 Having a good distributor by your side is one of those things musicians often overlook. In fact, it seems most musicians I talk to just go with whoever their friend says or the first one they hear about and then are shocked when they are charging you annual fees while taking a huge cut of your royalties while doing very basic services. This is why I want to tell you about one distributor I recently came across called Verse 1 Distribution, which I think has a lot of helpful features for musicians like playlist pitching, extensive analytics, social media tracking, and a ton more. They have a feature set that is unique to the field of distributors that I think my audience should know about. And as you all know, I don't take money from services unless I think they provide value to my audience. So I'm excited to tell you about them today as they're the sponsor of this video. So Verse 1 Distribution is a music distribution company that helps independent artists and labels to distribute their music to major digital music stores and streaming platforms. Now, you may or may not know this, but in the digital age, there's consistently been two tiers of distribution. What is the distributors who are open to take on anyone? Alucard distributors, who you pay a fee to and they offer you delivery to the various streaming services, but not much else. And then there's services who are more selective of who they take in, who offer more extensive services like playlist pitching, marketing, and help with advertising, or a handful of other services. Verse 1 falls into the latter category, but what makes them different than others on this distribution tier is Quick Customer Service and Verse 1 facilitates collaboration between artists on the platform. So in order to work with them and get those advanced features, you do need to apply to them. And if you're accepted, you can utilize an advanced set of features that can help grow your music through various different marketing channels and features. Most notably, though, of those features that I know you all really want, in addition to the distribution services, is Verse 1 can also offer promotion services to help artists gain exposure and build their fanbase. I know the one you will all be most excited about is playlist pitching, since the service pitches your music to editorial curators that manage organic playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services. But they also have music video promotion, where your video is professionally submitted to via com media networks like, you know, MTV, MTVU, and MTVLive, etc. The BET Networks family, which include BET, BETCospal, BETJams, BETSoul, as well as Fuse, Revolt, and Music Choice, as well as Canadian TV channels like MTVCanada, Music Plus, Much Music, CMTCanada, or Latin American Networks, UK and Ireland television broadcast networks, like Clubland TV, Karang, Planet Pop, Kiss TV, Stars, Capital TV, which if you get on these can obviously do a lot to expand your audience. And since I just read a solid study from Medea, which is likely the only good music data company, they said TV is nearly 1.5 times bigger for music discovery than even TikTok. So I know a lot of you are in on TikTok, you know, perhaps from me talking about it in tons of videos you've seen of mine. But truly, this is a big deal. Your video is also pitched for placement at major music blogs of influence and large online video distributors that will get your video seen across a wide variety of online platforms. And if that weren't enough, they also do radio promotions. Their approach to radio promotion is tailored to suit each artist carefully, planning each campaign to deliver results. With 30 years of combined industry experience, they reach out to a network of influencers and professional taste makers to help get placements on some of the biggest radio stations in the world for whatever your genre. Research shows that radio air place proven to drive streaming numbers. And I've seen it myself. And I even get some really interesting statistics from them, like Pop and Rock represented 75% of all radio spins worldwide. Pop alone had 42% and Electronic took third place. On Spotify, Hip Hop amassed 38% of the top 100 streams followed by Pop 27% and Latin 18%. And with their analytics, you can see radio airplay globally and figure out which markets you should tour or market in. And as I've told you all many times, so many artists overlook radio promotion these days. And so many artists I consult with use this exploit to get airplay. And honestly, it really does a lot to break artists today. Even though so many think of it as a thing of the past, platforms like SiriusXM still break so many artists and move huge numbers. With first one, your music gets uploaded to over 280 platforms, including the most crucial ones like Spotify, TikTok, Apple Music, YouTube, Tencent, and well, we'd be here all day if I named them all. But you can see some highlights in this list below. They allow artists and labels to upload their music and album artwork, set release dates, and choose from various distribution options, including single track distribution, album distribution, and pre-order setup for Apple, Spotify and Amazon, which is really nice since many distributors lack that feature all while keeping your copyrights. The platform also offers royalty collection services, which means that artists can be sure that they are receiving all the money they are owed from their streams and downloads. One of the key benefits of using verse one distribution is that they distribute music to over 190 countries, including China and India, so you could reach 3 billion people, AKA 10 times America's population, or 40% of the world's population. This means that independent artists can have their music available to listeners all over the world without having to navigate the complexities of international music distribution. They have all that along with 48 hour delivery to platforms, ISRC and UPC codes. But I know the feature that many of you really want, which is social media verification, because you think having that blue check mark will really impress that e-girl you post thirsty comments on the profile of all day to no response, but maybe finally she'll notice you when you have that shiny check mark and it blinds her eyes with cloud. Well, verse one can help you get it on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Triller. Just please, after you get this, don't go thinking you're too cool for your friends because you never know when these things will start to be sold to any fool like on Twitter. So you may have seen other distributors and services charge you tons of money to collect publishing and optimize it around your songs, but included in verse one services is enhanced publishing collection. Verse one provides digital music publishing administration services, which allows you to earn additional royalties when your music is played publicly or if it's used in movie or ad sinks, non interactive or satellite radio like SiriusXM live and non live venues and other retailers. Most musicians only make money from ticket sales when they tour. However, if your music is being distributed and performed worldwide and you don't have a publishing deal, your royalties are sitting in collection societies around the world waiting to be claimed. This also includes YouTube content ID, which can help get you paid for videos people make with your content. All of this can help ensure you leave no dollars that are rightfully yours, uncollected, since this is one of those areas where so many times artists don't get all they are entitled to, which is a real shame in the age of musicians being ripped off left and right. Now you're probably wondering what's the catch? I have to tell you, there isn't any. They charge a 15% commission, which is standard for this level of distribution. And there's no yearly or reoccurring fees, which is really crazy considering how many distributors with none of those extra features will charge you annual fees and still take 10 to 15%. I have good news. There's even more features to tell you about. Verse one integrates Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media data to artists' music distribution profile to make it easier for artists to track and compare social media growth trends with their music career growth. As a key performance indicator, AKA KPI for us nerds, an artist's trending number of followers can be examined. If artists set goals for increasing their numbers of followers and track their success over time, they may see if their strategy is working well or if it needs to be adjusted. But that's not all. Verse one also has detailed analytics of reporting to help artists track their streams and revenue, including socials, charts, playlists and airplay data in a single dashboard. And they have growth analytics categories by country and platform, as well as global radio airplay monitoring, real-time data from millions of playlists and over 8,000 charts, which are an in-depth view on specific songs and countries. And look at this data. It looks really good and is easy to read. And speaking of those charts, they show the most popular songs and albums and are based on how many people buy, stream or play them on radio, which allows artists to track data across different countries on the user dashboard, as well as allowing users to track chart entry and position changes across the globe. And I know you all want smart links to share to your fans from your distributor that shows where fans can listen on each platform. So verse one distribution, auto-generates smart links for each release as they're delivered to stores. Smart links include links to artists new releases on various streaming platforms. But there's even more. One of the things missing from some of the competition is easy features to appeal to the audio files out there. And I know so many of you care about appealing to discerning listeners with nice systems. Verse one has Dolby audio processing via the Dolby encoding engine and Dolby's media generator audio engine which reduces download times and boosts playback quality. Right now, Dolby Atmos audio can be delivered to Apple Music Title and Amazon Music. And let's be honest, every nerd with way too much money to spend on a hi-fi these days will annoy you to have this if they're rinsing your song. Aren't you lucky? They also have Apple Pro Res encoding for Apple's standard format. But for those of you who are looking to go global, verse one also has extensive marketing opportunities for Asian markets, which was one of the biggest markets in the world and what I know many of you are really interested in. If you are, they have two plans, basic and advanced. And as you may have guessed, basic as well, basic, which includes distribution to their streaming services in Asia like Apple Music China as well as 10 cent music entertainment as well as all these other services that you see listed on the screen right now that I don't quite know how to pronounce. But if you want even more, their advanced tier offers, playlist pitching, radio plugging, lyrics translation, music video subtitling, cultural localization, digital distribution of both audio and video, publishing administration, as well as royalty collection and more. And now that you know this, there's a video on the screen now that tells you the best way to release music right now in order to get as many streams as possible when you have a great distributor and you should really watch that to make sure you get your next song to blow up as much as possible. So click it now. Thanks for watching.