Stage

Stage is a London-based music technology company that develops cloud-native infrastructure for music data exchange, usage processing and royalty workflows. Its platform serves rights administrators, collecting societies, publishers, record labels and digital service providers, helping them connect fragmented consumption records with the rights information needed to calculate and distribute royalties.

The company's work addresses the variety and volume of data generated across streaming services and broadcast sources. Music usage arrives in different formats and through different delivery methods, creating substantial preparation work before reporting or rights matching can begin. Stage brings ingestion, standardization, validation and matching into a connected processing environment.

From usage data to royalty workflows

The platform accepts data through APIs, SFTP and secure uploads. Supported sources include services such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Deezer and iTunes, alongside television and radio logs. These are data sources integrated into the platform; their inclusion does not establish a direct client relationship.

After ingestion, the system normalizes records, applies rule-based tags and checks information against extensible schemas. These processes help rights organizations prepare varied source material for subsequent analysis and royalty processing. Usage reporting, trend analysis and forecasting provide further ways to examine the resulting data.

Stage's matching capabilities connect recording usage with musical works, repertoire databases, interested rights parties and share pictures. This supports the reconciliation of consumption records with work registrations and ownership information, an essential step in administering music rights across multiple services and territories.

The business focuses on enterprise music infrastructure rather than consumer entertainment production. Its technology is designed to replace manual processing pipelines with automated components that handle data exchange, quality control and rights reconciliation. Together, these capabilities support the operational work required to move from large collections of listening records toward more consistent royalty calculations.