KOBALT MUSIC
“ With KOSIGN,” Nuno continues,“ up-and-coming writers have access to the same world-class platform and infrastructure that our marquee clients have. Think about Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Childish Gambino and many others.”
While KOSIGN scales the platform’ s benefits down to the individual creator, Kobalt’ s B2B ambitions aim to scale it across the entire industry, making it the“ backbone for music publishing administration”.
Nuno says:“ Essentially, we’ re talking about bringing large catalogues from all types of players within the industry onto our platform.
It means ingesting, cleaning and managing millions of songs from creator clients, publishers and music funds.” The primary bottleneck isn’ t the tech, but the data.“ Interoperability at the systems level is not a challenge,” he goes on,“ but onboarding the catalogue is, particularly as the data quality in the music publishing industry can be subpar, especially for older catalogues.” To handle the future scale, the architecture was designed accordingly.
Nuno adds:“ From a scalability perspective, it’ s something we’ ve factored into our architecture, by focusing on horizontally scalable technology, event-driven architectures,
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