SAMRO vs PRS: what the portals actually tell me
Two systems, real distributions, and the reasons I have a joint membership. I put the original statement excerpts next to the explanations.
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Working notes, videos and the occasional receipt.
Most of what I know about production, royalties and sync came from actually doing the work, getting a few things wrong and looking at what happened afterwards. I'm putting more of it in one place.
What my royalty statement actually shows
Real statement entries, what they tell me about placements and why the total is only part of the story.
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Before you send tracks to a sync library
Ownership, alternate mixes, metadata, submissions and how to make good music easier to work with.
Read this piece ↗The audio archive · 2015 onwards
I've got a decade of thoughts recorded here.
Early journal entries, Leverage, Ramblings, the 1M Podcast, Lockdown Diary and Mindset Sessions. Eight original SoundCloud playlists, going all the way back to 2015. I want these to be accessible, not just disappear into the back of a SoundCloud profile.
There's more on video.
I've gathered the other videos here rather than crowbarring them into a page they don't belong on.
