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WHO IS AUDIOSOFT?
AudioSoft is a dynamic technology company dedicated
to the development of innovative products and services
that provide worldwide digital copyright and marketing
data for the music industry

CONTENTS

CURRENT ENVIRONMENT
COMPANY VISION
COMPANY PROFILE
CLIENT ISSUES
AUDIOSOFT SERVICES

CURRENT ENVIRONMENT
Currently 128 million users of streaming audio software
Source: ARC Group

Over 75 million users have registered the Real Player

Source: ARC Group

1.5 million listeners of web radio, projected to rise to 50 million by 2004

Source: ARC Group

Over 3000 stations webcasting online

Source: Web-radio BRS Media

Over 11 million downloads of Real Jukebox

Source: Real Networks

Digital distribution to account for 15% to 20% of all music distribution by 2010
Source: MBI

COMPANY VISION
To be the Principal Trusted Copyright Information
Provider serving the Entertainment Industry, capturing
100% of all digital media events, thereby enabling the
digital media economy

A Global View of the Online Music Value Chain

COMPANY VISION

There is no current worldwide digital copyright

management system that captures territorial
usage, allowing rights holders to be compensated!

COMPANY VISION

A Global View of the Online Music Value Chain

with AudioSoft

COMPANY VISION

COMPANY PROFILE
Mission Statement
To rapidly achieve massive coverage of all music usage events on the
Internet, surpassing all competition in a drive towards our vision.
To provide highly accurate, credible reports to the Music Industry, through
the detailed capture of Internet Music Usage using State of the Art
technology.
To respect the Rights Holders and the Internet Music Providers by
actively supporting their interests within existing and forthcoming legal
frameworks.

Overview

Incorporated in 1996
Corporate HQ based in San Francisco
Offices in Geneva, London and Munich
Third round of financing raising $13 million closed in August 1999
Deal with Real Networks
Agreement with ASCAP
Strategic partnership with Macrovision (leading supplier of copy protection
systems to the video entertainment and personal computer software
industries)

COMPANY PROFILE

Copyright Expertise

Key personnel coming from:

International Copyright Organizations
Copyright Collection Societies
The Music Recording Industry

Member of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI)

Selected by the Open Rights System (ORS) consortium as a technical
partner for a digital copyright management project sponsored by the
European Commission

COMPANY PROFILE

Technology Expertise

ISRC code extractor from audio CDs developed

Territory tracking development
Plug-in development
Database design and development
Audio on the Internet

COMPANY PROFILE

AUDIOSOFT SERVICES
Tracking and reporting worldwide digital copyright and marketing
data to the Music Industry

The Copyright Solution

PLAYLIST DECLARATIONS
REPERTOIRE TRACKING

The Market Analysis Solution

CHANNEL PERFORMANCE
AUDIENCE PER TERRITORY

THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION!