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Spotlight on a team member
Eric van Oort, Supervisor Technique.
Eric recently celebrated his 10th year anniversary with us. He joined our team in 2001 as an audio engineer. After a year he started to work on the DVD department and pretty quickly became manager. Now Eric is responsible for all technical audio/video workflows and staff. As supervisor he also joins our management team where he is a respected and valuable member. |
Hot New Releases
Just Say It - Caron
Harvest Moon
Bow Wow Wow
Jaykay feat. Flo Rida, Smokey & Git Fresh
Putumayo Celtic Christmas
Tiny Little Big Band
Fr�d�rique Spigt - Land
Foggy Mountain Breakdown Essential Bluegrass
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Known Issues: Amazon Japan Accounting for period 1107 and 1108 are both processed in 1108. Due to late arival of the statements Japan statements might be processed a month later. This is to avoid all Amazon income is carried forward.
NAXOS Accounting streaming Income for Q2 is processed. Download income is not processed as we are finalizing the royalty parser for these statements.
Downlovers statements for 2010Q4 are still not processed as these royalties have not been paid.
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iTunes Widget Builder
iTunes is now offering a widget builder tool that allows partners to customize and easily integrate into their blog or websites. Multiple widgets are available with differing functionality, including Album Discovery which showcases a single album, and iTunes Search which allows users to search the iTunes store without leaving the page. The widget builder is available to all artists with live content in the iTunes store. More information and instructions can be found on the Apple website.
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iTunes Store Additions
iTunes has recently announced that all music, music videos and ringtones in their store are now available to sell in 12 new European territories. These new territories include Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Additionally, music videos are now offered for sale in Belgium, Greece, Netherlands and Portugal.
If your content is authorized for iTunes Europe and/or worldwide distribution at iTunes, then it is automatically now available for sale in these territories. If you have any questions regarding the new iTunes Europe territory additions, please contact us at [email protected]
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Spotlight on a Label
With years of experience combing the world for great music that's "guaranteed to make you feel good," we're pleased to launch our first digital releases African Beat, Latin Beat, Acoustic Caf� and Celtic Christmas. The Beat releases represent an evolution of Putumayo's contemporary groove series.
Acoustic Caf� follows in the footsteps of our successful Acoustic and Caf� series. Celtic Christmas combines beautiful Celtic voices and instrumentation with Christmas classics in the spirit of Putumayo's past Celtic and Christmas releases. Together they represent a broad cross-section of Putumayo's global musical journeys.
We're pleased to have found a wonderful partner in The Source to launch our digital releases in Europe.
Dan Storper
Founder/CEO
Putumayo World Music
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New Partners
B.O.B.E Best Of Baltic Entertainment. BOBE will be representing The Source inside the Baltic Nations (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania).
New Stores
We are please to let you know The Source now delivers your content to the major platforms in Korea:
The 3 Major Telecom Companies Melon (SK Telecom) - http://www.melon.com Dosirak (KT) - http://www.dosirak.com M.Net (LG Telecom) - http://www.mnet.com
The 3 Major Online Portals Naver - http://music.naver.com Daum - http://music.daum.net Nate - http://music.cyworld.com
And two popular downloadservices Soribada - http://www.soribada.com Bugs Music - http://www.bugs.co.kr
New Labels Meduza Event Marketing GGM Digital X-Tend-It Design KLI Music Services Okay4kids
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Deezer.com
The Source has signed a full catalogue deal with Deezer. A quick introduction by Marc Rabourdin:
Launched 4 years ago, Deezer is the leading European Music On Demand website with 20 million members and 1,3 million premium paying subscribers in France and UK. Deezer's premium solution gives multiple-device streaming access to all your music - on mobile phones, tablets, PCs, Macs, IP TV and MP3 players. Subscribers can search for, discover, share and listen to more than 13 million tracks and 50 million playlists. Thanks to our Editorial Team, Deezer users can also discover new songs and artists through thousands of weekly recommendations and radio channels. Today, Deezer is seeking to reproduce its French success overseas and will be launched shortly in many countries. We have ambitious plans, some impressive strategic partners and a burning desire to be the leading music streaming service for music lovers. Find us on www.deezer.com.
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Placement Requests
We have a new sheet for placement and priority requests. This new sheet allows up to request priority placement on all services in an efficient way. In order for your titles to be considered for featuring, it is essential that you submit this sheet at least 3 weeks in advance. Before you submit the sheet make sure the releases on the CE and "Ready for delivery", this might require 2 extra weeks for processing! Forecast & Market Share projections are still required for any title being pitched for *prominent* featuring. This information can be supplied on a separate sheet. The sheet can be downloaded from the instruction section on the ContentEditor.
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Paul Weller, Wake Up The Nation Tour
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