🤖 Coming soon: AudioGuardTM, plus our latest track search release, and more news

Trends and releases for the fourth week of January 📈📊 January 23, 2023 [SourceAudio]( Weekly insights, ideas, and tools to help you grow your music business and optimize for the future. HIGHLIGHTS SO FAR IN JANUARY 1. More new AI products are coming your way including our proprietary music protection solution! [AudioGuard]( protects your music from unauthorized downstream AI by completely disrupting any attempted sampling & reproduction! Don't want your catalog to be used for training/sampling/reproduction purposes? AudioGuard™ will "guard" your music for you out there in the wild.🔒 2. TikTok + Sonic Search is here! Drop TikTok URLs into Sonic Search to find musically similar results, now. Data shows TikTok has quickly become a primary source for music discovery, playlist creation, and music consumption by users everywhere. Now you can find music with music from YouTube, SoundCloud, and TikTok with Sonic Search! Up next: Spotify! 🔍 🔊 3. Our [AI Metadata]( is skyrocketing music companies' productivity and catalog discoverability. Don't get left behind! Contact us to get your to get your best-in-class metadata tags that auto-update with the latest trends for life! ⚡️ 🚀 4. This Week in AI: The latest news on AI and music including TikTok's new AI music ventures and the expanding need for AI in digital marketing. 🤖 💬 5. Check out our Weekly “TRENDS & INSIGHTS” snapshot at the bottom that provides you with valuable, real-time data from hundreds of thousands of pro users across the platform to help you shape your business strategy week to week! 📊 UPCOMING RELEASE: AUDIOGUARD Protect your assets with AudioGuard™ from SourceAudio – COMING SOON in 2024 🔒🛡️ Don't just ask AI companies to leave your music alone, PROTECT it. AudioGuard™ is our reliable, easy-to-implement solution that renders music totally unusable by AI training models and methods today. Here's how it works: Unauthorized downstream AI programs that crawl the web may exploit your intellectual property under the guise of "fair use." When you enable AudioGuard™ on your tracks, our propriety solution shields your tracks with our proprietary methods and technology, rendering any extracted data completely useless. Just like our AI metadata, this groundbreaking, best-in-class solution is continuously auto-updating, so your tracks are safe from all the latest AI and machine learning models – now and into the future. Plus, AudioGuard will be available via the [SourceAudio API]( so anyone can leverage our technologies in their own third-party systems and UI. Your creativity deserves secure protection, and SourceAudio is committed to delivering industry-best tools for the ever-evolving digital landscape. Get on the waitlist here to be notified when AudioGuard goes live! 👇 [Contact us about AudioGuard]( FEATURE RELEASE: SONIC SEARCH FOR TIKTOK Find a song or remix on TikTok that's EXACTLY the vibe you're looking for – let Sonic Search find you the most similar tracks, instantly. 🔍 🔊 Try it for yourself, here's how: 1. Grab the URL from [this remix]( we found and love on TikTok: [Listen Now »]( 2. Go to our ["Artemis" Demo site and paste the URL]( of that TikTok video into the search bar. 3. Play through the list of songs our Sonic Search AI sim search features returns to you. Pretty much nails the mood, style, vibe, and sound completely, right? In addition to TikTok links, Sonic Search can find matches from YouTube, SoundCloud, or from a local file. Just click the AI icon on the right end of the search bar, then either paste a link or drag-and-drop a file, hit enter, and voilá – your search results appear with the most sonically similar tracks at the very top! Available on any Catalog Manager site, Music Supervisor site, Network site, or via the powerful [SourceAudio API](. Coming soon – Sonic Search for Spotify links! 🎧 [Read about all our AI search tools]( THE UNBEATABLE VALUE OF AI METADATA 🏷️ AI metadata is changing the game for music companies around the world – tag your tracks now ICYMI: our [11 reasons to AI tag your tracks with AI metadata]( provides a thorough guide to the many benefits of AI tagging. Maximize your catalog's discoverability for life with metadata that continuously updates with the latest search trends and terminology. With continuously evolving tags, your back catalog stays fresh and exciting forever. Plus at just $0.40/track for existing (and new!) SourceAudio clients, it's the best value around by far! You'll get vastly superior tags on an unbelievably fast turnaround and at a fraction of the cost compared to manual tagging or alternative solutions. You say, "It's better AND costs less? We'll take it!" Get a free tagging sample set now by sending us a playlist from your SourceAudio site at the link below. We know the accuracy of the results will blow your mind! 🚀 [Set up a demo now]( 🤖 💬 AI NEWS + QUICK HITS OF THE WEEK 🔊 TikTok is testing a new “[AI Song]( feature that lets users create songs from prompts. TikTok has already released a free-to-use, AI-powered music production app called Ripple, as well as its own subscription-only music streaming service, TikTok Music, intended to compete with Spotify and Apple Music. 🚀 Music marketers will use AI to supplement their targeting when [cookies aren't there](. As Google phases out third-party tracking cookies on Chrome, AI is set to become even more crucial for predicting user behavior. 🎸 "Using AI to artistically express yourself and make better music, I think, is fantastic ... I want to look at it as just another color on your palette." Nile Rogers talks AI and more in [his interview with Euronews](. 📈 WEEKLY TRENDS AND INSIGHTS REPORT 🔍 Total B2B/professional music searches: 140,274 (📉-28K) 🔎 Most common search terms globally: instrumental, wind, explosion, slide whistle, latch 🔎 🇺🇸 Most searched terms by U.S. Broadcast/Streaming networks: tension, hip hop, romantic, love, action 📂 Total song downloads: 391,014 (📉-2K) 🏷️ Most downloaded tags: comedy, score, hit, house, dramatic ⬆ Total new song uploads: 177,162 🏷️ Most common new tags: confident, fun, building, energetic, dramatic 🎬 New playlists/projects created: 1,975 🎵 Total songs hosted: 27,818,567 ✏ Total writers: 411,300 💿 Total publishers: 114,393 Questions about AI metadata, Sonic Search, or any of our other powerful site features? Reach out to [support@sourceaudio.com](mailto:support@sourceaudio.com?subject=&body=) [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( SourceAudio Trends 9415 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232 [Unsubscribe](