by Ryan on September 22, 2017
Introducing HAAWK.
HAAWK monitors, monetizes, and enforces copyrights on user-generated video and audio platforms (YouTube Content ID, Facebook, Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and more). We’re building fresh technology to help bring accountability, transparency, and newfound revenue to today’s music and video rights holders. HAAWK was co-founded by myself and Ben Barger, an aeronautical engineer and operations specialist who headed up operations at our previous company, AdRev/AudioMicro, Inc..
HAAWK just closed it’s first round of funding, a $2.5M series seed round led by some of Southern California’s top VC firms and HAAWK recently acquired the assets of Dart Music, a music distribution and metadata company to help jumpstart our product offering and expand our distribution reach.
Details of HAAWK’s funding and the Dart acquisition were covered in TechCrunch, Music Business Worldwide, Digital Music News, and SocalTECH.
Thank you for your support.
by Ryan on August 14, 2015
I’m pleased to announce that as part of Inc. Magazine’s 2015 Inc. 500 ranking of the USA’s fastest growing private companies, AudioMicro, Inc. (including our 4 brands – AdRev, DashGo, AudioMicro, & ImageCollect) was named as the USA’s 5th fastest growing media company (and #162 overall). This accolade is based on our actual revenue growth over the past 3 years, with revenue last year growing to $13.4 million. It’s the 3rd year in a row that we’ve made the Inc. 500 (we were #2 in media in both 2014 and 2013) and if the first part of this year is any indicator, we’re in a solid position to make the list for the 4th straight time next year. A special thank you goes out to our customers, clients, partners, and most importantly to our amazing team for all of your hard work through the years.
by Ryan on December 19, 2014
I am delighted to announce that Zealot Networks has acquired a majority stake in AdRev/AudioMicro, Inc. for over $20 Million. This is the exit our shareholders have been working towards since the company was founded back in 2007. A special thank you goes out to Danny and the entire team at Zealot – we are excited for our future together. A super special thank you to the AdRev / AudioMicro team – Noah, Alex, Ben B, Peter, Brett, Jesse, Matt, Andrew, Ben P, Rod, Mischa, Yaroslav, Molly, Arlo, Josh P, Josh K, Christian, Oscar, Eric and everyone that contributed to the effort; and to our board of directors – Scott, Oleg, and Jamie. I am forever grateful for all of your hard work, dedication, trust, and support throughout the years. I can’t thank you enough for everything that you do – day in day out – to help make our company a success. I would also like to thank all of our clients, customers, and partners for entrusting us with your business throughout the years. Without all of you, none of this would have been possible.
Press coverage and details of the acquisition can be found at:
The Video Ink
Variety
Los Angeles Business Journal
TubeFilter
Stream Daily
by Ryan on December 18, 2014
I’m pleased to announce that we (
AdRev / AudioMicro, Inc.) have acquired music distribution company DashGo –
http://dashgo.com .
For details on the acquisition, check out this Billboard.com article —>
Highlights:
1. DashGo distributes music worldwide to iTunes, Spotify, YouTube Music Key, Pandora, Amazon, Google Play, Beats, Rdio, Rhapsody, Sound Exchange, Shazam, BeatPort and other music retailers and collection societies.
2. DashGo takes a hands-on approach in driving visibility, retail marketing and discovery strategy for client releases. The company’s robust dashboard gives labels the flexibility to easily manage repertoire, offering a premium catalog to music retailers while allowing rights holders to retain full control over their music.
3. DashGo has an incredible client base including David Hernandez’s DH1 Media, Coconut Records, Rock Mafia, and Katy Tiz, to name a few, providing an amazing foundation to nurture and expand upon.
4. DashGo was founded in 2004 by entrepreneur Ben Patterson. Ben will continue as CEO of DashGo (and the entire DashGo team including Tate Palmer and Jeremy Vilela will stay on as well). We will be expanding DashGo’s products services along with our YouTube rights management services at AdRev.
Happy Holidays! Hoping that 2015 is your best year ever.
-Ryan
by Ryan on December 18, 2014
I’m pleased to announce that as part of the 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, AdRev (AudioMicro, Inc.) has been ranked the 28th fastest growing company in North America. Thank you to our amazing team, customers, and clients for making this happen. We couldn’t have done it with you. I realize the blog has basically turned into a trophy wall which is likely annoying for subscribers. Please accept my apologies. I simply don’t have any time or focus theses days to enable myself to create detailed topical blog posts here but hope to get back to doing so some day.
