As you may or may not know by now, Beatport is launching a streaming service and moving their digital download store to the “Pro” version. The new site is not officially launched but they have sent us beta accounts for our labels to test the system, verify their catalog and brand their pages. Within your label account, under “Distribution Alerts” …
Feature request forms added to the system
We have added a “Feature Request” form to facilitate and simplify the process of submitting your priority releases to participating stores. Please take a moment to read in full and understand how to properly fill it out so you can improve your chances of being accepted based on each store’s criteria. You will find the “Features” option in your Distribution …
Update from the Beatport Team: New Content Delivery Guidelines for Features and Banners consideration 2014
This message is directly copied and pasted from an email sent to all suppliers/direct labels on Beatport, outlining the new features/banners request for consideration guidelines that are now in place. For all of those that keep asking us about it, please read carefully. Keep in mind this is the date WE need to send the information to them, so you …
Genre Options Updates
We’ve added some advanced options for those of you that want more control over the genre each track is shown in. This is relevant both for our Distribution customers and users of our Promo system. We have split the genre into three fields as follows: Beatport Genre – This is the genre that the track will appear in for EDM …
Distribution overview
In label engine the distribution section helps you to: create releases, add new tracks, manage vendors, check sales estimates, and much more. When you first click on the distribution link label engine will show you a list of all your releases and their release dates. From this panel you will be able to check the status of the release, remove …
Adding tracks / editing tracks
Once you have set up a release and you are ready to upload tracks from the ‘Edit Release’ page, scroll to the bottom of the ‘Add Tracks’ section and enter in each of the tracks to be included on the release. You can add additional tracks afterwards, but if you need to include more than five then select upload via …
Putting a release live
Once all the information for every track in a release has been entered, you will see the distribution status panel on the mid-menu bar turn blue. If it is red, then you have not filled in all the information correctly. If the bar is red check that you have all the correct data inputted, selected vendors, added artwork, uploaded the …
Sales Estimates
To view your sales estimates navigate to – Distribution > Sales Estimates. On this page you can use filters to ESTIMATE sales figures based on data returned to us by the vendors. These figures may not exactly match your final Statements due to voided transactions and exchange rate fluctuations. Sales estimates are only shown for Releases that have been distributed …
Setting territory restrictions
To set territory restrictions navigate to – Distribution > Edit Release. From this page, half way down on the right hand side will be a territories link. Once clicked you will be shown the Territory restriction options. Select the track you wish to apply restrictions to from the drop-down box and click the ‘>’ icon next to any Territory you …
Adding / editing a release
To add a release start by navigating to – Distribution > Add Release From this window select the label you want the release to be on from the ‘Label’ drop down menu. You can only choose labels that WE have provided you distribution access for. Once you have chosen a label you may start filling out the release details for …
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