Turn Your Music into Measurable Moments
SongMates Inc. is the parent company behind the PressPlay ecosystem—an artist-first platform that turns catalogs into interactive stories, community engagement, and licensed on-premise experiences. PressPlay is the primary consumer brand operated by SongMates Inc., which stewards rights, policy, and cross-network data.
An Artist-First Ecosystem
Programmable Media
Turn your catalog into interactive SongStories and get distributed at scale on PressPlay Radio & StrykTV.
Community & Venues
The PressPlay app lets fans create with your music, while venues run licensed in-store radio and trivia nights.
Rights & Revenue
ArtistLink provides transparent licensing, and RootNote preserves your legacy, creating a clear path to income.
We connect artists, audiences, and places
create → engage → licensed playback → data → income.
ArtistLink:
The Trust Layer
A nonprofit, artist-first platform for direct, transparent licensing between music creators and music users. It’s the trust and rights layer—making it easy for venues and retailers to use music legally, routes payments cleanly, and unlocks on-premise experiences that feed revenue and usage data back to artists.
RootNote:
The Context Layer
A living map of musical influence—artists’ stories, lineages, and fan memories captured in one place. It’s the context and discovery layer—informs programming for radio/TV, powers trivia and stories, and helping fans (and venues) discover music through human connections, not just algorithms.
PressPlay Studio:
The Content Engine
Creation tools to turn catalogs into interactive “SongStories”—short-form videos, living playlists, and radio-style segments with clips, trivia, points, and real-time analytics. It’s the content engine—scales campaigns for artists/labels/venues, generates measurable fan engagement, and outputs rights-ready media that flows to channels and in-store screens.
PressPlay App:
A Music Community
A social space where artists and music lovers interact—fans clip moments, play trivia, earn points, and share SongStories. It’s the community and distribution loop—turning fans into micro-influencers, drives traffic to Studio campaigns, and carries stories from phone to venue, closing the loop with data and demand for licensed playback.
A Closed Loop For Artists
From discovery and engagement to licensed playback and data, PressPlay creates a measurable, revenue-positive cycle.