PLP 077: Pony on Branding, Soundrop and Launching a Distribution Service

his week we’re joined by Zach Domer, better known as Pony. Pony is a CD Baby veteran hailing from the early days when they only offered distribution of physical CDs. More recently, he has served as the brand manager and public face of Soundrop, a CD Baby sister company which focuses on distribution for cover songs. Soundrop currently pays out over $1.5 million in artist earnings per month making it one of the top digital music distributors in the world.

PLP 071: Aaron Green on Covers, Remixes, and Mechanical Licensing

Aaron Green is the Vice President and director of sales and business development at EasySongLicensing.com. Aaron has spent the last 16 years helping artists clear tracks so they can legally distribute cover songs as well as leading a team that handles custom licensing agreements. Easy Song Licensing has helped over 60,000 customers – myself included. In the last 60 days I used them to clear two different covers, my Techno Syndrome cover (from Mortal Kombat) as well a Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair cover. I had a great experience with them both times, so I invited Aaron onto the podcast to talk about covers, remixes, mechanical licensing, derivative works, sampling, public domain and NOIs.

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