NYC3’s March meeting was a double header chock full of useful information on rights & music licensing management. Recordings from those presentations can be found below. A HUGE thank you to Eric Beall for moderating and to all of our guest speakers!

Our first guest speakers were Rene Meredith (Co-Founder/COO) and Jacob Wunderlich (Director, Business Development & Applied Research) of Exploration. Exploration is a rights management company, helping people that own copyrights control their data and monetize it across the Internet by pairing software that is built in-house with the human expertise required. They are doing the most to make rights management accessible and more streamlined than ever. Definitely give this presentation a watch and check them out at https://exploration.io/ if you want to learn more.

Our second guest speaker for NYC3's March 2021 Meeting was Amanda Schupf (SVP Global Artist & Label Services) at Songtradr! Songtradr is the largest B2B music licensing marketplace in the world, connecting artists with brands, advertisers, film, TV and more. In this presentation Amanda dives into Songtradr's newest enterprise: FILTER, a platform that targets user-generated content creators on Youtube and provides them with royalty-free music. Check it out and visit: https://filter.one/ and https://www.songtradr.com/ if you want to learn more.

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NYC3 kicked off 2021 with our first industry meeting of the new year a with guest speakers Erin Kinghorn (Managing Partner) and Andrea Young (Founder & Partner) of Digital Promotions Group (DPG).

Digital Promotions Group Worldwide (DPG) is a full service artist development team and label and marketing music services company.  We partner with artists and their teams to build their presence on the streaming platforms.  DPG’s artist team works primarily with digital press and user generated playlisters cross platform, worldwide, to lay the foundation for fan engagement, awareness and exposure of our musicians and lifestyle brands in the fast-changing world of online listening.

This presentation (provided below & found here) was chock full of helpful information about how to promote artists in the streaming & independent playlisting space.

Follow DPG Worldwide - Digital Promotions Group (@dpgworldwide1 on Twitter & @dgpworldwide on IG) and find more information on and playlists from DPG at the links below

LinkedIn

Website

Spotify Artist Spotlight Playlist

Pandora Playlists

NYC3’s July meeting featured Kris Ahrend, CEO of The MLC. Chris leads the organization’s mission to ensure songwriters, composers, lyricists, and music publishers receive their mechanical royalties from streaming and download services in the U.S accurately and on time. Footage of this informative presentation can be viewed on our Facebook page here or can be found embedded below.

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The NYC3 Songs Camp was created to showcase New York-based songwriting talent that took place over three days (Tuesday June 23rd-Thursday June 25th). Forty five music creators came together to make this camp possible including eleven signed artists/writers, eighteen producers/writers, and sixteen songwriters who worked together over three days with at least one (or more) creative/s based (or normally located) in New York within each Virtual Writing Room across seven different time zones:

Hawaii

Los Angeles

El Paso

New York/Washington DC/Miami/Cuba/Puerto Rico

London

Paris/Norway/Netherlands

New Zealand

Special thanks to all of the following individuals whose efforts made NYC3 Songs possible:

NYC3 Songs Advisory Board: Amy Birnbaum, Lee Dannay, Mark Gartenberg, Tenni Gharakhanian, Ed Poston, Matt Spiller, Sharon Tapper, AJ Tobey and Elisa Watanabe.

NYC3 Technical Advisory Board: Alex Hug, Matt Squire and Collin Steves.

NYC3 Songs Coordinators: Amelia Palmer, Ashleigh Smith and Jonathan Bluth.