Sponsors

ICE is a music technology company built by rightsholders, for rightsholders. It delivers accurate, transparent royalty payments to creators and simplifies licensing for DSPs. Working with Publishers and CMOs, ICE provides top-tier Licensing, Processing, and Copyright services.

Serving over 330,000 rightsholders, ICE has processed trillions of music streams and paid over €5 billion in royalties since 2016. The ICE Core licence includes repertoire from the major collection societies, such as PRS, STIM, and GEMA, and major independent publishers like Peer, Concord and Songtrust.

With a copyright database of over 55 million musical works, ICE’s operations touch over 250 territories, making it one of the most comprehensive and globally connected rights and royalties hubs in the music industry.

Unlock the full value of your songs with a growth-focused publishing partner. Believe maximizes your revenue, provides strategic and sync expertise, and supports creativity through a global ecosystem of songwriters.

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok’s global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

KOSIGN is a reimagined publishing administration platform launched by independent music publisher Kobalt. Designed for artists, producers, and songwriters, it allows creators to collect global publishing royalties with simple, transparent terms and no long-term contracts. In its first year of operation, KOSIGN was named one of the 10 most innovative music companies by Fast Company.

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) is a nonprofit organization transforming how songwriters, publishers, and other rightsholders are paid for their music on digital platforms in the United States. Since 2021, The MLC has been administering blanket mechanical licenses for streaming and download services in the U.S. and has achieved total royalties distributed of over $4 billion, at no cost to rightsholders. With a commitment to transparency, The MLC provides a free public database and Member Portal, helping ensure music creators are paid accurately and on time in today’s digital music economy. The MLC was established by the Music Modernization Act to bring greater efficiency to mechanical steaming royalties.

To reimagine music rights & royalty management through streamlined processes that ensure accuracy, facilitate speed, and deliver real-time data insights. Rytebox empowers companies to focus on business growth, reduce costs, and elevate creator success by meeting complex needs with simplified solutions.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a membership association of more than 1.1 million songwriters, composers and music publishers, and represents some of the world’s most talented music creators. Founded and governed by songwriters, composers and publishers, it returns nearly 90 cents of every dollar collected to its members as royalties and has the lowest overhead rate of any U.S. PRO.

In 2025, ASCAP reported record-high financial results of $1.945 billion in revenues and $1.759 billion available in royalty distribution monies to its members. Over the last ten years, ASCAP has delivered a 6.7% compound annual growth rate for total revenues, and an 7.3% compound annual growth rate for total royalty distributions to members.

ASCAP licenses a repertory of over 20 million musical works to hundreds of thousands of businesses that use music, including streaming services, cable television, radio and satellite radio and brick and mortar businesses such as retail stores, hotels, clubs, restaurants and bars. ASCAP collects the licensing fees, and identifies, matches, processes and pays royalties to its members for trillions of performances every year. The ASCAP blanket license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. ASCAP puts music creators first, advocating for their rights and the value of music on Capitol Hill, driving innovation that moves the industry forward, building community and providing the resources and support that creators need to succeed in their careers.

Digital Data Exchange, LLC (DDEX) is a not-for-profit, membership organisation that was formed in 2006, and is focused on the creation of digital music value chain standards. DDEX was established by a consortium of leading media companies, music licensing organisations, rights owners, digital service providers and technical intermediaries. Since then the membership has grown from right across the digital music ecosystem throughout the world. As such, DDEX is the only music industry organisation that has a membership spanning every sector of the industry.

SESAC Music Group is a global, multi-line music company that provides a wide range of data, technology and services to publishers, songwriters, composers and creators across every corner of the music industry. With its four divisions including Performing Rights, Music Services, Audiovisual Music, and Church Resources, SESAC Music Group drives efficiency in licensing for music users and is home to a wide array of world-class music companies.

Downtown Music Publishing is the trusted partner for some of the world’s most beloved songwriters, storied music catalogs, and emerging artists from John Lennon & Yoko Ono to The National, Peso Pluma, Raja Kumari, and many more. Alongside Songtrust and Downtown Music Publishing Africa, we empower over 500,000 songwriters with more than 9 million copyrights, offering centralized publishing administration and innovative rights management. With a century of combined experience, Downtown Music Publishing’s team delivers tailored services in sync, rights management, data & analytics, and more, supported by bespoke technology and a dedicated creative and client services team.

Songtrust, a Downtown Music Company and part of Virgin Music Group, is the world’s leading music publishing administrator for songwriters and businesses at every stage of their careers. Supporting the publishing administration of more than 5 million copyrights globally, Songtrust collects royalties directly from 65 global pay sources across 240 countries and territories, with direct digital collections from DSPs and major platforms like Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Powered by Downtown, Songtrust empowers independent talent to maximize their global earnings while retaining 100% copyright ownership on flexible, fair terms.

Since its launch in 2008, Spotify has revolutionised music listening. Our move into podcasting brought innovation and a new generation of listeners to the medium. In 2022, we took the next leap, entering the fast-growing audiobook market—continuing to shape the future of audio.

Today, more listeners than ever can discover, manage and enjoy over 100 million tracks, 7 million podcast titles, and 700,000 audiobooks on Spotify. We are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with 761 million users, including 293 million subscribers, in 184 markets.