TORONTO, CANADA – January 23, 2024 – LyricFind, the pioneer in lyric licensing and data solutions, is integrating with Tuned Global, the leading B2B music and streaming platform, to bring LyricFind’s products to more music and media services worldwide. Tuned Global customers can now easily access LyricFind’s technology, which includes lyrics and associated data, to create better music experiences.  

Lyrics boost user retention and engagement for streaming apps, a key priority for Tuned Global. Lyrics have long been top-searched terms online, and 81% of users actively seek out lyrics to better understand the words. Lyrics are also helpful data that fans can use to match songs to their mood or activity and that curators can use to deep-dive into their catalogues. 

Tuned Global’s clients can enroll with LyricFind as soon as they sign on with Tuned Global, unlocking lyric-based tools through APIs or turnkey apps. They can display lyrics on their services in multiple languages and use lyrics to search their catalogue and craft new thematic playlists or other content. Also integrated into the Tuned Global platform is LyricFind’s LyricIQ, a content analysis engine that allows curators to filter lyrics and tracks by mood, subject matter, and age appropriateness, among many other parameters.

Gabb Music, a kid-friendly music service launched by Gabb Wireless, became the first DSP to benefit from combining Tuned Global and LyricFind technologies ahead of this latest integration. Tuned Global powers the delivery of a cleared music catalogue to Gabb, including LyricFind’s song IDs. Gabb then uses LyricIQ data and their own filtering system to remove inappropriate content from Gabb Music, making it the world’s safest music catalog for families and young listeners. This successful implementation shows how lyrics plus content delivery can create carefully targeted and wonderfully engaging niche music streaming experiences for underserved audiences.
 

“We are constantly striving to give our clients the tools to succeed, and for us, engagement and fan excitement equal success,” said Con Raso, Managing Director at Tuned Global. “LyricFind will give our clients and their users many more ways to find and fall in love with music. We are excited that thanks to this integration, clients can improve their engagement by simply opting in.”

“Con and Tuned Global team represent exciting, tech-forward integrated solutions, providing best-in-class service and success for music services,” said Roy Hennig, Senior Vice President of Sales at LyricFind. "Our shared goal is to establish stronger and more meaningful connections between musicians and their followers. This collaboration will help us achieve that objective by leveraging our platforms' lyric offerings and groundbreaking technological advancements." 

About Tuned Global

Tuned Global is the leading B2B music and streaming platform, empowering companies & brands to quickly build their own streaming services or to connect their apps with licensed music. Our solutions encompass white-label music streaming apps and over 500 streaming service APIs for businesses seeking robust integration of streaming functionalities and content, including music, radio, podcasts, audiobooks, video, and live streaming. Additionally, our music backend, complemented by a vast catalogue of over 120 million tracks, enables seamless music catalogue delivery and reporting in full compliance with licensing agreements.

Our cutting-edge platform powers music and streaming experiences not only for the music industry but also for the fitness, health, gaming, media, telecommunications, AI, and Web3 industries. Tuned Global has been trusted by leading companies like Line Music, Lululemon, Reactional Music, Rythm, Sona, Etisalat, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, GMM Grammy, FanLabel, and Gabb Wireless, solidifying our position as an innovator in the digital ​​streaming sphere.
 

About LyricFind

LyricFind is the trusted source for lyric licensing and data solutions. With more than 19 years in business and access to more than 100,000 catalogs and over 10 million song lyrics, LyricFind is trusted by a growing list of top music platforms including TikTok, Amazon, Google, Xperi, YouTube, Deezer, Pandora, and more, providing current, accurate, and fully licensed lyrics. LyricFind’s in-house premium reporting infrastructure precisely tracks and pays royalties to songwriters and rights holders on a song-by-song and territory-by-territory basis. 

LyricFind’s solutions include LyricIQ: a set of innovative data analysis and filtering tools. Designed to dive into the lyrical content of songs, LyricIQ uses a mix of AI and manual analysis to provide a deeper understanding through lyrics and give businesses more control over their product offering. In 2021, LyricFind launched Lyric Videos, a platform that generates lyric videos in seconds. For more information, please visit https://www.lyricfind.com/. 

Tuned Global Powers sona.stream, the New Artist-First Streaming Service

Tuned Global, the leader in B2B streaming media services, has partnered with Sona, a new artist-centric streaming platform, to help launch the company’s innovative streaming music service and marketplace, sona.stream. Tuned Global will provide content delivery, tools, and reporting services for Sona, as it rethinks the streaming music model to benefit artists and fans worldwide.

“We are always working to find and support innovative models that accomplish our customers’ goals, which in this case are to offer more ways to support artists directly, not just through the usual streaming royalty payouts,” explains Con Raso, Managing Director of Tuned Global. ”Sona offers a particularly exciting opportunity, combining blockchain and traditional music streaming on a single platform. It’s a first, and it’s brought together some of Tuned Global’s most exciting technical capabilities.”

Co-founded by GRAMMY-nominated artist and producer TOKIMONSTA (Jennifer Lee), Sona allows fans to stream music for free without subscriptions or ads, but also to buy SONAs, digital twins of specific songs that share future streaming rewards with their owners. Artists can choose which songs to auction as SONAs, giving them a new way to capitalize on their creativity, while superfans can purchase their favorite songs as SONAs to earn 70% of that song’s future streaming rewards on Sona.. Designed to maximize social discovery of new, thrilling music by encouraging emerging artists and curators, SONA’s intriguing hybrid approach puts artists at the center, culturally and economically. 

“We’re tilting broken streaming economics in favor of artists and making the industry more fair, equitable and rewarding for both artists and fans,” says Sona co-founder and CEO, technologist and decentralized community expert Laura Jaramillo. “We’re redesigning the system by which music is created, collected and consumed so that artists can own what they do and create without compromise.”

While forging a new path, Sona operates alongside the existing models, allowing both labels and independent artists to opt in. Thanks to help from Tuned Global’s content delivery and APIs, music lovers can create playlists and launch radio stations based on their favorite artists (planned for 2024). Tuned Global will also ensure Sona can report its usage to rights holders while creating a new market that promises to change the game for signed and independent artists.

“Though they are pioneering a new model, Sona knew they needed to harmonize with the existing music industry and its needs,” Raso notes. “We were here to make sure they could accomplish this efficiently and cost-effectively, so that they could bring Sona to market faster.”

About Tuned Global

Tuned Global (tunedglobal.com) stands as the premier provider of B2B streaming technology solutions, fueling the success of numerous renowned streaming services worldwide. Their comprehensive offerings encompass music, audio, and video streaming, presenting a unified platform that includes white-label streaming apps, streaming service APIs, music content delivery, and licensor reporting. With their web3-ready technology, Tuned Global enables the creation of captivating music experiences within the metaverse.

Tuned Global's cutting-edge tech has been harnessed by industry titans spanning music, fitness, gaming, media, telecommunications, and more. Esteemed clients such as UFC Unlimited Sound, Line Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, True Digital Group, Pizza Hut, GMM Grammy, FanLabel, Lululemon and Samsung have all relied on Tuned Global's solutions.

About Sona

Music is everything at Sona. Co-founded by producer TOKiMONSTA and Laura Jaramillo, Sona’s vision is a music industry that’s more equitable and rewarding for both fans and artists. This starts with sona.stream, an ad-free music streaming platform with a new economic model: a rewards pool for artists funded by auctioning SONAs, one-of-a-kind digital twins of specific songs that give owners 70% of that song’s streaming rewards. 

The Sona protocol will eventually be the open-source foundation for other innovations that enable a better music industry that empowers artists to keep more of the value they generate with their work. Sona was recently named a finalist in Music Ally’s SI:X startup showcase, and was also chosen for the ADE Chorus program at the Amsterdam dance event.

Tuned Global Boosts African Music Market Growth Via New Partnerships

In the structurally challenging but rapidly maturing markets of North and Sub-Saharan Africa, a fresh crop of new music products and startups are emerging, offering bold challenges to global players and established streamers in the region. They are meeting local challenges head on, exploring new business models, customer services, and approaches to curation.

Leading B2B music services provider Tuned Global is forging several new partnerships with these intrepid innovators, supporting local efforts to create innovative streaming services made for the market, from startups, all the way to telcos. Most recently, the international B2B music services company has started working with Nigerian music streaming app Jumamo to expedite its launch plans. Tuned Global has also expanded their partnership with Ethiopian music and podcast streamer Sewasew by adding the Universal Music Group catalog to the service and by also supporting the launch of their religious streaming service. These two new services join already up-and-running Tuned Global partners like Tieme Music (Ghana) and WAW Musik (Côte d’Ivoire). 

“The energy and innovation in African markets are inspiring, and we’ve found that our partners there are looking for new ways to engage listeners, highlight local artists, and solve complex technical problems,” says Con Raso, Tuned Global’s Managing Director. “Every market and country are unique, and streaming services are embracing this, taking international and regional heavyweights on. They turn to us to help make sure their ideas come to market fully formed and highly functional.” 

Sub-Saharan Africa was the world’s fastest-growing music market in 2022 (IFPI), with North Africa (as part of MENA) not far behind. Streaming music services are a significant part of this growth, bringing in $17.5bn, or 67% of total global recorded music revenues. Many of these streaming services are local heroes, deeply familiar with listeners’ needs and tastes. 

These local services face significant headwinds. Payment and billing can be a challenge in some markets where customers may be unbanked. Connectivity and bandwidth can hamper seamless streaming experiences. Cultural and music tastes can vary widely even within the same country or region. 

Telcos often lead the way when it comes to launching music services, but the region is seeing an increasing number of startups willing to take on international players. (VC investment in all African startups, for example, totalled more than $4.8bn in 2022.) To create successful projects, African telcos and music services have turned to Tuned Global as a trusted partner to provide the apps, the APIs, and back-end technology to power their services.

From appropriate recommendations to flexible payment infrastructure and commercial models, African streaming services need a wide variety of options and approaches to create compelling music products. Mainstream international players are sometimes ill equipped to manage local challenges and serve local needs. Tuned Global helps its African customers solve these challenges, offering white-label turnkey apps, APIs, and content services that can be adapted to local conditions. 

“We’ve seen customers use everything from daily payments and vouchers to bundles in order to make the most of existing payment practices, while improving performance and surfacing the right music, key differentiators in a market that’s maturing rapidly,” explains Raso. “African music fans expect the same level of responsiveness and experience as listeners do in other regions, and we’re providing the technology, content, and advice to let services achieve that.”

Jumamo
Jumamo is a brand-new Nigerian music streaming service with a focus on local repertoire and uplifting local artists. The company has launched the first dedicated online radio platform that will pay African artists for their streams and playlist curators for the streams of their curations.

“At Jumamo, we’ve worked to create a music experience that really focuses on the music and artists important to Nigerian and African music lovers, while ensuring our app works perfectly for our customers,” notes Chinedu Chukwuji, Director of Jumamo. “We’re gearing up for our launch, a day that’s come far more quickly than anticipated thanks to Tuned Global, who have helped us get the right content to music fans in a smooth and seamless way.”

Sewasew

Launched in October 2022, Sewasew Multimedia streaming platform has gained popularity in Ethiopia and abroad for its exclusive content. With the mission to reinvent the creative industry of Ethiopia, Sewasew has directly signed over 100 Artists, it has an agreement with Ethio telecom to bring Ethiopian music to masses and now has announced a deal with Universal Music group. They have also used Tuned Global to launch their religious streaming service Betemezmur.
 

“We are thrilled to partner with Tuned Global and Universal Music Group to bring their extensive catalogue of music to the Ethiopian market via a service that leads the market in experience and content,” said Abraham F., Managing Director, Sewasew Multimedia. “Our work together is a testament to Ethiopia’s growing importance in the global music industry, and we look forward to strengthening and expanding Ethiopia’s music market with the support of international partners like Tuned Global and Universal Music Group.”

Tieme Music
Tieme Music is a digital streaming service launched in 2022 by a Ghanaian startup founded by Paris-based music producer Franck Osei-Mensah. Complemented by distribution and label services, Tieme Music aims to empower Ghanaian artists and amplify their voices on a global scale. The company is committed to showcasing the rich cultural heritage and diverse music genres of Ghana while fostering collaboration and growth in the industry.
 

"Tuned Global has been an invaluable partner for more than a year. They enabled us to swiftly enter the Ghanaian market with a highly professional offering, right from day one. Additionally, they played a crucial role in our innovative approach to catering to our target demographic. Through an extensive survey, we uncovered that Ghanaian users primarily opt for YouTube because it’s free. The offline feature also emerged as a top priority for them when it comes to music streaming services. Thinking outside the box, we introduced a system where users could earn offline minutes by watching ads. Although this may seem straightforward, its implementation required Tuned Global's technological expertise. It marked a distinctive approach in this market, especially when coupled with our extensive Ghanaian music catalog," explains Charlène Osei, Country Manager for Ghana at Tieme Music.

About Tuned Global

Tuned Global (tunedglobal.com) stands as the premier provider of B2B streaming technology solutions, fueling the success of numerous renowned streaming services worldwide. Their comprehensive offerings encompass music, audio, and video streaming, presenting a unified platform that includes white-label streaming apps, streaming service APIs, music content delivery, and licensor reporting. With their web3-ready technology, Tuned Global enables the creation of captivating music experiences within the metaverse.

Tuned Global's cutting-edge tech has been harnessed by industry titans spanning music, fitness, gaming, media, telecommunications, and more. Esteemed clients such as UFC Unlimited Sound, Line Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, True Digital Group, Pizza Hut, GMM Grammy, FanLabel, Lululemon and Samsung have all relied on Tuned Global's solutions.

Tuned Global has partnered with mobile providers worldwide to create compelling music and media products for their customers. However, this latest partnership with Greenland’s public internet, mobile, and postal services provider will do more than bring music to more Greenlanders’ phones. It will help promote and champion underserved local homegrown musicians and their fans by gathering them into a single service.

“We want to encourage Greenlandic music and cultural life,” explains Thure Tornbo Baastrup, Business Developer at Tusass A/S. “Streaming services don’t really serve this end, and small players on a global scale don’t get much with current payment models. In Greenland, however, there is a big underground music scene and interest in this music, and we decided to support this scene.”

Tusass is launching this new music service to aid local music discovery. Greenlandic music fans are often forced to turn to unofficial uploads on user-generated content sites, with varying quality and unclear connections to the artists who made the music. With Tusass, these fans can find everything in one place and know they are supporting the rights holders of that music. The app will be available in Greenland, Denmark, Canada, and the Faroe Islands, and in Kalaallisut (Greenlandic), Danish, and English languages.

Tuned Global has a strong history of working with telcos on music streaming projects to serve specific niches in their markets, whether they want to focus on specific demographics, genre or culture. Gabb Wireless, for example, wanted to launch the first kid-friendly music streaming service in the US, and tapped Tuned Global to make it happen. Tuned Global also helped True Digital Group, a division of Thailand’s largest telco, add a music offering to their entertainment super app, TrueID. This app includes a section dedicated to regional music, sounds often difficult to find on global services. With Tuned Global’s expertise, several partners were able to launch mJams, a music app on Our Telecom (Solomon Islands) and Bmobile (Papua New Guinea), bringing more music from local Pacific Island artists to regional fans. And Tuned Global supported the creation of Ethiopian music app Sewasew, which recently partnered with Ethiotelecom. 

“A number of smaller and more specialized markets need ‘glocalized’ apps that offer local music lovers a catalog that’s culturally relevant and timely. Therefore, telcos are often the perfect players to launch these types of music apps, as they add significant value to their customers, as well as supporting local culture in general,” explains Tuned Global SVP Head of EMEA Rick Gleave. “Our services ensure a rapid, legally compliant, and cost effective ‘go to market’ route,  and in turn deliver elegant and more importantly relevant user experiences and content to listeners.”

Tusass chose Tuned Global because its white-labeled streaming apps let local visionaries go from idea to launch in a matter of months. “We have a turnkey product and can customize an app to a client’s brand,” adds Tuned Global managing director Con Raso. “We can ensure everything is integrated to their systems for authentication, billing, and bundles. Basically, we take care of everything, so that our clients can focus on what they do best, talking to their customers and spreading the word about their new offering.”

“We want to give something to society. We are a public service and have a responsibility to the public. We have musicians right now without their music accessible,” says Baastrup. “That is an essential problem we were addressing, and Tuned Global is helping us solve it.”

About Tusass

Founded in 1879, Tusass (formerly Tele-Post) provides mobile, telephone, and internet service to all of Greenland, as well as carrying packages and letters. Tusass works to create the best customer experiences and strives to be a strong asset for the benefit of Greenlandic society.

About Tuned Global

Tuned Global (tunedglobal.com) stands as the premier provider of B2B streaming technology solutions, fueling the success of numerous renowned streaming services worldwide. Their comprehensive offerings encompass music, audio, and video streaming, presenting a unified platform that includes white-label streaming apps, streaming service APIs, music content delivery, and licensor reporting. With their web3-ready technology, Tuned Global enables the creation of captivating music experiences within the metaverse.

Tuned Global's cutting-edge tech has been harnessed by industry titans spanning music, fitness, gaming, media, telecommunications, and more. Esteemed clients such as Lululemon, UFC Unlimited Sound, Line Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, True Digital Group, Pizza Hut, GMM Grammy, FanLabel, Delta Airlines, and Samsung have all relied on Tuned Global's solutions.

More about the Greenlandic music and culture

Greenlandic music embraces the island’s dual Inuit and Danish heritage. Greenland’s Inuit music shares its roots with those of many other Arctic peoples, from Canada to Russia, while Danish Greenlanders draw in Scandinavian sources. Over the centuries, there has been a great deal of musical cross-pollination, and more recently, many artists are deeply influenced by international sounds, rock in particular. 

Tuned Global and Revelator Bring NFT Power to Music Streaming Services 

Tuned Global and Revelator, two leading music technology companies, are joining forces to build one of the first bridges connecting Web2 music streams with Web3 digital assets and payments. This strategic partnership makes a major step in establishing embedded Web3 infrastructure that seamlessly integrates with Web2 streaming music platforms.

Through this partnership, DSPs (Digital Service Providers) and other customers working with Tuned Global will have the capability to enable artists to mint and distribute music releases as NFTs directly on their Web2 streaming platforms. These NFTs will coexist with traditional streamed music, enabling fans to enjoy digital collectibles and actively engage with token gated content, while providing artists with blockchain-based payment opportunities through smart contracts.

Revelator, a leading digital IP infrastructure provider for music, will enable Tuned Global to offer their customers a robust white-label platform to mint, sell, distribute, report, and track music NFTs. Tuned Global, the foremost B2B provider of music streaming services, will leverage Revelator's tech to power the creation and distribution of music NFTs on music streaming services. Services powered by Tuned Global’s white-label music apps or APIs can let fans explore, discover, and collect digital offerings seamlessly within a familiar music app. 

The functionality provided by this partnership will benefit both artists and fans. Artists can mint new releases, exclusives, or derivative content as NFT collections on Polygon, the most popular layer-two scaling solution on Ethereum. Fans can enjoy these music tracks just like any other song on a traditional streaming service. This will let a broader audience engage with NFTs in a familiar Web2 environment. These music offerings will feature an "NFT" badge, serving as a helpful indicator for fans who are new to the concept. Artists will have the freedom to share their music NFTs with other Web3 streaming platforms and sell them on various NFT marketplaces.

Tuned Global has been powering streaming services for local markets for years, including Plern in Thailand, Mjams in the Pacific Islands, and Sewasew in Ethiopia. Clients can now opt in to participate in Tuned Global's latest offering and unlock new revenue streams for independent artists in their respective regions. Using Revelator's Web3 infrastructure, music releases are tokenized, enabling the distribution of royalty payments through smart contracts. This groundbreaking approach marks the first instance where a DSP facilitates on-chain royalty payments.

Fans will have the opportunity to access exclusive artist content through NFTs, providing them with fresh avenues to support their favorite artists directly. These NFTs can give fans access to exclusive behind the scenes video footage, presale rights to new recordings, artwork, and other digital content.

“This partnership lets music lovers collect NFTs in fan-friendly ways where they are already experiencing music,” explains Bruno Guez, CEO and founder of Revelator. “Fans won’t need to mess with wallets or special Web3 players, or even leave their favorite music platform. They’ll pay with a credit card. This access and ease will open up new revenue streams for artists, as more fans jump in.”

“The Web3 music ecosystem will exist in parallel to the streaming economy for years to come. To maximize their benefits, creators will need to engage in both, recognizing their distinct strengths and potential for synergistic collaboration. We are delighted to have Tuned Global as a partner to help us make this a reality” says Gilad Woltsovitch, head of Revelator Labs. 

“Many of our clients are building streaming services in markets where large-scale DSPs just don’t work well enough for local artists, their fans, or the company,” explains Con Raso, Tuned Global’s Managing Director and founder. “NFTs will provide a whole new avenue for revenue in markets with a strong local scene and culture. Local fans adore the artists who are torchbearers for their culture, and now they can support and reward them in new ways, even if they are not yet familiar with Web3.”

About Revelator

Revelator (revelator.com) offers turnkey digital IP infrastructure to music companies globally. Our cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions empower music businesses to thrive in the digital age. Revelator is driving the music 3.0 economy forward by enhancing speed, accuracy, and transparency in rights management, digital supply chain management, and royalty distribution.

About Tuned Global

Tuned Global (tunedglobal.com) stands as the premier provider of B2B streaming technology solutions, fueling the success of numerous renowned streaming services worldwide. Their comprehensive offerings encompass music, audio, and video streaming, presenting a unified platform that includes white-label streaming apps, streaming service APIs, music content delivery, and licensor reporting. With their web3-ready technology, Tuned Global enables the creation of captivating music experiences within the metaverse.

Tuned Global's cutting-edge tech has been harnessed by industry titans spanning music, fitness, gaming, media, telecommunications, and more. Esteemed clients such as UFC Unlimited Sound, Line Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, True Digital Group, Pizza Hut, GMM Grammy, FanLabel, Lululemon and Samsung have all relied on Tuned Global's solutions.

The leading B2B music and streaming solution provider, Tuned Global, is announcing the hire and strategic promotion of six key team members to supercharge its business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and push its AI strategy forward. Following its recent acquisition of Swedish AI music tech company Pacemaker, Tuned Global expands its technical team outside of Australia with a strong focus on music AI. Pacemaker co-founder Jonas Norberg becomes the company’s Head of AI, reporting to Managing Director Con Raso, bringing along with him his team - co-founder Daniel Wallner and Product Development Director Victor Garcia.

“My mission is to get Tuned Global to use its data and other relevant assets in combination with the latest AI developments to strengthen its platform and grow our customers,” says Jonas Norberg. “I’m very excited about the opportunity I see for Tuned Global to become the operating system for music, the platform developers use to create engaging music experiences.”

In addition, SVP Head of EMEA Rick Gleave, who joined the company in September, strengthens customer success and sales forces in his territory with Daniel Kirby and Mateus Moura. All based in London, they will work closely with customers to provide them with vital technical support and insights as they find the perfect music and streaming solution with Tuned Global to grow their business.

Reporting to CRO Spiro Arkoudis, long-tenured team member Virginie Chelles has been promoted to VP Head of Marketing & Communications and is now located in France to boost the rapid growth in this territory.

Tuned Global’s EMEA business has grown over 300% in the past three years. Rick Gleave plans to expand Tuned Global’s already solid customer base in EMEA, building on their existing roster of innovative clients, including background music service Rehegoo, fitness and health music providers PureEnergy, MediMusic and METALWORKOUT, music for gaming solution Reactional Music, audio story app for Sony Music Germany and African music streaming services Waw Musik, Tieme and Sewasew.

“This expanding European team is an exciting milestone for Tuned Global and part of our global strategy to grow and lead our industry. We’ve worked to develop and acquire new technology from web3 to AI, and now we’re bringing on the right people. I can’t wait for this dynamic team to deliver great outcomes for our clients,” said Con Raso, Managing Director. 

“Europe, Africa and the Middle East are proving extremely important to Tuned Global’s ongoing growth as a company, and we needed a dedicated team with deep regional knowledge on the ground to maximise our momentum,” explains Rick Gleave. “Adding additional customer support, technical, and marketing power to the mix will let us thrive and serve more clients not only as the leading B2B music and streaming tech provider worldwide for music streaming companies but also fitness, gaming, social, media and telcos.” 

Meet Tuned Global’s new European team:

Virginie Chelles first joined Tuned Global’s Australian team in 2014. Boasting extensive agency experience working with high-value international brand campaigns (L’Oreal, Kia, Jim Beam), her marketing efforts helped put Tuned Global on the map. She also led the product marketing team of the company’s consumer-facing streaming app, named Nada Kita, in Indonesia. Now relocated to France and promoted to VP Head of Marketing and Communications, Chelles aims to work closely with the newly established European team while maintaining and growing Tuned Global’s reputation globally as they move into cutting-edge technologies such as AI and web3.. 

Victor Garcia is named Senior Engineer at Tuned Global, reporting to Jonas Norberg. Part of the team at Pacemaker that built the first AI-enabled DJ app for Spotify, he will use his expertise in industrial design and music tech to continue to develop this technology at Tuned Global.

Daniel Kirby comes to Tuned Global with decades of technical experience in complex, data-rich projects, most recently as Head of IT at Octave Group (PlayNetwork/Soundnet/TouchTunes). He has helped a wide range of companies and organisations to implement and improve their IT strategies. Now as Presales Technical Consultant at Tuned Global, Daniel will assist prospective customers with technical questions about the company’s turnkey music and streaming technology solutions. He will report to the SVP Head of EMEIA, Rick Gleave.

Mateus Moura takes the role of Customer Success Manager after two years at Pacemaker, the AI-powered DJ app. Moura's expertise in community building, customer service, and product management within the music tech industry will bring tremendous value to our current customers.

Jonas Norberg is the former CEO and co-founder of Pacemaker. In that role, he created products that broke new ground for music apps and won prestigious design awards, including Apple Design Award, Red Dot “Best of the Best,” Designpreis Deutschland “Gold”, and Design Prize Switzerland. He also guided the company as it worked closely with international brands in the streaming and automotive industries. Norberg will now continue developing Pacemaker’s technology at Tuned Global, serving as Head of Artificial Intelligence and reporting to Tuned Global’s Managing Director, Con Raso. 

Daniel Wallner, Pacemaker co-founder and former CTO, has done everything from designing onboard computers for satellites to creating unique audio products. An engineer with top-to-bottom knowledge, Wallner has cracked challenging problems in technology. Wallner will join the data science team at Tuned Global, reporting to Jonas Norberg. 

About Tuned Global

Tuned Global (tunedglobal.com) is the leading B2B streaming technology solution provider, powering some of the world’s most successful streaming services. They offer a one-stop shop for music, audio and video streaming, providing white-label streaming apps, streaming service APIs, music content delivery and licensor reporting. The company’s web3-ready technology can also be used in the metaverse to create immersive music experiences. 

Tuned Global’s tech has been used by some of the biggest names in music, fitness, gaming, media, telco and beyond, including UFC Ultimate Sound, Samsung, Line Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, True Digital Group, Pizza Hut, GMM Grammy, FanLabel, Delta Airlines, Gabb Wireless and Lululemon.

Tuned Global, a world leader in B2B content streaming technology has acquired Swedish music technology company Pacemaker and its award winning AI-driven DJ applications. The purchase marks a watershed in Tuned Global’s growth, its first acquisition, as it expands into new markets and continuously innovates its music and media services for clients worldwide. 

Founded by rocket scientists with a passion for data, Pacemaker holds several patents for its unique AI DJ and rightsholder-friendly DJ mix solutions. Their Apple Design Award winning DJ interface and technology will become a valuable addition to Tuned Global’s wide-ranging streaming product and service line.

“Our ultimate goal is to help our clients create more engagement for their end users,” explains Con Raso, Managing Director and Founder of Tuned Global. “Thanks to Pacemaker, Tuned Global extends its B2B streaming technology dominance by now offering enhanced AI tools that will hook and excite users as part of our white-label music apps, as well as in a standalone product for companies who aren’t yet our customers.”

“We believe that with Tuned Global, Pacemaker’s full-stack, mobile-first tech will reach a wider audience and we’ll be able to improve the music experience for Tuned Global’s clients. An obvious fit is in the wellness industry, but we think it’s much broader than that,” says Jonas Norberg, CEO of Pacemaker. “Our AI DJ is so good that it can improve the experience of any playlist, creating seamless, great-sounding, well-timed transitions between songs and audio. ”

Thanks to this timely acquisition of game-changing AI tools, Tuned Global’s customers will soon reap the benefits of Pacemaker’s groundbreaking innovations. Pacemaker’s AI DJ can weave tracks and other audio together in real time for a deeply engaging listener experience. Pacemaker’s match machine can help curators instantly dig up great tracks in a massive catalog and keep the groove going for workouts, therapeutic sessions, or other playlist-driven moments. These personalization and curation capabilities substantially increase user retention rates and session lengths.

“We’re really excited to not only be extending Tuned Global organically as we’ve always done but now to also do so through a perfectly aligned acquisition,” Raso notes. “Pacemaker has a team and tech that fit our core values and what we’re trying to achieve for our customers and their end users.“

Tuned Global is backed by Australian venture capital firms Exto Partners and Artesian.

About Tuned Global

Tuned Global is the leading B2B streaming technology solution provider, powering some of the world’s most successful streaming services. They offer a one-stop shop for music, audio and video streaming, providing white-label streaming apps, streaming service APIs, music content delivery and licensor reporting. The company’s web3-ready technology can also be used in the metaverse to create immersive music experiences. 

Tuned Global’s tech has been used by some of the biggest names in music, fitness, gaming, media, telco and beyond, including the UFC, Line Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, True Digital Group, Pizza Hut, GMM Grammy, FanLabel and Psycle. 

About Pacemaker

Pacemaker has always been a groundbreaker in DJ innovation: launching Pacemaker®,

the world’s first pocket-sized DJ system back in 2008; Pacemaker for iPad in 2014, the

first DJ experience which was truly accessible to the mainstream, with tens of millions of

tracks powered by a revolutionary Spotify integration; Pacemaker Autopilot, the

world’s first AI DJ and the world’s first DJ app with directly licensed music.  

Pacemaker has won numerous awards including the prestigious Apple Design Award and Apple Editor’s Choice. Founded by rocket scientists with a passion for data, the Pacemaker team has been at the epicenter of music innovation for over 15 years. 

Tuned Global has partnered with METAL WORKOUT, its latest customer in a fast-growing space where music is crucial. Tuned Global’s tools will ensure METAL WORKOUT’s on-demand video workouts for metalheads deliver the best user experience. By integrating Tuned Global’s APIs and playlisting tool, METAL WORKOUT can blast the right music for its Metal-loving subscribers at launch. (January 26; more info www.metal-workout.com) 

“Fitness went digital during the pandemic but is now experiencing deep differentiation as apps and platforms find their audiences. Many of those audiences are defined and motivated by music,” explains Con Raso, CEO of Tuned Global. “We are here to turn great fitness ideas and communities into thriving apps that use music to make workouts truly enjoyable, providing a range of straightforward solutions to what was once an administrative nightmare.”

METAL WORKOUT taps into the close ties between pumping iron and Heavy Metal, bringing together experienced coaches and athletes who also happen to be Metal musicians, beginning with Yann Heurtaux (Mass Hysteria, Karras) and Matthew K. Heafy (Trivium, Ibaraki). It’s part of a trend to make fitness more fun and effective by hooking into the music and lifestyle people already live and love. Some studies have shown, for example, that music can reduce the perceived difficulty of a workout by 12% and increase endurance by 15%. 

“When we started the METAL WORKOUT project, we knew that being a bridge between two big industries like fitness and music would be very challenging,” reflects CEO Stéphane Lefèvre. “This bridge is made of Metal because we deeply believe that a bespoke experience based on segmented music makes the difference for Metal music fans. With Tuned Global, we have found the perfect match thanks to their tools and APIs to achieve a deep segmentation by subgenres of Metal: Death, Thrash, Heavy, Black…”

No matter what the genre, Tuned Global has been a key partner for fitness companies, including online dance school Steezy, whose product relies on hip hop and R&B, among other types of music. “Music increases engagement in digital fitness across many parameters, including session length and subscription retention,” notes Raso. “For music rights holders, it’s a win as well, as partners in the space can lead to new revenue streams and new listeners for labels, publishers, and distributors.”

For startups like METAL WORKOUT, this expertise has been essential to launch: “Tuned Global’s content delivery and reporting system to rights holders are proven and scalable,” says Stéphane. ”We started in France with Believe, but soon we’ll be able to add Metal from the Majors’ catalogs, and our goal is to open new territories. Metalheads are a strong community everywhere in the world, and whatever the country is, we are united by Metal.”

About Tuned Global

Tuned Global (tunedglobal.com) is the leading B2B streaming technology solution provider, powering some of the world’s most successful streaming services. They offer a one-stop shop for music, audio and video streaming, providing white-label streaming apps, streaming service APIs, music content delivery and licensor reporting. The company’s web3-ready technology can also be used in the metaverse to create immersive music experiences. 

Tuned Global’s tech has been used by some of the biggest names in music, fitness, gaming, media, telco and beyond, including the UFC, Line Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, True Digital Group, Pizza Hut, GMM Grammy, FanLabel and Psycle. 

About METAL WORKOUT

METAL WORKOUT (metal-workout.com) is the only fitness platform dedicated to Metal fans. The project began in 2020 as a collaboration between Stéphane Lefèvre and Yann Heurtaux from the French bands Mass Hysteria and Karras, also a recognized sports coach. Matthew K. Heafy from the American bands Trivium and Ibaraki, an accomplished athlete, joined the project early on. At METAL WORKOUT, music is a powerful motivator that helps improve performance and achieve fitness goals.

Tuned Global is the driving force behind the music offerings of two companies, MediMusic and Nue Life Health, providing breakthrough approaches for daunting conditions.

Sound has long been used in healing. Now, tech-powered music and audio have become integral, evidence-based components in medical treatments, from memory care to pain management to PTSD and major depression. Some analysts expect the market for music therapy to grow to $4.42b by 2028, though this figure may be even larger, considering the trillions in estimated health-care market growth in the coming years.

Streaming media experts Tuned Global are announcing two new clients, MediMusic and Nue Life Health, using their music APIs to provide streaming music to patients in a variety of settings.

MediMusic has developed a revolutionary technology that prescribes music as medicine to reduce pain and anxiety. MediMusic’s proprietary algorithms extract the relevant features from a piece of music, resulting in a fingerprint for healthcare use. The MediMusic app works with the patient’s age, gender, nationality, and ethnicity and based on sociological and psychological science, it then compiles the perfect 20-minute playlist of soothing music to calm them.

Initial clinical NHS trials at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, found the use of MediMusic saw an up to 22% reduction in heart rate in patients living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As well as helping those with dementia, MediMusic can also be used for pre/post operation, chronic pain, and dentistry, through to improving motor response as part of a physical rehabilitation program. MediMusic, which secured $1.4m (1.2m £) investment, was recently accepted into the Abbey Road Red accelerator program for music startups.

Tuned Global will provide metadata, music content, and streaming service functionality via its full suite of APIs. This also includes essential reporting to rightsholders, and a content management system to help MediMusic curators.

Nue Life Health brings ketamine therapy to more people needing new mental health treatments, including those with PTSD and treatment-resistant depression. Championing this more predictable psychedelic, the company has created a companion app to allow patients in the United States to interact with clinicians remotely and optimize their experience. Music forms a valuable layer in this app-supported experience that guides patients through ketamine sessions in the comfort of their own homes, unlocking more potential transformation and healing. With Tuned Global’s content delivery technology, they can access the millions of tracks they have licensed with essential labels and provide industry-standard stream reporting. 

“High-quality music delivered seamlessly is essential to the success of medical innovators like MediMusic and Nue Life Health, who depend on streaming music to support treatments,” says Con Raso, Managing Director of Tuned Global. “We are delighted to be unlocking more opportunities for new models that channel music’s power to impact and heal, and to be the trusted music partner to these important new treatment modalities.”

Gary Jones, Co-Founder & CEO of MediMusic: “MediMusic has managed to digitally fingerprint the DNA of music so we can prescribe the right songs as medicine to ease anxiety and stress. You could say it’s a musical pharmaceutical. Tuned Global is helping us implement our vision of revolutionizing the way we treat people in pain and living with dementia through music, so they can lead better and fuller lives. We’re grateful for this partnership and for the best-in-class technology and ideal music it provides us.

Demian M. Bellumio, Co-Founder of Nue Life Health: “Our musicologist-curated and algorithmically programmed playlists form an essential part of Nue Life’s at-home treatment offerings. Tuned Global helped us get the catalog and administration we needed to bring commercial, high-caliber music into the Nue Life experience in a seamless and efficient manner.”

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About Tuned Global

Tuned Global (tunedglobal.com) is the leading provider of B2B streaming technology solutions, powering some of the world’s most successful streaming services. They offer a one-stop shop for music, audio and video streaming, providing white-label streaming apps, streaming service APIs, music content delivery and licensor reporting. The company’s web3-ready technology can also be used in the metaverse to create immersive music experiences.

Tuned Global’s tech has been used by some of the biggest names in music, fitness, gaming, media, telco and beyond, including the UFC, Line Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, True Digital Group, Pizza Hut, GMM Grammy, FanLabel and Psycle.

About MediMusic

MediMusic is a Hull-based medical tech start-up that takes a scientific approach to unlock music’s transformative medical benefits.The technology can be used in hospitals, dental surgeries and care homes to manage chronic pain or support patients before and after operations. It has recently secured £1.2m in funding that includes investment from Finance Yorkshire, the University of Hull, Sauce Consultants Limited and private investors.

MediMusic recently won Best AI-Based Music Neuroscience Solution at the 2022 GHP Private Healthcare Awards and a string of Start-Up of the Year awards.

About Nue Life

Nue Life Health, PBC (Nue Life) is a comprehensive telehealth platform that strengthens and improves mental wellness by enhancing brain function, performance, and longevity through innovative, evidence-based therapies. Launched in 2021, the company currently offers at-home ketamine therapy, virtual integration groups, and individual health coaching, easily accessible via telemedicine in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. For more information, please visit www.nue.life