Technical services

Sales tracking and analysis

Several types of sales tracking interfaces, developed to meet the needs of our distribution labels, are now offered to other labels and distributers. Extremely ergonomic, they offer quick and intuitive navigation, daily sales tracking on main platforms and the comprehensive analysis of financial revenues.

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The daily sales tracking interface Trends, allows labels to follow downloads and streaming on main platforms in a very precise way and to analyse the effects of all promotional activities (concerts, TV and radio broadcasts etc…) or marketing campaigns across the world in real time.

The Sales interface is fed by official financial reporting documents from the digital stores and makes it possible to comprehensively analyse all revenues generated from digital distribution, whether for sales and marketing managers or financial departments.

Other features have been designed to make calculating royalties and returns to collecting societies easier...

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Digital logistics

Our management and deliveries system has been internally designed and developed to meet the needs of our teams and is being constantly improved. Today it allows other distributors to control all deliveries or updates from its back office in a completely automated way, offering simple and effective management.

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Our clients rate our system as one of the most modern and effective on the market. It allows them to manage their entire office operations in a totally autonomous way, all through a web application.

Just some of IDOL’s delivery system characteristics :

Delivery from 3 data centres
24/7 delivery thanks to robots which organise deadlines
Automated back office updates
automated management of features that are specific to certain platforms: iTunes pre-orders, streaming rights/mixed Platform downloads, 24bits for HD platforms, YouTube monetisation...
Automatic price code matching
Our backoffice supports sales offers and rights by platform and/or territory

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Premium Digital

This service is used by IDOL’s labels as well as advertisers, brands and ad agencies for Premium audio operations: free album downloads for a specific target market.

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More specifically, our tool allows a certain number of people to download an album by entering a personal secret code and/or his or her email address on a dedicated (and customisable) URL, From a very simple back office, an operation can go live in a matter of hours.

Our offer includes :

Digitalisation and audio encryption and hosting on a secure server
Providing download codes
Hosting and publishing download page
Possibility to customize the download page when desired (CSS or HTML)
Code validation platform with IP address verification
Download tracking interface

Because of its catalogue and the quality of its labels, lDOL can go beyond technical support and offer original content for these operations.

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Automated reports processing

Designed and developed to automate the input and handling of financial reports across all services, our system has been constantly adjusted to adapt to new digital distribution models (audio streaming, video sites…) and corresponding volume measurements. It can also handle hundreds of millions of lines per month, both for us at IDOL as well as our clients.

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Play pages

We offer our labels embeddable promotional webpages to promote their releases. Play pages gather an HTML player, a biography, the album artwork, buying - streaming links and social network feeds. These pages are also available at an artist or label level, showing complete discography. They can also be made private with secured access, allowing users to authorize full-length pre-release listenings.

Hosting

Thanks to our infrastructure, currently composed of 3 data centres, today we offer content hosting services from audio to video.

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Back office video

Our tools are a vital element when it comes to optimising YouTube channel management. They make it possible to automate certain tasks (creating and sending “video pictures”) create promo tools (“video sampler albums”), and optimise referencing and monetisation (automatic metadata check, conflict management)...

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API Integration

Our APIs enable you to integrate our tools into your own applications. Create releases, manage rights and marketing offers, program content delivery to partners or track your sales directly from your interfaces. The APIs allow full data synchronization between your applications and our technical services (digital logistics, sales...)

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Online shops

We offer an online sales solution adapted to the current needs of our labels, in other words, one that can manage the invoicing of both hard goods (Cds, vinyls or any other products) and downloads, all from one same database and billing basket.

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