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New Pex-powered PRO will focus on UGC music royalties

We know Pex best for its efforts to track music usage on platforms including YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, as well as podcasts.
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Pex launches copyright liability service for digital platforms

Here's an interesting intervention in the long-running debate about how liable internet platforms should be for copyrighted content uploaded by their users.
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Pex works with WIPO to tackle copyright dispute resolutions

Copyright dispute resolutions! Now that's something worth arguing about. Music/tech firm Pex wants to settle some of those arguments though.
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Copyright scanning startup Pex raises $57m funding round

We profiled Pex in March last year: the startup has developed technology to scan, fingerprint and index audio and video on a swathe of video streaming services and social apps. It has since shared some of its data on Instagram, YouTube and Facebook....
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77% of Facebook video views include music, claims Pex

Earlier this month, we reported on startup Pex's latest analysis of videos on YouTube, including its claim that music accounted for 5% of the total content on YouTube in 2019, but 22% of the views. Now Pex has published...
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Pex claims music was 22% of total YouTube views in 2019

Startup Pex has spent the last year scanning YouTube (among other platforms) and analysing the videos that are being uploaded and watched. Now it has published a report with its findings. It includes the estimate that...
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Pex dubs Cardi B the ‘Queen of Quarantine’ on Instagram

Music and video analytics company Pex has been looking at the most popular videos and GIFs across Instagram, Twitter and Giphy for March. One of the big winners is Cardi B, whose video views on Instagram have surged in recent...
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Music Ally Startup Files: Pex sees big music potential in UGC

For the last few years, LA-based startup Pex has been quietly scanning, fingerprinting and indexing every single piece of audio and video uploaded to open, public-facing platforms. It has accrued a whopping database of 20...
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Analytics startup Pex buys remix-clearance firm Dubset

We’ve been following startup Pex with interest, as it has built a database of music whose usage it can track on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and even podcasts for its rightsholder clients. Now the company has made an...
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Startup Pex can now scan Apple Podcasts for music clips

Pex isn’t a startup we’ve written much about for Music Ally thus far, but it’s one of the more interesting companies in the current music ecosystem – not just because of what it’s doing now, but for how its technology...
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Data firm Pex attempts to track music usage on YouTube

Video and music search engine Pex has weighed in to the value-gap debate, with new data based on its indexing of more than 6.1bn videos and songs on YouTube and other platforms. The aim of its latest study was to understand...