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Musician Shield

Prowess - Group F

A Prowess Project

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Shanaya K. Provhit

Gregory Morris

OUR TEAM

Product Marketing Specialist

B.Sc. in Marketing

MBA - Design Thinking

Application Analyst

Passionate about product and data.

MBA in IT Management

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Research & Problem

01

Market & competition

02

Product

03

Pricing

04

Assumptions

05

Project Outline

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Research & Problem

01

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Research

Music industry business model overview

  • Labels and artists
  • Revenue streams
  • Unit of economics
  • State of the current industry

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Labels

  • Facilitates music creation and production
  • Assists artists with distribution of music
  • Provides managers to support artists career
  • Provides financial support

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Revenue Streams

  • Live music is the number one revenue stream at $31 billion in global value
  • A variety of streaming services offers a range of revenue streams and growth for artists.
  • Licensing and sync provide provide traditional options like movies and commercials, but also video games such as NBA 2K being well known for its music.

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Unit Economics

  • For music sales, 10% is common, can be as low as 3%, but established artists can expect closer to 20%.
  • Artist who make their own CD’s/Digital downloads keep all the profits but generally only sell locally.
  • Streaming albums vary wildly with Spotify and YouTube having completely different payouts. However, YouTube offers the opportunity for artists to upload directly and keep all the profits.

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State of the

Current Industry

  • The rise of the independent artist: thanks to social media and streaming is causing the music industry to change.

  • Musicians are pushing for independence and greater control financially and artistically.

  • “This is wack. Yall steady tellin ppl they need a label/publisher/distributor to achieve success as an artist. Thats a lie. @carlcheryAM @DJBooth” -Chance The rapper <tweet>

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Problem

As an early stage independent musician, managing career is overwhelming and confusing in ever evolving complex music industry. There are multitude of revenue opportunities for musicians that are difficult to manage and takes away time from what they like to do the best: making music.

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While making music is trial and error, managing your music career shouldn’t be.

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Personas

  • Artist
  • Entertainment Lawyer
  • Financial Services Consultant

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Artist

Problem vs. solution

Product

Business model

Market & competition

Mercury is small

Mercury

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Entertainment Lawyer

Problem vs. solution

Product

Business model

Market & competition

Mercury is small

Mercury

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Financial Service Firm

Problem vs. solution

Product

Business model

Market & competition

Mercury is small

Mercury

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Solution

One platform that provides a holistic picture of all the revenue streams and professional resources for the independent artist so they are empowered to manage their time, money and musical career strategically.

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Market & Competition

02

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$2B

by 2028

MARKET SIZE TRENDS IN VERTICAL INDUSTRIES

Financial

Service Apps

$60B

in 2026

Music

Streaming

$32B

in 2020

Musical

Copyright

$11B

in 2022

Online Legal

Services

Budgeting apps provide access to managing finances, resources and credits lines giving user an opportunity to meet their financial goals.

Tracking revenue from many streaming services is crucial to tap into this growing market.

Copyright law is complex to understand and requires legal services to execute without flaws.

A dimension of providing legal services whether trademark or contract by making it accessible online.

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Financial

Service Apps

Music

Streaming

Musical

Copyright

Online Legal

Services

Musician Shield

Musician Shield will give

Independent artists access to a niche-specific budgeting app, legal services, educational resources and its most important feature the revenue streaming dashboard from different music streaming platforms.

WHY THESE VERTICAL INDUSTRY TRENDS ARE IMPORTANT FOR MUSICIAN SHIELD

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Them

Us

Musician Shield is a platform catered to musicians by giving them access to all of their revenue data on one platform and provide beneficial resources to grow their music career successfully.

Patreon - Helps build community for artists and direct payments from fans

Mint - Provides opportunity for people to manage their complete financial picture

Legal Zoom - Provides legal services to its clients

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Product

03

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Educational Resources

Professional Resources

Music Dashboard

FEATURES

Webinars and blogs on legal and finance and music industry Wiki

Access to music, legal, and financial professionals.

Interactive dashboard of digital revenue streams.

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Music Professionals

PARTNERSHIPS

Guest Speakers

Financing

Legal Support

Music Distributors

Music Industry

Music career development mentorship.

Professional informational or fireside chat webinars.

Financing for musicians.

Access to entertainment layers.

Music distributors that focus on indie artists.

Various product advertising.

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PRODUCT DEMO

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Musician

Shield

Artist

Dashboard

Wireframe

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Pricing

04

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Our Plans

Free 30-day starter plan access for new clients

Plans

Starter

Basic

Includes Starter Features

Premium

Includes Basic and Starter

Cost per month

$7.99

$14.99

$29.99

Music Stream Revenue Dashboard Access

4 streaming revenues

8 streaming revenues

16 streaming

revenues

Education Resources

Pay in full

Half-Price

Included

Legal and Financial Resources

Pay in full

Discount

Included

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Thank you for your time and feedback.

  • Shanaya & Greg

A Prowess Project

https://www.showprowess.com/

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