Revelator 2024 Product Updates: Built for You

Twelve months. Twelve updates.

One mission: to make your music business smarter, faster, and more scalable.

This year wasn’t about us. It was about you—the creators, labels, and distributors driving the independent music industry forward and turning music into moments that matter.

From millions of TikTok creations to billions of streams, you’ve elevated independent music to new heights.

We kept pace: paying over 56,000 rights holders quickly and accurately, and giving you tools to scale your business smarter and faster.

Here’s how we delivered:

1. Redefining the User Experience

UI Refresh: A Modern Look for Enhanced Usability

We’ve reimagined the Revelator Pro interface to make your workflows smoother, faster, and more intuitive. With a cleaner design and optimized navigation, you can find what you need, when you need it, and focus on growing your music business.

Login Designer: Scale Your Brand Your Way

Your brand is your identity, and Revelator Pro’s Login Designer lets you deliver a fully branded user experience. From layouts to custom visuals, this tool allows white-label clients to craft a seamless and professional experience.

Choose custom layouts, upload videos or images, and personalize greetings, buttons, and Terms and Conditions. This feature enables you to reinforce trust, showcase your professionalism, and create a branded environment that your partners and clients can count on.

In-App News Launch: Stay Informed Without Leaving the Platform

Introducing In-App News, your centralized hub for updates, announcements, and best practices. Access the latest news about platform updates, industry trends, and tips to maximize Revelator Pro—all without leaving the platform.

In-App Release Notes: Transparent and Timely Updates

Stay ahead with In-App Release Notes. Every update and feature enhancement is now detailed within the platform, ensuring you always know what’s new, how it works, and how it benefits your music business.

Table Customization: Tailored Workflows

Managing catalogs is effortless with Revelator Pro’s powerful table customization features. From drag-and-drop columns to advanced filters, this update ensures you can organize data your way, saving time and boosting productivity.

Clients Section Enhancements

We upgraded the Clients Section to give parent accounts a comprehensive view of all associated portals and team members.

Features include additional columns for Artist Portals, Label Portals, and Member counts, along with enhanced search and filter tools. A dedicated navigation section provides full visibility into connected portals and teams, streamlining management and improving oversight. With these enhancements, managing your clients has never been clearer or more efficient—empowering you to focus on growth while staying in full control of your ecosystem.

New Revelator Website: Designed for Discovery

We launched a new marketing website that highlights everything Revelator has to offer. Discover how Revelator Pro empowers music businesses around the world.

Explore the Website

2. Smarter Catalog and Metadata Management

Metadata Enrichment: Enhanced for Staying Ahead

Metadata is the foundation of your music catalog, and Revelator Pro has redefined how you manage it. This year, we expanded our metadata enrichment capabilities to meet DSP requirements, including Apple Music’s enhanced standards for contributor credits.

With Revelator Pro, you can capture and manage comprehensive metadata, including detailed roles for Performing Artists, Composers, Lyricists, and Production & Engineering contributors. Built-in validations ensure every track includes required credits, such as lead vocals, composers, and producers, preventing distribution delays. By meeting these evolving standards, you can maximize revenue opportunities, enhance listener experiences, and maintain a competitive edge.

Enhanced Track Information: Optimized for Compliance and UGC Monetization

We’ve introduced required fields for Track Properties and Track Type to enhance metadata accuracy and ensure compliance with new DSP requirements. This update provides a clearer, more detailed description of sound recordings and their associated compositions.

The enhanced track information speeds up the metadata validation process, ensuring tracks are suitable for content ID and UGC platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Meta. It guarantees that only fully-owned, exclusive, and distinct tracks are eligible for claiming UGC videos, safeguarding your catalog and protecting your rights. These changes not only reflect new TikTok metadata requirements but also optimize your catalog’s monetization potential and streamline the inspection process.

Metadata Inspector: Eliminate Errors, Maximize Revenue

Revelator Pro’s Metadata Inspector ensures your catalog meets DSP standards, minimizing errors and maximizing revenue opportunities.

This tool automates error detection, validates data, and prevents distribution delays caused by incomplete metadata.

ISWCs

Easily add, search, and view ISWCs, providing valuable traceability from master recordings and their associated works and publishing metadata.

Smarter Takedowns: Protect Your Catalog

Respond quickly to changes with Revelator Pro’s Smarter Takedown Workflows. Selectively remove individual tracks or entire releases with ease, ensuring compliance and catalog integrity.

Beatport Genre Selection: Precision for EDM Artists

Revelator Pro now supports Beatport-specific genres, ensuring precise delivery for electronic music artists. Get your tracks in front of the right audience and on editorial playlists tailored to the EDM market.

3. Best-in class Financial and Rights Management Tools

Enhanced Financial Tools: Stay in Control

Managing royalties and payments is simpler than ever with Revelator Pro’s updated Payments Table, Transactions Page, and Contracts Page.

These enhancements provide full visibility and control over financial operations. View detailed payee splits, track transactions, and manage contracts with intuitive layouts and customizable filters, reducing complexity and ensuring accuracy.

Royalty Tokenization: Future-Proofing Payments

Revelator Pro’s Royalty Tokenization uses blockchain-based transparency to revolutionize royalty management. Secure, smart-contract-backed payments ensure real-time accuracy for rights holders.

This feature reduces disputes, enhances trust, and introduces scalability to future-proof your royalty operations.

VIP and Payee Filters: Prioritize High-Value Content

Focus on what matters most with VIP and Payee Filters. These tools streamline quality control, letting you highlight and manage priority content for your top clients and artists.

4. Data-Driven Insights with Powerful Analytics

Consumption Analytics: Unlock Performance Trends

Revelator Pro’s Consumption Analytics tools provide a comprehensive understanding of how your catalog performs across streaming and revenue platforms. Monitor trends, compare insights, and refine your strategies with precision.

• Amazon Downloads Data: Analyze download trends alongside streaming data for a holistic view of your catalog’s consumption.

• Quarterly Insights: Evaluate performance trends over quarterly periods, enabling actionable decision-making.

• Expanded Filters: Dive deeper with advanced filters, including Distributor, Subscription, Discovery Type, and Source of Stream.

• Optimized Multi-DSP Source Data: Seamlessly compare Source of Stream insights across multiple DSPs to fine-tune your audience engagement strategy.

Revenue Analytics: Granular Insights for Financial Growth

Revelator Pro’s Revenue Analytics tools let you break down and analyze your income streams to optimize financial management and maximize revenue potential.

5. Creative Empowerment and Integrations

Dolby Atmos Support: Next-Level Audio

Revelator Pro now supports Dolby Atmos, allowing you to distribute multidimensional sound experiences that captivate listeners. Editorial playlists and cutting-edge audiences demand superior audio formats—this feature positions your tracks to meet that demand.

Masterchannel Integration: AI-Driven Mastering

Revelator Pro’s full integration with Masterchannel lets you achieve professional-grade mastering directly within the platform. Powered by AI, this tool optimizes audio quality in seconds.

Deliver polished, radio-ready tracks effortlessly while saving time and ensuring your releases meet the highest sound quality standards—all without switching tools.

Feature.fm Integration: Amplify Your Promotion

Seamlessly manage smart links and pre-save campaigns with Revelator Pro’s Feature.fm integration. This feature connects your distribution and promotional workflows, allowing you to manage campaigns and measure engagement directly within the platform.

Grow artist visibility, promote new releases, and gain real-time insights—all in one place.

Marketplace Launched: Unlock New Tools

This year, Revelator Pro’s Marketplace launched, bringing a suite of innovative tools to empower your music business:

• EVEN: Enable artists and labels to sell their music directly to fans, offering a personalized and independent platform for releases and merch.

• Audioshake Unlock AI-powered stem creation for remixes, licensing, and Dolby Atmos distribution.

• Roex: Simplify your multitrack audio management and collaborative mixing projects.

• Flou: Streamline your music contracts with AI-enhanced templates and e-signature solutions.

• Easysong Secure mechanical licenses for distributing cover songs hassle-free.

• Waves Audio Plugins Elevate your music production with advanced tools from one of the most trusted names in digital audio plugins.

• Groover Help your artists engage directly with curators, radio stations, and blogs to receive valuable feedback and promotional support.

• Harmix AI Leverage AI-driven tools for music composition and arrangement, transforming creative workflows.

Plus, new tools to expand opportunities and streamline your operations:

• Muze Art

• Diggers Factory

• DotMusic

• Easy Song Cover Licensing

• SoundCampaign

• Tribecast

These integrations expand your creative possibilities and open up new revenue streams for our clients and their users.

6. Expanding Scaling Capabilities

API Docs Website: Simplifying Integration for Developers

We launched our dedicated API Docs Website to make integrating with Revelator Pro seamless and straightforward. Designed for developers, this comprehensive resource provides clear documentation, code examples, and step-by-step guides to help you:

• Get Started Quickly
• Streamline Integrations
• Enhance Flexibility

Visit the API Docs Website

7. What’s Next?

2024 was just the beginning. Looking ahead to 2025, we’re bringing even more tools to help you scale your business smarter and faster.

Coming Soon:

• YouTube Multi-Channel Network (MCN) management for channel tracking and revenue sharing.

• Deeper analytics tools for actionable insights.

• AI-driven tools to streamline workflows and enhance creativity.

We’re building the future of music technology, with your success at the heart of everything we do.

Here’s to an even smarter, faster, and more scalable 2025!