Compressor allows you to easily import digital sales reports from various sources and DSPs. A sophisticated compression method reduces the amount of reported data significantly. Compressed sales can be exported into Excel, text/tab, csv and other formats for further processing. This tool is very convenient for labels that already have a legacy royalty system, but struggle with the amount of sales information or for users that can not afford or don’t want to introduce a royalty system, as even manual royalty processing comes into reach again. Available in February 2012 as stand-alone software, starting at 700 EUR, or bundled with your brand new digital distribution services, powered by Danmark Digital.
Target Audience
Compressor was developed as the answer to an ever increasing amount of digital sales data. It is obvious that the digital age in music is moving into a direction, where more and more tiny little sales items are presented in huge sales reports, often resulting in thousands of lines for single sales. So two things are changing at the same time:
1. The amount of sales data is reaching levels that no
Excel sheet in the world can handle
2. The resulting income is very poor, compared to the amount
of information that has to be processed.
In the past, huge amount of sales data resulted in huge amounts of income and the purchase of a professional royalty system was easily justified. Today, it’s different.
We created a solution that enables you to keep your costs down and to compress sales in a way that allows for manual royalty processing, again. But even legacy royalty systems that were purchased in the past may get their extra lifetime, as they become useful again in digital times, even if their designers did not have this new era in mind.
What it does
Compressor comes with a catalog engine that can be built easily by just importing existing meta data sheets. The goal is to provide basic information about your releases, EANs/UPCs/, Tracks, ISRCs, etc. for identification reasons. But we also included an ISRC and EANUPC generator for your convenience. Please understand, that this is not a meta data tool to hold all information about tracks and releases, but a specialized catalog tool that enables the system to identify products and tracks in your sales reports.
DSPs and download stores are managed in a separate area where you can set the preferences for each DSP: Country, Currency, Download Type, Compression Level.
The import tool can import sales from all sources in all currencies, as it relies on the world wide standards of EAN/UPC/GrID/ISRC. During the import all sales lines are compressed with the method you chose for every DSP.
A reporting tool allows for a visual overview of your sales and product performance per DSP and territory.
Finally, compressed sales can be exported in various formats, such as Excel, Csv, Text/Tab for further processing. You can export sales per month, quarter, half year or year. The sales are not only sorted by EAN/UPC and ISRC, but also by Artist, so manual royalty processing comes into reach again.
About sales reports and compression
Even when great standards, like DDEX are defined and evolving, the real world of sales reports in the music industry is all but standardized. The only standards we all can rely on are EAN/UPC/ISRC, as even the GrID is used only by a handful of players. Compressor comes with import functions for some of the bigger players like iTunes, the main power of this software lies in its flexibility, as you can adapt the import function to the structure of the sales files you get in. The system also understands the new structure of reports coming from the iTunes Cloud Sales and Youtube, where you basically get a list of tracks and products and a total, representing your revenue and, when applicable mechanical (publishing) income.
The compression level you can set is limited more by legal considerations, than technical ones. Some labels may be able to ignore particular information like download stores, content type or even territory. The more information you can afford to let go, the higher the compression level will be. But even when keeping all information, the compression levels are remarkable and allow you to further process sales more easily.
Compressor will be available in February 2012 as stand-alone software, starting at 700 EUR, or bundled with your brand new digital distribution services, powered by Danmark Digital.
