LyricFind
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Music |
| Founded 📆 | 2004 |
| Founder 👔 | Darryl Ballantyne
Mohamed Moutadayne Chris Book |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Toronto, ON |
Area served 🗺️ | Global |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 87 |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.lyricfind.com/ |
| 📇 Address | |
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LyricFind is a global music lyrics licensing company that provides legal lyric solutions to music services, headquartered in Toronto, Canada
History[edit]
Darryl Ballantyne (CEO), Mohamed Moutadayne (CTO), and Chris Book (Board of Directors) founded LyricFind in 2000 while attending The University of Waterloo. While initially a consumer-facing lyric website, lyrics were removed due to licensing concerns in December 2000. Ballantyne, Moutadayne, and Book restarted the company in 2004 as a B2B aggregator of lyric rights. They started by aggregating all the rights and content for the use of lyrics online, and sublicensing those rights to music services, websites and mobile apps..[1][2].
In 2005, they signed their first deal with EMI Music Publishing (now a part of Sony/ATV), followed by The Harry Fox Agency (representing publishers) and all the major publishers soon followed.
In 2006, music executive Ted Cohen and Andrew Stess, then at All Music Guide, joined LyricFind’s Board of Directors. From there, LyricFind acquired its first major client, RealNetworks[3], and they gradually expanded their licensing partners
In January 2013, LyricFind acquired Gracenote’s lyric service and merged it with its own.
In the same year, tech investor Larry Marcus, managing director of WaldenVC, joined LyricFind as an advisor and invested personally in LyricFind advisor[4][5].
LyricFind also introduced a software that synchronized lyric delivery, with Deezer becoming an early adopter of the feature in late 2014, offering "sing-a-long" or "score" mode.
On May 1, 2014, LyricFind signed on to be the sole third party administrator for future lyrics licenses controlled by Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG)
Throughout 2013 and 2014, LyricFind worked with the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) and their anti piracy program to pursue websites that were illegally hosting lyrics, pressuring them legally to either change their business models or be shut down. "Through its anti-piracy program, NMPA has sent takedown notices to over 300 unlicensed lyrics sites and licensed over three dozen. LyricFind has been instrumental in helping infringing sites obtain licenses and continue operating", stated David Israelite, president of the NMPA, in May 2014.
By April 2015, LyricFind reached six languages supported in-house, and opened a new office in New York in May 2015. In August 2015, LyricFind expanded their operations into China with the digital music distribution company R2G acting as their regional agent. At the time, R2G was part of the China Music Corporation, which has since closed its doors[6][7][8].
In late 2015, LyricFind launched the LyricFind U.S. and LyricFind Global Charts in collaboration with Billboard[9][10]. Both charts use LyricFind's traffic data to rank the top trending lyric searches.
In 2016, the company partnered with The Recording Academy on a number of initiatives, including the licensing of lyric displays for the Grammy’s websites[11]
Products[edit]
Lyric Display[edit]
One of LyricFind’s core services is online Lyric Display, which is offered in static (displayed as a block of text), line-by-line (displayed in time with the music) and word-by-word (every word is synchronized with the music) formats.
Lyric Search[edit]
Lyric Search allows users to search through an extensive catalogue of lyrics, and find lyrics and music based on only a small segment of lyrics.[12]
LyricIQ[edit]
LyricIQ is a set of data analysis and filtering tools, designed to dive deeper into the lyrical content of songs and give businesses more control over their product offering. LyricFind’s technology bases the organization and analysis of songs solely on their lyrics. By identifying exactly what is being said in a song, LyricIQ categorizes song themes and topics - even if the sound of the song is contrary to its lyrical content[13][14]
With three main features (Emotion & Sentiment Analysis, Content Filters and Subject Matter Analysis), LyricIQ can be used in child-friendly services, voice search, playlisting, music discovery and language learning tools. It can also be utilized by various industries, including automotive, in-store, health & fitness, sync placements and catalogue management.
Lyric Videos[edit]
LyricFind’s latest solution is a platform that generates batches of lyric videos with custom backgrounds, fonts, animations and visualizers[15][16][17][18]
This product can be used by record labels and owners of large catalogues with the Full Serve option, through which LyricFind can create branded and dynamic lyric videos[19] by request.
In 2022, LyricFind introduced Self Serve Lyric Videos, which allows distributors and platforms to integrate the Lyric Video creation tool into their platform so users can create their own lyric videos.
LyricFind has created branded lyric videos for artists such as The Game, Pop Evil, Chromeo and Bryant Myers amongst others.
Lyric Translations[edit]
LyricFind offers human lyric translations for exhibition and monetization across partner platforms[20]. Thanks to their in-house team of bilingual professionals, the languages supported are Spanish, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean[21]. In 2022, the product was launched on Deezer, the first DSP to provide that.
In 2021, LyricFind launched Global Lyric Project, a community driven lyric translation platform where people around the world can translate song lyrics from English to Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean and vice versa.
Administration[edit]
LyricFind delivers quarterly royalty reports providing insight into publishing catalogues. The reports record all publisher and songwriter data and accreditation, copyright ownership data, split information, and territorial restrictions.
Clients[edit]
LyricFind services more than 100 platforms including ByteDance, Amazon, Google[22][23], Xperi[24][25][26], YouTube[27], Deezer[28], Mercedes, Pandora, and iHeartRadio.
Publishers[edit]
LyricFind has licensing from over 65,000 music publishers[29][30][31], including all the majors[32]: Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony-ATV, Warner/Chappell Music Publishing and Kobalt. LyricFind tracks, reports and pays royalties to those publishers on a song-by-song and territory-by-territory basis.
Administration[edit]
LyricFind properly credits writers and publishing companies for each song by displaying the lyrics with their accompanying metadata. LyricFind tracks lyric usage, reports, and pays royalties to rights holders for every view of their lyrics on the lyric services it powers.
References[edit]
- ↑ "A Conversation With ... LyricFind's Darryl Ballantyne". FYIMusicNews. 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "Industry News - Darryl Ballantyne and LyricFindNouvelles de l'industrie - Darryl Ballantyne et LyricFind". SOCAN Words and Music. 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "RealNetworks And LyricFind Bring Searchable Song Lyrics To Rhapsody Online | Realnetworks". realnetworks.com. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "Gracenote & LyricFind Partner, Walden's Larry Marcus Joins As Advisor". Hypebot. 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ Peoples, Glenn (2013-01-16). "LyricFind Partners with Gracenote, Gets Investment from Larry Marcus". Billboard. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "LyricFind expands into China with R2G". Music Business Worldwide. 2015-08-12. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "LyricFind Partners With R2G For China Expansion". All Access. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "LyricFind partners for expansion into China | News | Music Week". www.musicweek.com. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ White, Emily (2015-10-27). "LyricFind Debuts Exclusive Lyric Charts On Billboard.com". Billboard. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ↑ O’Kane, Josh (2015-10-28). "Toronto's LyricFind takes its data to Billboard charts". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ↑ "LyricFind to Provide Licensed Song Lyrics to the GRAMMYs". PRWeb. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "LyricFind founder on how to pivot from B2C to B2B - with Darryl Ballantyne". Business Podcast for Startups. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "B2B music firm Tuned Global to power Gabb Music streaming app for kids in the US". Music Business Worldwide. 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "Tuned Global partners on new child-friendly streaming service | Complete Music Update". Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ Legrand, Emmanuel (2022-06-08). "LyricFind launches an automated service helping rights holders to produce lyric videos and translated lyric videos". Creative Industries News. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
- ↑ "LyricFind launches a free tool for making lyric videos - Music Ally". Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ↑ "New LyricFind Service Automates Lyric Videos For Rights Holders". FYIMusicNews. 2021-07-22. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "LyricFind Launches Free Automated Lyric Videos, Partners with eOne Music | Cashbox Canada". cashboxcanada.ca. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ Stream, Platform & (2021-07-21). "LyricFind Launches Free Automated Lyric Videos, Partners with eOne Music". Platform & Stream. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "Rock Paper Scissors - LyricFind - Canada's Songs Found in Translation: LyricFind Receives Government of Canada Funding to Promote and Export Canadian Content via Lyrics and Lyric Translations". lyricfind.rockpaperscissors.biz. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
- ↑ "Tools: LyricFind - Music Ally". Retrieved 2023-04-19.
- ↑ "LyricFind partners with Google". Music Business Worldwide. 2016-06-28. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ↑ "Google Partners With LyricFind To Deliver More Lyrics In Search, Administer Rights". Hypebot. 2016-06-27. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
- ↑ "DTS Connected Radio Adds Song Lyrics from LyricFind to its Global Hybrid Radio System". investor.xperi.com. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "DTS Connected Radio Adds Song Lyrics from LyricFind to its Global Hybrid Radio System | Placera". www.placera.se. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "Xperi Adds Lyrics Feature To DTS Connected Radio Platform". Insideradio.com. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ Khoury, Rita El (2020-02-06). "YouTube Music starts showing song lyrics from LyricFind for some users (APK Download)". Android Police. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
- ↑ "Deezer inks deal with LyricFind to incorporate lyric streaming". The Music Network. 2015-10-27. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ Flores, Griselda (2021-07-07). "LyricFind Expands in Brazil Via Deal With ABRAMUS Digital". Billboard. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ "LyricFind Partners with Wixen Music Publishing". Music Connection Magazine. 2020-12-29. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ N/A. "LyricFind Partnership with Downtown Music Publishing to Expand Globally". Shore Fire Media. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
- ↑ Sawers, Paul (2012-01-30). "LyricFind Gets Lyrics Rights from 4 Major Publishers". TNW | Media. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
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