Merchandise Economics
Why We Wrote This Guide In the age of digital streaming, maintaining a substantial inflow of cash can be difficult for artists at all levels. Today, »
Why We Wrote This Guide In the age of digital streaming, maintaining a substantial inflow of cash can be difficult for artists at all levels. Today, »
An IPI number is an identifier code that songwriters need to know. IPI is short for Interested Party Information and every songwriter should have one. When »
Why We Wrote This Guide Artists have multiple streams of income to keep track of and they all must be accounted for when doing taxes. The »
Why We Wrote This Guide With the rapid modernization and advancement in the music industry, there has been an influx in new ways for independent artists »
An Exploration Step-By-Step Guide From digital distributors and administrative representatives to more traditional industry players like record labels and music publishers, there is a head-spinning array »
In 2013, when Aaron Davis and Rene Meredith founded Exploration, they agreed their goals and services, as a technology startup in the entertainment industry, did not »
Although rarely brought up in casual conversation or mentioned in the news, the consent decrees imposed by the U.S. Department of Justice on ASCAP and »
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Why We Wrote This Guide Contracts are the primary tools that entities in the music industry use to enter into business relationships with one another. This »
Why We Wrote This Guide This guide serves as a logical continuation of our previous guide, the Digital Download [https://exploration.io/digital-downloads/]. In order to »
Why We Wrote This Guide This guide serves as a logical counterpart to our On-Demand Streaming [https://exploration.io/what-is-on-demand-streaming/] guide, which itself serves as a »
Table of Contents 360 Deal Administration Deal Advances Album Cycle A&R Department Artist Site Back Catalogue Black Box Blanket Licenses Bundled Services Business Manager »
The Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (MMA) was signed into law on October 11, 2018. The provisions of the MAA have overhauled several aspects »
Why We Wrote This Guide Over the last decade, the digital music industry has gained significant momentum. Many digital platforms—streaming services, downloads, digital media players, »
Why We Wrote This Guide Work for Hire agreements are a popular mode of contractual interaction between various people and entities in the music business. Due »
Why we wrote this guide With thousands of songs [https://exploration.io/what-is-a-composition/] being downloaded [https://exploration.io/digital-downloads/] and streamed across physical and digital mediums, »
Why we wrote this guide As consumers take advantage of technology to stream and download music across a growing assortment of applications, it has become harder »
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