Songtradr has acquired creative licensing agency Big Sync Music.
Headquartered in London, with additional teams in Singapore and New York, Big Sync sources music for local, regional and worldwide advertising campaigns on behalf of household brands. Clients include Dove, Knorr, Magnum, Johnnie Walker, Samsung, Amazon and Lipton.
Songtradr is a fully automated music licensing marketplace with over 400,000 artists and catalogues from 190-plus countries. It develops real-time data intelligence, including streaming and social media metadata to guide the licensing process.
“Big Sync’s global footprint working with major international brands combined with Songtradr’s technology and our growing community of artists, creates an unparalleled music licensing solution for all parties,” said Songtradr founder and CEO, Paul Wiltshire.
Big Sync CEO and co-founder, Dominic Caisley, said: “Leveraging Songtradr’s technology, we are now able to augment our services with streamlined access to a larger community of high quality music talent. Songtradr’s data and technology infrastructure also allows Big Sync to match a brand’s target product audience with data-matched selections of music. Combining this data intelligence with our teams’ music supervision experience is a game changer and will provide our clients a more efficient and transparent service.”
The acquisition was a multi-million dollar cash and equity transaction. It resulted in Big Sync’s co-founder, Unilever Ventures, the venture capital arm of Unilever, exiting and becoming a minority shareholder in Songtradr.
Big Sync will continue to provide independent music supervision, composition, licensing and rights management services to its clients.
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