Nielsen Music and Jammber Announce Data Agreement to Track Songwriter Contributions

Jammber's production workflow platform will deliver a breadth of studio-level data to power Nielsen Music insights

New York, NY - July 11, 2017 - Nielsen Music, the industry's leading source for music data and solutions-driven insights, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Jammber to receive data pertaining to song creation at the studio level. Jammber, a graduate of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's Project Music, will provide Nielsen Music with data about musical works that will further enrich the company's industry tools and charts, creating new views for its clients. Nielsen Music will be unveiling additional information about these enhancements as the data is integrated into its systems.

Jammber is a platform that manages and tracks the entire music production process, streamlining workflow and bringing cohesiveness to what has traditionally been a fragmented process. Its technology allows collaborators to digitally sign off on important steps and helps labels and artists file the proper forms in minutes, rather than months.

Nielsen Music is committed to providing measurement and insights across the greater music ecosystem, said Erin Crawford, SVP, Nielsen Entertainment and GM Music. Working at the intersection of technology and music, Jammber is uniquely capable of collecting information that contributes to our overall mission.

The song creation data Jammber captures at the studio level will help power new charts, improve discovery on streaming platforms and will positively impact the lives of creatives all over the world by ensuring credit is given where credit is due, said Marcus Cobb, Founder and CEO of Jammber. Nielsen Music is best-in-class for providing insights globally through its deep understanding of industry data, which helps drive compensation for creators. With this exciting partnership, we'll be able to take that one step further.

About Nielsen Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen's Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content-video, audio and text-is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry's only global view of retail performance measurement. By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90% of the world's population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.

About Jammber Jammber is a pioneering, cloud-based workflow platform serving the music & entertainment industries with simplified, intuitive ways to track credits, payments, and paperwork throughout the creative life-cycle; easing operational burdens for creative organizations and their teams. Based in Chicago, Illinois and Nashville, Tennessee, Jammber has secured over $1.2 million in investor funding and is quickly becoming the de facto standard for premier entertainment organizations and award-winning creatives around the world. For more information about Jammber, please visit http://www.jammber.com.

Press Contact Brian Giglio, Rogers & Cowan, bgiglio@rogersandcowan.com

LINK:	http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/press-room/2017/nielsen-music-and-jammber...
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