Creative Industries News editor Emmanuel Legrand spotlighted Crunch Digital’s launch of the free beta version of TEMP0. In the story, he breaks down how the ground-breaking tool provides a one-click solution to many problems and frustrations commonly experienced by companies and services that have existing licensing deals in place with labels and music publishers. Check it out below or visit Creative Industries News.
Crunch Digital launches music publishing clearance and curation platform Tempo
Music rights management company Crunch Digital has launched its beta version of Tempo, a multi-dimensional sound recording curation and music publishing clearance platform.
Tempo is described as a tool that can “instantly confirm what music can be used under existing licenses with record labels and publishers.” Tempo beta version is now available for free in advance of Crunch Digital’s roll out of its commercial subscription-based service this fall.
“The arrival of Tempo is perfect timing for app developers, subscription music services, fitness companies, VR platforms, music supervisors, and other users of music who have never had a simple, fast, and efficient smart tool to support their business operations where music is used,” said the company.
Assess what music that can be used
Tempo’s system is powered by Crunch Digital’s music rights database of millions of titles, sourced directly from rights holders and administrators. “With Tempo, users can select the labels and publishers they have licenses with, curate and import playlists from streaming music services like Spotify, search for single titles or conduct a batch search, and then view which tracks are 100% available for use in one click,” explained the company.
“Music services, apps, fitness companies and karaoke companies, and other services which have licensed music are majorly frustrated because they are not well-equipped to assess what music they can actually use, nor have the ability to maximise the number of tracks available to them,” said Crunch Digital founder Keith Bernstein. “After listening to their needs, we innovated Tempo which directly solves these problems.”
Bernstein added that if used properly, Tempo can prevent the use of unlicensed music. “Tempo is built for today and tomorrow, and this platform is the first-of its kind and uniquely adaptable to the evolving marketplace to use music in ways we haven’t even heard of yet,” said Bernstein.
Crunch Digital will launch this fall the commercial subscription-based service in Basic, Premium, and Premium+ tiers, which offer multiple users per account, more track validations per month, expanded database access, weekly and monthly e-mail reports, content delivery integration with approved vendors, label and publisher reporting, and many additional features.
*Our very special thanks to Emmanuel Legrand for writing such a great story on TEMPO! Emmanuel is editor of Creative Industries News and a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specializing in the entertainment business and cultural trends.