AudioValley has officially launches the business of its subsidiary Bridger. This new independent copyright management entity offers songwriters an efficient and cost-free solution for collecting their streaming royalties. Open to songwriters from around the world, Bridger collects and distributes the royalties generated by the streaming of musical works.

It is aimed at independent songwriters who are not members of a collective management organization, as well as songwriters who wish to benefit from a fully digital service as a complement to their membership of a collective management organization. The royalties cover the composition and writing of lyrics to a musical work. Every time a piece of music is played on a digitalplatform, it generates royalties.

To receive them, songwriters must join a collective management organization or an independent management entity like Bridger. To distribute their music on streaming platforms, artists generally go through distributors (such as Distrokid, CDBaby and Tunecore) who, in addition to distributing the tracks, collect and pay over the mechanical royalties to the artists. However, the mechanical royalties are not the performance royalties.Unknowingly, many independent songwriters are missing out on some of their musical royalties.