Indie labels face admin challenges

Back-office admin from distribution and DSP analytics to neighbouring rights and D2C sales remains a massive operational drain for indie labels, publishers, and self-releasing artists.

Absolute Label Services platform

Simon Wills (co-founder & MD of Absolute Label Services) and Paul Purcell (Director of platform) discuss how modern music operating systems replace clunky, fragmented tech stacks and endless open browser tabs.

The pain of gaps

Wills explains the need to unite everything in one platform: the pain was never one terrible platform; it was the gaps between all the perfectly good ones.

“the pain was never one terrible platform; it was the gaps between all the perfectly good ones.”

Proactive operations

Purcell explains that having visibility across all data in one place allows teams to be proactive, stop problems early, and enjoy working in the music industry.

“A lot of the time in operations, you’re reacting to issues after they happen, which is an incredibly frustrating experience for the team and the artist.”

Anthology platform

Anthology is the Music OS for modern rights holders that brings catalogue, distribution, neighbouring rights, content ID, registrations, physical operations, revenue, contracts, documents, insights and marketing together.

Future for indie labels

A three-person team can punch with major-label firepower using AI to kill busywork, not take jobs, and unlock hidden catalogue cash.