Introducing Connex, the first intelligent industry-wide platform, built to collect and manage complete credits and audio, vital to the accurate remuneration and accreditation of music creators’ work, directly with music labels and industry organizations globally.
Connex seamlessly connects music creators and their preferred Creator Tools with labels, distributors, and publishers, revolutionizing the creator-to-label connection whilst streamlining industry workflows in a one-stop highly secure solution for managing credits and audio files and further propelling better collaboration and transparency within the modern music industry.
Speaking on the launch of Connex, Björn Ulvaeus, ABBA member, music tech entrepreneur and advocate for creators’ rights said, “As a creator, I’ve seen firsthand the challenges in ensuring everyone gets the recognition and fair compensation they deserve, Connex is a crucial step towards a future where technology empowers transparency and collaboration, enabling us to build a more equitable and sustainable music industry for all.”
Created to serve and support the entire music ecosystem, from independent creators to large-scale labels and publishers, Connex was built from four years of engagement with music professionals across the entire industry, resulting in a true understanding of their workflows and challenges, and the launch of an industry-leading suite of services created to solve them. Connex launches May 1, with Universal Music Group, the world leader in music-based entertainment as their first customer.
Connex launches with Universal Music Group, the world leader in music-based entertainment as its first client.
Tim Burgess, VP Process Innovation, at UMG said “Our creative community, ranging from artists, songwriters, producers to engineers and session musicians is central to everything we do, and we strongly believe that ensuring they are correctly credited is an essential part of both promoting their work and helping to secure their legacy. At UMG we continue to innovate and develop increasingly reliable ways to collect complete, accurate and rich creator credits so that everyone involved in creating the music that we release and administer, is accurately recognized and compensated for their work. Connex is a critical piece of the end-to-end process and technology network that can connect the credits captured in the studio directly to labels’ A&R and label copy systems, and onwards. We are delighted to be the founding customer of Connex, as we work together on this exciting initiative to drive the industry forward.”
Connex offers a series of industry-enhancing solutions for the entire music ecosystem, including:
● Connecting Creators with Music Companies: Connex launches with Session Studio, VevaSound, MusicTeam and Patchbay as fully integrated partners, able to connect hundreds of thousands of music creators directly to all music companies.
● Intelligent Audio and Metadata Management: Through Connex – Labels, publishers and distributors are able to easily review the data and assets collected within one platform, with the added benefits of complete audit tracking and conflict resolution.
● Reduced Manual Effort and Errors: Connex allows real-time delivery of data from a vast range of sources, ingesting unstructured data from email chains, spreadsheets and documents, minimizing manual data entry and the errors most often associated with it.
● Powerful Automation: Automatic sample detection on every audio file allows music companies to take control of sample clearance early; powerful lyric transcription significantly reduces time and input errors, delivering accurate and time-stamped assets ready to review in record time.
● For companies of all sizes: Connex offers both a shared SaaS platform and a dedicated enterprise solution with private infrastructure, internal systems integration, and dedicated support, making it adaptable for independents and large music companies alike.
Connex also embraces the DDEX global standard RIN message (Recording Information Notification), ensuring that a common digital language is used to pass these credits throughout the entire music ecosystem.
Kim Beauchamp, DDEX chair and EVP, Strategic Business Transformation & Operations at Universal Music Group, said “DDEX developed the RIN message to standardize the way that data collected in the studio is passed on to music labels and other recipients. Unfortunately, the standard doesn’t address the reality of how labels receive credits today which often involves receiving information from multiple sources via multiple mediums. Connex has been built to bridge that gap and make the vision of RIN a reality, to make the transmission of credits from the studio to the label as easy, robust, and accurate as possible.”
David Campbell, Managing Director of Connex said: “Connex represents a real step forward for the music industry. It simplifies the process of managing creator credits and audio and enables stronger collaboration and faster decision-making across the industry. UMG joining us as our founding customer is testimony to Connex’s capabilities and further supports our mission to solve the industry’s complex data challenges with software products that people want to use. Importantly Connex is accessible to all music companies, from independents to the world’s largest music catalogs.”
Connex was developed in collaboration with STAGE, a leading global innovator in music rights and royalties management systems like Session Studio, Salt and RDx
For more information about Connex, visit www.connex.music
