GoDigital Media Group

GoDigital Media Group
Private
Industry
  • Entertainment
  • Digital Media Technologies
Founded Santa Monica, California (2005)
Founders
Key people
  • Michael Peterson
  • Barry Daffurn
  • Manfred Van Ursel
  • Steve Scott
Number of employees
 60
Parent GoDigital​ Media​ Group
Subsidiaries
  • AdShare
  • Cinq Music
  • ContentBridge
  • GoDigital
  • Media Aggregators
Website www.godigitalmg.com
Footnotes / references
233 Wilshire Santa Monica, CA 90401 United States

GoDigital Media Group (GDMG) is an entertainment industry related holding company and venture-capital fund. GDMG retains varying levels of interest in firms that have been incubated from concept, funded in early stages, merged or absorbed through acquisition. Founded in 2005, GDMG specializes in technological solutions for digital-media content-management, delivery and the monetization of music, movie, television and theatrical assets.[1]

Background

GoDigital Media Group's (GDMG) core business originated as GoDigital Music Group, a music distributor; GoDigital Records, a record label;[2][3] and Symbolic Entertainment, a film studio.[4] Co-founder Logan Mulvey told the Wall Street Journal that a milestone for this group of companies was landing the digital strategies account for rapper Master P.[5] Other artists originally signed with GoDigital Records included Craig Range, FIN, Tom Langford, Terron Brooks, Adam Monroe, Plumbline and Forrest.[6]

In a 2008 reorganization, the firm created a subsidiary, under the shortened name GoDigital, which specializes in digital and video on demand movie distribution.[5] GoDigital's CEO Jason Peterson headed an in-house software development effort for digital supply-chain and rights management that became ContentBridge. Peterson assumed the position of CEO for ContentBridge Systems upon incorporation in 2010,[7] and Mulvey advanced from President to CEO at GoDigital.[8] GDMG's label was subsequent rebranded Cinq Music specializing in music distribution and rights management for recording artists.

Co-founder and CEO Jason Peterson is a director/producer and is licensed to practice law in the State of California. He has given several keynote speeches covering global digital distribution.[4][9] Co-founder Logan Mulvey serves on the Board of Directors for the Entrepreneurs' Organization and board of advisors of the San Diego Film Festival. He speaks regularly at film industry events.[10]

Co-founder Dave Lindsay served as GoDigital Media Group's CTO.

AdShare

AdShare
Headquarters Santa Monica, CA
Milan (Italy)
Panama City (Panama)
CEO Jason Peterson
Industry Entertainment
Services YouTube monetization
Parent GoDigital​ Media​ Group
Website AdShare.tv
Available in zh, pt, ko, ja, es, en
Native client(s) on

AdShare is a social media (primarily YouTube content) monetization service for entertainment industry rights-holders.

AdShare's engineers have partnered with the University of Southern California, Media Communications Laboratory, to further develop Fast Audio Matching (FAM) technology. Using as little as a 15 second audio sample, FAM identifies and provides a confidence scale of 1 to N (N being a perfect match). On the USC team are Ph.D. students Harshad Kadu and Jian Li and the project is led by Professor C.C. Jay Kuo, Dean’s Professor of Electrical Engineering – Systems.[12] Funding is provided by GoDigital Media Group.[13]

AdShare's service attributes are described as:[14]

Cinq Music

Cinq Music
Founded 2012
Headquarters Santa Monica, CA
Services Music distribution, analytics
Parent GoDigital​ Media​ Group
Website CinqMusic.com/
Native client(s) on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon.com, Google Play, Vevo

Cinq provides custom music distribution solutions for musicians, labels, and rights holders.[15] Cinq Music is descended, in part, from the now-inactive GoDigital Music Group—GoDigital Records, and the related film production company, Symbolic Entertainment.[16]

Cinq Music is integrated with the industry's top video content providers. Featured clients include:[17]

ContentBridge

ContentBridge
Type LLC
Founded 2010
Headquarters Santa Monica, CA
CEO Jason Peterson[4][9][18]
Industry Digital Rights Management
Products Content Management Software Systems
Parent GoDigital​ Media​ Group
Website ContentBridge.tv

ContentBridge (Content Bridge LLC) is a supply chain management (SCM), digital rights management (DRM), and encoding software provider for the entertainment industry.[19]

ContentBridge software was designed and developed in-house by the video on demand distribution company GoDigital for the film, recorded music and music publishing sectors.[20] Content Bridge LLC was launched as a separate entity in 2010, introduced as "Software as a service" (SaaS) in 2011, and signed an exclusive supply-chain management deal with GoDigital in July 2012.[21] ContentBridge 2.0 Beta was unveiled in May 2013.

The software can be divided into components for adaptability to split-rights situations[19] and for different deliverable and receivable requirements, such as language localization, media content formats, date-sensitive release coordination (Windowing) and royalty accounting.[20][22] Both WYSIWYG web-interface and Application programming interface (API) versions are available.[23] Approved encoding relationships include iTunes, Vudu, Dish Network, PlayStation Store, Comcast, and iN DEMAND.[24]

Content Bridge was awarded the 2014 Industry Leadership Digital Award (Digi Award) in recognition of its unique software support for the EMA, SMPTE Interoperable Master Package (IMP), CableLabs and UltraViolet digital supply chain standards.[25][26]

Year Category Institution or publication Result Notes Citation
2014 Industry Leadership ContentBridge Won EMA Digital Award (Digi Award) [25][26]

GoDigital

GoDigital
Type LLC
Founded 2008
Headquarters Santa Monica, CA
CEO Logan Mulvey
Products Video on demand distribution
Parent GoDigital​ Media​ Group
Website GoDigital.com
Main article: GoDigital

GoDigital is GoDigital Media Group's (GDMG) video-on-demand (VOD) subsidiary, which merged with Variance Films in January 2014, forming a new distribution entity, Amplify. Both firms will continue to operate as subsidiaries of Amplify, with ContentBridge handling digital distribution.[27]

GoDigital has distribution deals with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes.[28]

Video on demand partners include Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS.[28]

References

  1. ↑ Kay, Jeremy (30 August 2012). "Logan Mulvey, GoDigital". Screendaily. Archived from the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014. The CEO of digital distributor GoDigital talks to Screen about striking deals with film-makers to make the fast-evolving online space pay.
  2. ↑ "CORRECTING and REPLACING GoDigital Licenses Content to Qtrax; Next Generation Record Label Endorses Qtrax for Ad-Supported P2P Digital Distribution". BusinessWire - Brilliant Technologies Corporation. 19 September 2006. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  3. ↑ Kay, Jeremy (30 August 2012). "Logan Mulvey, GoDigital". Screen Daily. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 "Symbolic Entertainment". BackStage.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  5. 1 2 Kung, Michelle (11 January 2012). "GoDigital Ramps Up Digital Distribution Plans". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "www.godigitalartists.com". Archive.org. 29 December 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-29. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "GoDigital Media Group Makes Changes on Top; Promotes Logan Mulvey to President" (Press release). Santa Monica, CA: GoDigital Media Group. PRNewswire. 8 September 2010. Archived from the original on 20 June 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  8. ↑ "GoDigital Media Group Makes Changes on Top; Promotes Logan Mulvey to President" (Press release). Reuters. 8 September 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  9. 1 2 "Digital Hollywood Conference Schedule". DigitalHollywood.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  10. ↑ "Mentors: Digital Media". SXSW Schedule. SXSW Inc. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  11. ↑ "AdShare Manages Rights For Two Latin Grammy Winners/Five Nominees". Adshare Music Industry News Network. 22 November 2015. Archived from the original on 27 November 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  12. ↑ Huang, Chun-Ting (6 April 2014). "MCL and AdShare Developed Fast Audio Matching Technology". USC. Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014. The joint R&D team has continuously worked on system performance optimization to meet real-time processing requirements. The team also keeps developing a more advanced technique that handles sounds distorted by other methods such as pitch shifts, white noise, and instrument swaps.
  13. ↑ "USC MediaCommLab: Funded Research Projects". Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014. Project Titles and Periods: 1. “Digital fingerprinting for audio and music, Phase II” 1/1/2014-6/30/2014 2. “Digital fingerprinting for audio and music, Phase I” 7/1/2013-12/31/2013
  14. ↑ Jacobs, Alisa (18 June 2014). "Adshare™ Develops Innovative Digital Fingerprinting Software GoDigital Media Group Company Partners with USC on New Technology" (PDF) (Press release). Los Angeles, CA: USC - AdShare. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  15. ↑ "Cinq Music". Linkedin. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  16. ↑ "SYMBOLIC ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, LLC". WYSK. Archived from the original on 3 December 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  17. ↑ "Cinq Music". Cinq Music. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
  18. ↑ "Jason Peterson: Producer". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  19. 1 2 Rachel Abrams (10 March 2011). "Opportunity knocks for indie producers". Variety. Archived from the original on 24 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014. “The producer should get smart and work with the best person in physical, the best person in theatrical and the best person in digital,” said Jason Peterson, CEO of ContentBridge, a company that provides tools for content-centric businesses to internally manage their work and distribute it to global partners
  20. 1 2 Calacanis, Jason (14 December 2009). "Jason's Shark Tank: Content Bridge". This Week in Startups (YouTube). Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  21. ↑ "GoDigital Media Group to Deliver up to 2,000 Hours of Movie & TV Programming to YouTube" (Press release). GoDigital Media Group. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  22. ↑ Schwartz, Rob (4 July 2014). "Golden Melody Awards Turn 25: Global Industry Talks 'Road to Recovery,' Jason Mraz & JJ Lin Perform in Taiwan". Billboard Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014. He [Peterson] noted there are many problems with the way content providers operate. These include an inability to identify and optimize rights, an inability for rights holders to maintain serviceable master packages, a lack of supply chain standards, a lack of a global local language for exhibition, a lack of exhibition of standards and lack of ease of use of content.
  23. ↑ "ContentBridge: Products". ContentBridge LLC. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  24. ↑ Latchem, John (19 August 2014). "DEG Adds Five New Members". HomeMedia Magazine. Archived from the original on 5 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014. Content Bridge is an approved 'encoding' vendor for all major digital retailers, including iTunes and Google.
  25. 1 2 Latchem, John (9 October 2014). "'Breaking Bad,' Amazon, Content Bridge, Disney Among EMA Digital Honorees". Home Media Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014. The Entertainment Merchants Association Oct. 8 presented its “Digi” Awards for outstanding achievement in digital entertainment content, retailing, leadership and innovation to Sony Pictures' “Breaking Bad,” Amazon, Content Bridge and Disney. The awards were presented at EMA’s Digital Media Pipeline at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
  26. 1 2 Staff (10 October 2014). "EMA Hands Out Digi Awards to 'Breaking Bad,' Amazon, and More". GamePolitics.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  27. ↑ Chris Tribbey (26 February 2014). "ContentBridge Takes on Amplify’s Digital Supply Chain Duties". Mesa Alliance. Archived from the original on 21 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014. ...announced Feb. 25 that Amplify had signed an exclusive agreement for ContentBridge’s digital tools (covering asset management, packaging and delivery automation, and workflow management).
  28. 1 2 Gruenwedel, Erik (14 April 2011). "Indie Distributor Inks YouTube Streaming Deal". Home Media Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014. Santa Monica, Calif.-based GoDigital said it would supply about 2,000 hours of movies and TV programming to YouTube. The distributor has similar deals with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes, in addition to VOD agreements with Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS.

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