About Music Intel

Music Intel Ltd

Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom

Musicata Pro

Connected roster intelligence and artist operations for labels, distributors, management companies and education partners. Musicata Pro links an organisation view with a branded Artist Lab for every active artist in scope.

StreamShield · AgentRadar · TourManager · CampaignManager · Reporter

BlackBox Royalty Investigator

Human-led forensic royalty investigation for publishers, rights teams, estates and catalogue owners. BlackBox preserves source records, investigator actions and findings in a full chain of custody and produces a reviewable evidence pack.

It does not file claims, decide legal entitlement or guarantee recovery. The client and its advisers decide what action follows.

StreamShield

Roster-wide streaming-integrity monitoring inside Musicata Pro. StreamShield shows where review should begin and records the factors behind that priority. People decide what happens next.

- Field Notes / Research series
Chief Executive's Office · 5 papers

The Music Intel research series

The series is five papers by Nick Pollard, CEO of Music Intel, following music data from the rise of streaming to royalty investigation and catalogue value.

Read them in order, from 01 to 05.

By Nick Pollard, CEO ·

  1. The Streaming Inflection, free research paper 01 of 05 from Music Intel: how technology quietly rebuilt the music industry, and turned it into a data industry. Navy card with a vinyl record and an orange MI label.

    01 The Streaming Inflection

    Paper 01 of the Music Intel research series traces how streaming quietly rebuilt the music industry, from units sold to usage counted. Download the free paper.

  2. The Fragmented Music Data Problem, free research paper 02 of 05 from Music Intel: the industry built a global distribution system before it built a global identity system. Orange card with a shattered record and ISRC and ISWC tags.

    02 The Fragmented Music Data Problem

    Paper 02 of the Music Intel research series explains why music has more data than ever, yet the complete picture around a work or recording is still so hard to establish.

  3. You Don’t Know What You’re Missing, free research paper 03 of 05 from Music Intel: how can any investigator, however experienced, know that everything reasonably available has been considered? Navy card with an evidence tag and a File Open stamp.

    03 You Don’t Know What You’re Missing

    Paper 03 of the Music Intel research series asks how any royalty investigator, however experienced, can know that everything reasonably available has been considered.

  4. Investigating the Information, free research paper 04 of 05 from Music Intel: what mature investigative markets can teach royalty investigation. Navy blueprint card showing raw records processed into prepared evidence for an investigator.

    04 Investigating the Information

    Paper 04 of the Music Intel research series looks at how legal disclosure and digital forensics solved the too-much-data problem, and what that means for royalty investigation.

  5. The Economics of Knowing, free research paper 05 of 05 from Music Intel: when better music data becomes financial intelligence. Cream certificate-style card with a navy record ringed by tags asking how much am I owed and what is it worth.

    05 The Economics of Knowing

    The final paper in the Music Intel research series shows how the data that answers ‘have I been paid correctly?’ can also help answer ‘what is this catalogue worth?’