The Exploration Podcast

https://feed.podbean.com/ExplorationGroup/feed.xml

337

Downloads

Episodes

Exploration is a digital rights administration company assisting copyright owners in compiling the information needed to get paid by the platforms that are obligated to pay them. We work with parties to maximize efficiency and profitability and are proud to enjoy great relationships with all.

Episodes

Friday Feb 11, 2022

Exploration Audio Newsletter - February 11, 2022

Friday Feb 11, 2022

A final settlement agreement has been set on a long-running legal dispute between the Radio Music Licensing Committee (RMLC) and Global Music Rights (GMR). In 2016, GMR filed a suit alleging unfair payment of songwriters. The RMLC represents the interests of around 10,000 commercial radio stations, and as of April 1, 2022, will have entered long-term licenses with GMR in order to settle the dispute.

The MLC seeks songwriter candidates to be considered for seats on its Board of Directors, Unclaimed Royalties Oversight Committee, and Dispute Resolution Committee. They must be professional songwriters who retain and license mechanical rights for songs they have written.

Amazon’s spending on video and music content in 2021 hit $13 billion, up around 18%, according to its annual SEC filing. The expenses include licensing and production costs as well as costs associated with digital subscriptions and sold or rented content

Subtítulos en Español!

Remember to ask any questions you have in the comments below, we're here to help!

Exploration: https://exploration.io/exploration-weekly-gmr-and-rmlc-settle-legal-dispute-the-mlc-seeking-songwriter-candidates-amazon-film-tv-and-music-content-spending-up-18/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/exploration...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/explorationio
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/expl...
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Exploration...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Exploration.io/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/helloexploration
PodBean: https://explorationgroup.podbean.com/

#GMR #RMLC #MLC #AmazonFilm #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly

Friday Feb 04, 2022

Exploration Audio Newsletter - February 4, 2022

Friday Feb 04, 2022

In the fourth quarter of 2021, YouTube sold $8.6 billion in ads, about 25% above the $6.9 billion that it sold in the final quarter of 2020. According to The Hollywood Reporter, this brings YouTube’s 2021 ad revenue haul to $28.8 billion (not including revenues from its subscription services like YouTube Music).

In the same quarter, Spotify’s global Premium Subscribers grew to 180 million, up by 5% from the prior quarter (Q3 2021), and up by 16% year-on-year. The streaming service’s Monthly Active User tally of 406 million was also near the top end of its guidance range, with much of its growth coming from India, Latin America, and Indonesia.

Lastly, SiriusXM posted its Q4 financial report this week as well, revealing that it added around 1.2 million net new self-pay subscribers, taking its total to 32 million - a record for the company. Pandora, on the other hand, saw a decline in its listeners to 52.3 million, but a 30% increase in its advertising revenues to $1.54 billion.

Exploration: https://exploration.io/exploration-weekly-youtube-sold-8-6-billion-in-ads-spotify-reaches-180-million-subscribers-in-2021-siriusxm-adds-record-1-2-million-subscribers/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/exploration.io/
Twitter: twitter.com/explorationio
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/exploration
YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/ExplorationGroup/featured
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Exploration.io/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/helloexploration
PodBean: explorationgroup.podbean.com/

#YouTubeAds #Spotify #SiriusXM #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly

Friday Jan 28, 2022

Exploration Audio Newsletter - January 28, 2022

Friday Jan 28, 2022

A new job ad spotted by Music Business Worldwide indicates that the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) is hiring a new Chief Copyright Royalty Judge to fill up the three-judge panel that conducts proceedings to determine songwriter streaming mechanical royalty rates between 2023 and 2027. Some qualifications include being an attorney in good standing with at least seven years’ legal experience and having at least five years in adjudication, arbitration, or court trials.

In an open letter published by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki to creators, Wojcicki writes that the number of YouTube channels around the world making more than $10,000 a year is up 40% year over year. She also adds that YouTube Shorts has now hit the milestone of 5 trillion all-time views, and Music and Premium subscribers have hit 50 million.

In the first fiscal quarter of 2022, Apple services has reported $19.5 billion in revenue with Apple as a whole raking in $123.9 billion in sales, beating Wall Street analysts’ expectations of $118.3 billion in revenue, according to Yahoo Finance. The Apple services category is the second top revenue driver and includes Apple TV+, Apple Music, the App Store, and iCloud.

Exploration: exploration.io/exploration-weekl…19-5b-in-revenue/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/exploration.io/
Twitter: twitter.com/explorationio
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/exploration
YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/ExplorationGroup/featured
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Exploration.io/
SoundCloud: @helloexploration
PodBean: explorationgroup.podbean.com/ up 40%, Apple hits record revenue, & more!

#YouTubeMusic #WesternDSP #CRBstreamingRoyaltyRate #YouTubeSmartDownloads #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly

Friday Jan 21, 2022

Exploration Audio Newsletter - January 21, 2022

Friday Jan 21, 2022

According to a recent Midia Research study, streaming subscriptions grew by 26.4% worldwide in Q2 2021. Additionally, although Spotify had the highest market share among streaming services with 31%, YouTube Music showed the highest growth in the West by more than 50% during the 2020-to-2021 Q2 period.

The CRB is expected to have new proposed streaming royalty rates by the end of this year, which will determine how much digital music services like Apple Music and Google must pay songwriters and music publishers for their work through 2027. The proposed rates for 2018 to 2022 are currently still under review by copyright judges after being overturned by the federal appeals court in August 2020.

YouTube is considering adding “smart downloads” to its youtube.com/new hub, where it will detect when users are connected to wi-fi and use that connection to download up to 20 recommended videos per week to their device. This feature is already available to Premium YouTube Music subscribers.

Exploration: exploration.io/exploration-weekl…-smart-downloads/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/exploration.io/
Twitter: twitter.com/explorationio
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/exploration
YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/ExplorationGroup/featured
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Exploration.io/
SoundCloud: @helloexploration
PodBean: explorationgroup.podbean.com/

#YouTubeMusic #WesternDSP #CRBstreamingRoyaltyRate #YouTubeSmartDownloads #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly

Friday Jan 14, 2022

Exploration Audio Newsletter - January 14, 2022

Friday Jan 14, 2022

Apple’s services division, which includes music, video, news, fitness, and cloud storage, hailed 745 million paid subscriptions in 2021. A few new features were also announced in the music department, such as lossless and spatial audio and lyrics sharing.

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court was skeptical in reinstating a $2.8 million copyright verdict against Katy Perry over her 2013 song “Dark Horse”. Rapper Flame alleged that the work infringed the copyright of his earlier track “Joyful Noise”. The three-judge panel is set to weigh the merits of the case and issue a ruling in the months ahead.

According to data published by GfK Entertainment and German Music Industry Association (BVMI), Germany reached 165 billion music streams in 2021, almost a fifth more than in 2020 (138 billion), over half more than in 2019 (108 billion streams), and twice as many as 2018 (80 billion streams).

Remember to ask any questions you have in the comments below, we're here to help!

Please subscribe to get the latest videos! www.youtube.com/c/ExplorationGrou…ub_...

Have any questions? Contact us at:
hello@exploration.io

https://exploration.io/exploration-we...

#Apple745Msubscriptions #DarkHorse #Germany165Bstreams #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly

Friday Jan 07, 2022

Exploration Audio Newsletter - January 7, 2022

Friday Jan 07, 2022

According to MRC Data’s 2021 year-end report, US on-demand audio streams are up 26.3% over 2020, and vinyl sales are up 51.4%, beating CD sales. In addition, catalog streams and sales account for more than 74% of music consumption during the year.

Early sound recordings from 1926 like Winnie-the-Pooh are now in the public domain in the United States, according to a full list of works published by Duke University this year. Approximately 400,000 early sound recordings have been included as part of the 2018 Music Modernization Act.

The 64th annual Grammy Awards are postponed amid the Omicron surge. The announcement was made by The Recording Academy on Wednesday January 5. The event was originally scheduled for January 31 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. It is expected to be postponed until spring, sources say.

Remember to ask any questions you have in the comments below, we're here to help!

Please subscribe to get the latest videos! www.youtube.com/c/ExplorationGrou…ub_confirmation=1

Have any questions? Contact us at:
hello@exploration.io

https://exploration.io/exploration-weekly-us-audio-on-demand-streams-up-26-3-and-vinyl-sales-up-51-4-winnie-the-pooh-enters-public-domain-grammys-2021-postponed/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/exploration.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/explorationio
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exploration
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ExplorationGroup/featured
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Exploration.io/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/helloexploration
PodBean: https://explorationgroup.podbean.com/

#USaudioOnDemandStreams #vinylsalesup #WinnieThePooh #GrammysPostponed #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly

Saturday Jan 01, 2022

Exploration Audio Newsletter - January 1, 2022

Saturday Jan 01, 2022

The FCC has recently approved investment entity GMEI to acquire up to 14.99% of the shares in American radio giant iHeart. Earlier this year, GMEI had already bought more than 5% of the company controlling approximately 6.6% of total equity and 8.7% of voting interests.

Taylor Swift is filing another dismissal of the song-theft lawsuit over the lyrics of “Shake It Off” before it ends up in front of a jury. Songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler accused Swift of ripping off their 2001 song “Playas Gon Play” in 2017. After a first dismissal, the duo brought it to the appeals court and the case is now sent back to court again for take two.

US and UK vinyl sales are continuing to grow, according to the BPI and MRC Data. In the US, fans have reportedly purchased 2.11 million vinyl albums during the seven days ending on December 23rd, the highest weekly total since at least 1991. And in the UK, domestic fans purchased over 5 million LPs in the year, marking an 8% improvement from 2020.

We are extremely grateful for your continued support this year. On behalf of the entire Exploration team, we wish you a warm and safe holiday season. Please reach out to us anytime at hello@exploration.io!

Remember to ask any questions you have in the comments below, we're here to help!

Please subscribe to get the latest videos! www.youtube.com/c/ExplorationGrou…ub_confirmation=1

Have any questions? Contact us at:
hello@exploration.io

Exploration:https://exploration.io/exploration-weekly-gmei-to-buy-up-to-14-99-of-iheart-taylor-swift-files-to-dismiss-shake-it-off-lawsuit-us-uk-vinyl-sales-hit-record-highs/

#GMEI #iHeart #TaylorSwift #ShakeitOff #USUKvinylsales #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly

Friday Dec 24, 2021

Exploration Audio Newsletter - December 24, 2021

Friday Dec 24, 2021

Ahora con subtítulos en Español!

SoundExchange’s royalties dispute with US television service Music Choice has been decided that the case will be referred to the Copyright Royalties Board (CRB) for further investigation, rather than being heard in Federal court. SoundExchange launched the lawsuit to recover underpaid royalties in April 2019.

YouTube creators now have the ability to appeal video monetization decisions on the Studio mobile app, a feature previously only available on desktop devices. To do so, they will have to navigate to ‘Content’, tap the yellow ‘$‘ icon, and then select ‘Request Review’.

Independent publishers grew their share of the global music publishing market from 27% in 2019 to 28% in 2020, states a report by the industry body IMPF. This suggests that indies have around $1.92 billion of the estimated $6.8 billion global publishing market in 2020.

Remember to ask any questions you have in the comments below, we're here to help!

Have any questions? Contact us at:
hello@exploration.io

Exploration: https://exploration.io/exploration-we...

SoundExchange #CRB #YTcreators #Indies #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly

Friday Dec 17, 2021

Exploration Audio Newsletter - December 17, 2021

Friday Dec 17, 2021

Austria is set to pass a law as part of the European Copyright Directive that creates a limited exception for clips of less than 15 seconds shared on online platforms and offers uploaders to declare that their material does not infringe copyright when used as a parody or pastiche. A similar law was passed in Germany. Eight other countries including France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands have so far implemented the directive.

In a recent “Year on TikTok 2021 Music Report,” the ByteDance-owned video platform announced that approximately 430 songs surpassed 1 billion video views in 2021, which was three times more than in 2020. Latin music was the fastest-growing genre on the platform in the US, and Hip-hop/rap was the most popular genre amongst its users in 2021, according to the report.

YouTube released its latest Creator Insider video, stating that it is currently testing a feature called Collections that will allow users to sort the creators and channels they’re subscribed to into specific categories. The Subscriptions Feed currently lists out videos in chronological order from every subscribed creator. Collections will let users create categories and sort channels into them.

Have any questions? Contact us at:
hello@exploration.io

Exploration: https://exploration.io/exploration-weekly-austria-proposes-copyright-law-tiktok-triples-songs-reaching-billion-view-mark-in-2021-youtube-organizes-subscriptions-feed/

#AustriaCopyrightLaw #TikTokBillionViews #YouTubeSubscriptionFeed #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly

Friday Dec 10, 2021

Exploration Audio Newsletter - December 10, 2021

Friday Dec 10, 2021

CRB posts the latest royalty hike for 2022, UK streaming bill debate scheduled, TikTok reveals the “Creator Next” monetization portal, and a whole lot more!

Remember to ask any questions you have in the comments below, we're here to help!

Have any questions? Contact us at:
hello@exploration.io

Exploration: https://exploration.io/exploration-we...

#BrennanBill #GlobalAdvertising #IndieLabel #MusicIndustryNews #ExplorationWeekly