New Media Squad

27/02/2020

When music is played in venues like bars, restaurants, retail outlets, hotels, super markets, gyms and wellness resorts they have to pay a yearly fee to national collecting societies. Did you ever wonder how collecting societies know what music these millions of locations are playing?

One of the main revenue models (and increasingly important) for music rightsholders in 2020 is getting better stats.

27/02/2020

When music is played in venues like bars, restaurants, retail outlets, hotels, super markets, gyms and wellness resorts they have to pay a yearly fee to national collecting societies. Did you ever wonder how collecting societies know what music these millions of locations are playing?

One of the main revenue models (and increasingly important) for music rightsholders in 2020 is getting better stats.

27/02/2020

Midem 2020 - New Media Squad will be there of course. Available to talk about our recent coding projects for some of the leading music industry companies AND of course to demo Tunetrawler (www.tunetrawler.com)

Guess what: we can meet in the conference building or welcome you on board of our ship (next door to Palais des Festivals) for some cold drinks and proper idea sharing 👍

28/03/2018

One of Sonos's preferred development teams, New Media Squad, successfully launched LEVEL1 (http://level1.io) - a bespoke music service for your repertoire broadcasting directly to potentially millions of Sonos devices around the world.

15/02/2018

This is Tribe of Noise 's 10th anniversary year and they've welcomed their 30,000th active member last month! Enjoy! Like! Share! Make Some Noise for this great global initiative!

We've put together this nice and energetic mini-mix to celebrate another landmark: we are now 30k strong! Thank you to our amazing community!

08/06/2017

Social experiment: walking around at night wearing ( and recording with) Snapchat Inc. at Midem in Cannes, France. Outcome: totally acceptable.

With up and coming talents SHAKKA (UK) and Mongoose (NL). Shot with

08/06/2017

Some really productive meetings and quality entertainment at Midem 2017

07/06/2017

Attending at the moment. Good to add to our conversation: who are the gatekeepers in the (near) future?

Apple has begun an assault on home audio, announcing the brand new HomePod speaker system and showcasing brand new multiroom functionality.

05/06/2017

On my way to music conference Midem with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Shooting some footage with Snapchat Inc. from my window seat. Music "I can Fly" by (licensed CC BY SA)

Going to music conference MIDEM 2017 with KL1273. Shot from window seat with Music "I can Fly" by Lego Lepricons. License: CC BY SA.

24/05/2017

Hessel Van Oorschot will be available on June 6 and 7 at Midem to explain "direct to household" broadcasting and the Sonos LEVEL1 project (stealth mode) to record labels eager to monetize their master recordings beyond Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music and Amazon.com