How does Bridger work?

Bridger collects copyright royalties from digital platforms. This is where your musical works are mostly played. Through exclusive deals and a strong network of partnerships throughout the world, we collect your copyright from all the major streaming platforms.

Bridger is a free service. There are no registration nor annual fees. You keep 90% of your royalties. Bridger is the most remunerative solution on the market for your copyright collection. Bridger is a new source of revenues. Guaranteed.

Music rights are two-fold: copyright and master right. Your digital distributor only collects and pays your master royalties. Bridger collects the missing part of your music rights and helps you to increase your revenues by collecting your copyright royalties generated on streaming services. Signing up with Bridger gives you an additional source of revenue on top of your digital distributor.

Even if you’re a member of a Collective Management Organization like Sacem or a PRO like BMI, you can join Bridger. You can either fully replace your current CMO with Bridger or use both services. Since Bridger only collects copyright royalties on digital platforms, we recommend that you keep your current CMO as the copyright collector for non-digital sources (TV, radio, Live) and join Bridger for digital copyright collection. Since the process is different for every CMO, send us an email and we will assist you in making the switch: hello@bridgermusic.io

Our ability to pay out copyright royalties is dependent on when the various streaming platforms share their usage reports and make their payments. This is usually done on a quarterly basis. As soon as platforms will start sharing usage reports on a monthly basis, Bridger will be able to align for artists’ royalties generated on streaming services.

Every agreement we have signed with a DSP grants us the ability to claim royalties from up to two years prior to the affiliation.

CD Baby Pro Publishing is a copyright administrator. It is not a collective management organization, nor is it a performing rights organization like Bridger. CD Baby is entitled only to collect artists’ mechanical rights or copyright as (self) publishers. As a European Independent Management Entity, Bridger is authorized to directly collect both mechanical rights and performing rights, with no intermediaries.

Songtrust currently enables artists to collect their rights in the offline area (broadcasting rights and public performance rights, for example), which Bridger doesn’t do. But Songtrust’s capacity is limited to the collection of mechanical rights and copyright as a publisher. As a European Independent Management Entity, Bridger is authorized to directly collect both your mechanical rights and your performing rights from all the digital platforms.