“What Loudr has built is more than just a smart and easy way for artists to obtain mechanical licenses it’s true music industry innovation,” said Adam Parness, Global Head of Publishing, Spotify. In a statement, Spotify said: ‘Loudr will continue to provide services to its publishing and aggregator partners, while contributing to Spotify’s continued efforts towards a more transparent and efficient music publishing industry for songwriters and rights holders.’ The Loudr team of publishing specialists and technologists will join Spotify’s New York offices as part of the acquisition. “What Loudr has built is more than just a smart and easy way for artists to obtain mechanical licenses it’s true music industry innovation.” Until now, Loudr has typically worked with digital aggregators like CD Baby, SoundDrop and Zebralution – but now it’s bringing its tools to Spotify. One of those acquisitions was very much in Loudr’s wheelhouse: Sonalytic, which Spotify bought in March last year, built tech which it said could “identify individual songs, mixed content and short audio clips with unparalleled robustness and speed”. Loudr Loudr allows content creators, aggregators, and digital music services to identify, track, and pay royalties to music publishers. MBW revealed last year that Spotify spent over $120m on acquisitions in the three years to mid-2017. Spotify acquires Loudr on for an undisclosed amount. The clearance of mechanical licenses in the US, of course, has been a controversial area for Spotify to date – and is at the crux of the $1.6bn lawsuit it’s currently facing from Wixen. It does so via proprietary technology that automatically processes publishing metadata, and then matches sound recordings to compositions on behalf of publishers and songwriters.
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