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Audio Ideas Guide is a King City, ON-based company in the Media and Entertainment sector.
Niall Kennedy's Weblog is a San Francisco, CA-based company in the Media and Entertainment sector.
Roynat is a Oakville, ON-based company in the Media and Entertainment sector.
Merlin, the virtual 4th major, represents the world`s most important set of independent music rights. Merlin commenced operations in May 2008 and since then has struck deals with a number of digital services including Rdio, Spotify, Sony Music Unlimited, Deezer, Google Play and Simfy. Merlin seeks to ensure its members have effective access to new and emerging revenue streams and that their rights are appropriately valued and protected. Merlin represents by far the largest and most compelling basket of global independent rights in the world and so offers the most efficient means of licensing this repertoire. Members include Rough Trade, Warp Records, Epitaph, Naïve, Tommy Boy, One Little Indian, Yep Roc/Red Eye, Kontor New Media, Beggars Group, Merge,!K7, PIAS, Domino and Koch/E1. Their artists include Vampire Weekend, Adele, Arcade Fire, The xx, Neko Case, The National, Tom Waits, Spoon, Grizzly Bear, DJ Khaled, Dorrough, Tiësto, Scooter and many, many more. A global organization, its members` market share in the US alone is reported at around 10%, equivalent to that of the smaller major labels, whilst in Europe member labels released 72% of the top 60 independent albums issued in the past three years and commanded a 11% digital UK market share in 2009. Most recently, streaming service Spotify publicly announced that Merlin repertoire represented over 10% of the usage on its service.
Live Planet is a full stack end-to-end immersive capture, management, distribution and syndication platform for immersive video. Live Planet takes all the hard work out of capturing and delivering stereoscopic VR and 360° video, whether live or recorded, reliably and flawlessly, enabling the world`s creators to focus on doing what they do best: create amazing VR and 360° video content -- easily, practically, and affordably. Live Planet, Inc. operates out of Los Angeles and San Jose, CA. The system contains three components: 1. The Live Planet stereoscopic and 360° camera - elegantly designed, captures 4K, stereoscopic, 360° video complete with onboard real-time stitching and encoding. 2. The Live Planet video cloud - an intelligent cloud-based software suite for managing, transcoding and optimizing delivery to all VR and 360° video platforms. 3. Live Planet VR viewer software - clients for all platforms that work with the Live Planet video cloud to deliver optimized VR and 360° video content every time. Halsey Minor, who founded and built CNET Networks into one of the Internet`s most visited destinations and a NASDAQ-100 company, founded and leads Live Planet. While building CNET, Halsey also produced 5 television shows for cable television, including two hours of weekly programming on then #1 rated USA Network. Minor is also founder of Uphold and previously founded Google Voice, OpenDNS and NBCi. He was also a co-founder of Salesforce.com. Additionally, Halsey created the leading web publishing platform, Story Server, which was spun out of CNET as the highly successful company, Vignette.