so that’s been an interesting negotiation.” She adds that to get around
the lack of ability to shoot, agencies and
brands have asked to renew licenses from
previously run commercials, “in order to rerun these campaigns.”
Certain brands, mainly those involving
tourism, entertainment and sports events,
are shelving ads for now, while brands that
connect people, such as telecommunications
companies and Facebook, are strong, Eaton
says.
Business is holding relatively steady
despite the pullback by some companies because “a lot of the big brands understand the
worth of long-term brand building and how
to engage their customers, so they’re not going away,” Monaco says. “It really just feels
like business as usual, but with this shift in
types of songs that people are asking for,”
agrees Tom Foster, UMPG’s London-based
European head of film and TV.
Publishers are already anticipating the
needs for brands when the country turns
the corner on the pandemic. “Hopefully, at
some point down the road when we get into
the next phase where people can start to go
outside more and there’s a light at the end
of the tunnel, I predict there will be a new
round of messaging, about cautiously celebrating,” Hurwitz says. “The team and I are
in the process now of anticipating the need
for those types of songs. Who knows when
that will be. At some point, people are going
to be able to share a beer together or go on
vacation on an airplane or visit relatives at
Thanksgiving again, so brands are going to
be re-messaging again.”
Assistance preparing this story provided
by Steve Knopper and Chris Eggertsen.
https://static.billboard.com/files/2020/05/may-13-2020-billboard-bulletin-1589403086.pdf
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Little Black Book, BMGPM’s Thomas Cottrell and Daisy Foster join clinical psychologist Dr Lucy Viney to explore the intrinsic link between music and emotion
Great Times for creativity
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New music is no longer a thing, thanks to a pair of lawyers who created an algorithm to write every single musical melody that can possibly exist. Rather t
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Burt Bacharach received the prestigious Icon Award at the Guild of Music Supervisors 10th Annual Awards ceremony in Los Angeles last night.
🎶 what are your favourite syncs of the decade?
Music supervisors talk us through the unforgettable music-led moments in movies and television that stood out for them over the past decade.
We don’t need this shocking behaviour from music licensing companies or broadcasters. Our friends, the songwriters getting short changed again - it’s not a new model we condone and this kind of underhand disruption isn’t right. Culture and Art needs paying for.
Epidemic ( maybe a dirty word ) and Discovery (time or play nice )
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/having-turned-over-27m-in-2018-epidemic-sound-is-roasted-by-songwriter-group-for-its-buy-out-deals/
Epidemic responds by suggesting traditional industry is bothered by its "disruptive" model
🎶 Sound ON! Terry Datsun unleashes a soulful indie rock track tinged with a 70s surf feel! 🎧 available to license now! www.soundvault.tv
Tags: Vintage, brooding, hopeful, warm, wavering
For fans of: Michael Kiwanuka, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
This is not good
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Shows on the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, HGTV and Food Network may sound very different in the coming months. That’s because Discovery Networks, which owns those and other cable channel…
🎶 Sound ON! Indie folk pop featuring warm male vocals, acoustic guitar and perky whistling in Day of My Escape by Chris Hurn. 🎧 available to license now! www.soundvault.tv
Tags: Dreamy, acoustic, hopeful, melodic, warm
Influenced by: Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen
🎧 Looking for a dark edgy sound? Listen to this! from Exoheart with “Turn out the Light” 🎶 available to license now! www.soundvault.tv
Tags: Sinister, electronic, rebellious, edgy, driving, creepy, dark
For fans of: Billie Eilish & Lorde
Introducing Stefano Fucili and his atmospheric rock pop track “Angels 2 U” 🎶 available to license now! www.soundvault.tv
Tags: Ambient, uplifting, hopeful, guitar, building, instrumental
For fans of: Coldplay and U2
Electro pop trio NAVET have been described as the Swedish equivalent of pop giants CHVRCHES. Pure, melodic vocals blend beautifully with percussive beats 🎧 available to license now! www.soundvault.tv
Tags: sparkling, upbeat, positive, spacious, electronic, melodic
For fans of: CHVRCHES, Robyn, Ellie Goulding
Serbia’s leading trance producer Vintage & Morelli unleashes a deep, uplifting style that evokes nostalgia 🎧 available to license now! www.soundvault.tv
Tags: positive, progressive, warm, driving, deep, mysterious
For fans of: Robert Miles, Paul Oakenfold and Above & Beyond
Looking for darkwave inspired electronica? Check out Jaani Peuhu and the epic collection of tracks from the album Tear Catcher 🎧 available to license now! www.soundvault.tv
Tags: uplifting, energetic, retro, pop, synth, emotive
For fans of: Bjork, Nine Inch Nails, The Rasmus
Mixing upbeat percussive grooves with retro sounds and playful melodies we introduce Unstoppable from Nick Faber.
Available to license from SoundVault now!
Looking for infectiously catchy melodies, a driving groove and playful keys? Check out Ace of Base's awesome tracks available for licensing on SoundVault! https://bit.ly/2qr6Fdt
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SoundVault sync licenses 30 original tracks to this cool VR game on Sony PS4.......sustainable fishing with the Radio on !!!
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/catch-and-release-ps4/
Catch & Release places you on a beautiful mountain lake and lets you freely explore and row around while you choose your fishing spots. Beautiful, relaxed experience.
Online music rights management company SoundVault has joined Bitfury Surround as its first strategic partner. Bitfury Surround is the music entertainment division of blockchain and fintech company Bitfury Group. The firm’s first initiative will be to create an open-source music platform secured by...
SoundVault’s CCO Nathan Graves and Bitfury Surround partner Stefan Schulz on the panel discussing ‘Blockchain For Music - What is it Good For?’ at Reeperbahn yesterday
Our Bitfury Surround partner Stefan Schulz on today’s panel with Blockchain specialist Phu Styles
We are at the Reeperbahn Festival so say hello if you are about.
Blockchain – is it just another buzzword or the solution to many of the issues facing the music industry today? In this panel, we will explore real-world applications of this technology. Stefan Schulz, CEO and ...
We are proud to partner with Bitfury Surround and look forward to working together to make the
SoundVault’s rights management platform will exclusively integrate into the open Surround blockchain ecosystem.
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SoundVault is part of this Crucial movement
https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/uk-music-industry-declares-climate-and-ecological-emergency/076773
Signatories include Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, the Association Of Independent Music (AIM), Beggars Group, Radiohead and Festival Republic.
We ❤️ this season of Stranger Things which once again delivered a superb storyline, nostalgic pop culture moments and brimming with 80s music excellence. **Spoilers Alert**
Gaten Matarazzo's breakout scene stems from the young actor's Broadway background.
Worth a read! Explore how Big Little Lies executive producer Jean-Marc Vallée uses music as an insight to the character's lives and minds
Executive producer Jean-Marc Vallée and music supervisor Simon Astall explain how the soundtrack takes us into the character's minds.
Showcasing and Talent at Midem, Cannes, France. A global presence with international deals.
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"...a lot of artists don’t even know they should care about metadata, or that possible metadata issues could be affecting their paychecks."
It might seem like a tedious task but getting your tracks' metadata up to scratch is vitally important! 🎶😁
It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians
Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir went the extra mile for her score for Chernobyl... 🎶 🎥
In a recent interview, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, who composed the score for the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, revealed how the score came together.
GoT fans! What did you think of the music used for the epic build up in The Long Night? We loved Ramin Djawadi's theme!
SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading unless you’ve seen “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Episode 3, titled “The Long Night.” “Game of Thrones” fans waited seven and a half seasons for the full …
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