Warner Music Group announced it is acquiring distribution company Revelator.
The Warner Music Group has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Revelator, the B2B music distribution platform, the companies announced today . The transaction is expected to close next quarter, according to a press release.
Revelator specializes in digital music distribution, rights management, royalty accounting and real-time analytics, with cloud-based tools helping to streamline operations and financial reporting for artists, labels and distributors. Among the platform’s features include Revelator Pro, Revelator API and its white label solutions, which it can offer to independent labels. The deal will allow Revelator to offer their services to WMG’s artists and distributed labels, helping to scale the major label’s distribution and services offerings, which are currently housed under its ADA division.. “The combination of Revelator’s leading-edge technology and array of premier services with our global infrastructure will turbocharge our joint mission to support more labels and artists around the world,” WMG CEOsaid in a statement. “I’m very pleased to welcome the Revelator team to the WMG family.” “Since launching Revelator in 2012, we’ve striven to make the music industry fairer, simpler and more transparent by bridging the gap between creativity, technology and distribution,” Revelator founder and CEOsaid in a statement. “We’re very happy to partner with WMG to superserve artists, labels and distributors around the world.”Warner has been looking into acquiring a distribution company for the past two years, with several deals either falling through or not coming to fruition for various reasons. Most notably, the company looked intoto lead their search for a distribution company, eyeing top DIY distros Distrokid and CD Baby, with other rumors circling the indie distributor Too Lost, though none of those deals materialized. Last year, Kyncl said the company was willing to forgo a purchase if they couldfor these types of companies, and major labels have been looking to shore up market share and offer a larger pipeline for artists of all sizes to flow through their systems — a trend that has both ratcheted up competition and led to some consternation among the indie music community, particularly those who have eschewed working with majors in any capacity.
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