Melody Pods was conceived from witnessing how many businesses out there were frustrated by how unreasonably hard in ways getting good music licensed into your business.
I have helped many clients and friends in business over the years who have been frustrated by having insistent letters from performing rights societies that they must pay them, and even to the point of threatening legal action without any basis, because they didn’t have a performing rights licensed with them.
They were frustrated at the regular threatening letters and how performing rights societies seemed to refuse to read replies or understand how they were using music not contracted to a performing rights society for royalty collection. The people on the end of the phone simply didn’t understand the business they were in, they were trained to understand there were no alternatives.
The simple reason in all cases was that they had no legal requirement to have a license for playing music they weren’t playing.
Not only that, I could see how businesses wanted to focus on their business instead of spending a lot of time discovering new music regularly and getting that music used in their business, especially if they needed different music styles in different zones or locations in their business.
The only solutions out there either fed them a batch of music where there was little choice of the music being played. The choice was, A,B,C or D so if you didn’t like a particular track or album in any of those options you as a business just had to gulp it down and move on. There was no choice to skip or make sure the tracks wouldn’t repeat.
At the other end there are services that give you a vast choice, but then you are in to spending a lot of time making your own choice of music, track by tracks which is costly on your time.
So we knew there was a need to build a business level service that helped businesses get the right music into their business in a simple way that didn’t cost them a lot of time and effort, without costly lock-in hardware, long term contracts, costly consulting and simplified the billing with one single bill that covers both a service and the licensing in one.
Welcome to Melody Pods. This is what we do.
Guy Lewis
Founder / Director
The Team
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Guy: Founder CEO. My aim is to spend as much time as possible listening to customers and partners. |
| Fran: Product management. Ensuring client features are included in the product development plan and managing the full product road map. |
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Jen: focuses on customer support. Whilst we all chip in with customer contact as a priority, Fran is there to make sure the right support is in place when it is needed. |
| Victor: Victor manages our development and makes sure any wizz ideas we have make logical sense before they become real living services. |
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Ruben: Product marketing. Ruben focuses on in-bound marketing projects. |
| To all our artists. We have brought together a talented group of artists through our Ambient Music Garden music library for which we are deeply grateful for their contribution and continued dedication and understanding to the complexities of combining networked technology with the emotive craft of music. |
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Simon, music development and auditioning. Ensuring clients have the right music based on personal requests and usage profiling. |
Why Melody Pods?
Trusted Business Operations and Culture: We strongly believe the Internet is a small place and so our reputation is very important to us. We ensure through legal contract and follow up checks that our music partners are providing us with music they are legally allowed to offer under our terms to then license to you for business environments with no additional performing rights required. That is the first critical element of our business model.
Growing Wide Ranging Music Library: our library is constantly evolving, we love hunting out new artists and new music. We also provide music from our in house production unit that provides music arranged specifically for background use.
World Class Service & Technology Partners: we have grown our experience of online support by serving thousands of customers with a wide range of technical challenges. We have collectively over forty years of Internet and telecoms experience in addition to mobile device and online technologies experience.
Contact Methodology: we won’t pester you with upgrades and up-sell sales strategies every day and every time to try to order something from us. We believe the happiest customers are those that are left alone to get on with what is important to them. The core to our approach is that businesses don’t have enough time to optimize the full benefits of music so everything we do we aim to reduce the time it takes to get music working effectively. Conversely, when our clients want to talk to us, we are ready and keen to listen and help. Our service is very flexible and we are keen to twist and tune it to fit the needs to develop long term relationships.
Top Class & Bullet Proof Technology: we test our technology before release thoroughly. We also have staging servers to test common software upgrades before adding them to our operational servers. We only release mobile device apps through the most trusted and most secure online app stores.
Bodmin,
North Cornwall,
PL30 3BQ
United Kingdom
Company No.04683874 |
VAT No.GB811397339 |
Business office hours are
Local Time is 9:46:20 (GMT)
