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🎵 A2IM (American Association of Independent Music) Indie Week is well underway, and Conor Cox 🤘 and Tom Harington have been busy celebrating the 30th anniversary of Hopeless Records, catching up on the latest developments in royalty tech and calculators, and making tons of new connections. 🔁 Say hi if you see them around the Big Apple! 🍎

Pumped to be in NYC for A2IM (American Association of Independent Music) Indie Week 🗽 We’re here to celebrate one of our favourite customers - Hopeless Records, alongside the rest of the A2iM membership. Hopeless was the soundtrack of my childhood - very cool to be supporting them and their rights holders in their 30th year! Also looking forward to the AIMP Publisher Summit - tonnes of new developments to learn about and insights to soak in. We’ve been digging in with royalty calcs and have some exciting new developments coming to market this month. If you’re around and want to chat about helping rights holders get paid - let’s connect! I’ll be in town until Friday 🤘

Can’t wait for A2IM (American Association of Independent Music)'s Indie Week. Looking forward to connecting with everyone and finally meeting in person. Lots of hands to shake, hi-fives to give, coffee to drink. See yah soon. #A2IMIndieWeek #MusicNetworking #IndieMusicCommunity #Trolley

Did you know that in 2023, fraudulent streams could have totaled somewhere between $41 and 410 billion globally? 😮 As outlined in SoundCloud’s Rockonomics, fraudsters use 3 main tactics: 🔴 Click farming (artificial streaming) 🔴 Carbon copying (ghosting tracks) 🔴 Account hacking (unauthorized account access) Want to know what the music industry is doing about it right now? Check out our newest blog here ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/eX4pKE3f

👋 Excited for A2IM (American Association of Independent Music) #IndieWeek in NYC next week? Don’t miss the chance to meet our team members Conor Cox 🤘 and Tom Harington! They’re eager to chat about: 🎶 Innovations in managing royalties for independent artists 💡 The latest developments in AI, fraud, and fan engagement 👥 How we can best serve the independent music community We’re also proud to announce that as an Indie Week partner, A2IM members get an exclusive Trolley discount. Check it out here ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e5wSQWbV

Superfans are the talk of the music industry right now: 💰 Goldman Sachs projects the addressable market opportunity for superfan monetization at $4.5 billion 😲 UMG is investing in HYBE’s fandom platform Weverse, which exceeded 10 million monthly users as of last summer 🤖 WMG is developing an app for its artists’ superfans + they invested in the AI-powered superfan platform Fave 🎶 Spotify hinted at the creation of “superfan clubs” this January ⚡ TIDAL announced a partnership with UMG and will be focusing on recognizing and rewarding superfans Want to know what all the hype is about? We break it down in our latest blog ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/enxR6qCx

A visit to San Francisco wouldn't have been complete without Trolley on a trolley (wearing our newest swag). 😎 🚃 #MRMC24 wrapped up last Thursday, and it was a blast. 🚀 Engaging conversations at our booth, hosting a panel with Bugcrowd, and making connections at our dinner made Barnett Klane, Vincent Guérin, and Daniel Latuszek's time at #MarketplaceRisk more than worthwhile.

Here are 5 things we took away from Casey Ellis and Barnett Klane’s panel at #MRMC24 yesterday: 1️⃣ Market perceptions of security (and trust) have shifted over time. Five years ago, it wasn't a table conversation. Nowadays, governments openly invite hackers to find vulnerabilities on their websites. 🧑💻 2️⃣ Trust isn’t a one-and-done deal, nor is it necessarily comprehensive. Someone might be trusted to do X on day 1 but not Y. 🟢🛑 3️⃣ Trustworthiness and skillfulness don’t always correlate: Some skillful people aren't trustworthy, and vice versa. It's a delicate dance. 💃 4️⃣ Bugcrowd has always been an open platform, believing that to identify vulnerabilities, you need to cast a wide net to fully tap into the power of crowdsourcing. 🌎 5️⃣ They've been leveraging some of our capabilities, like duplicate reporting, to help them identify bad actors. Now that’s trust. 🔗

🔔 #MRMC24 is here, and our panel with Bugcrowd is tomorrow! 🔔 Barnett Klane and Casey Ellis will discuss how organizations can leverage “open marketplaces” to meet market demands and regulatory challenges while expanding their trusted pool of users. If you want advice on how to engage and build trust & ensure compliance without stifling growth, you won't want to miss it. 🚀 Can't make the panel? Come say hi at our booth—Barnett Klane, Daniel Latuszek, and Vincent Guérin will be there! 👋

We’re attending two big events this week: #MarketplaceRisk & #MusicBiz. Seem unrelated? 🤔 Maybe at first glance, but we're actually having a lot of conversations around a common theme at both of them—fraud. Did you know? 😯 According to MusicAlly, fraudulent "listens" in 2023 could have numbered anywhere between 41 and 410 billion individual streams. 😦 Juniper Research estimated that in 2023, e-commerce losses to online payment fraud exceeded $48bn. 🫢 The Guardian has reported that over one month ahead of Taylor Swift's UK shows, at least £1m has been lost to ticket fraudsters. The common theme: fraud is occurring at a staggering rate! But thankfully, we equally know folks who are hard at work fighting fraud—like the Music Fights Fraud Alliance and our friend Christine Barnum at CD Baby. 🤝 For the first time, all corners of the music industry are aligning as a united front to combat fraud in music streaming. Likewise, another unlikely resource available to companies looking to mitigate fraud risk—hackers. 🧑💻 Bugcrowd is leading the charge on this front with their team of ethical hackers, and Founder Casey Ellis is hosting a panel with our own Barnett Klane this Wednesday at #MRMC24 to talk all about it. It’s called “Empowering Fortune 500s Through Open Marketplaces: Trusting the Untrusted,” and you won’t want to miss it. 👀