Big Deal Music Group Inks Deal With Exactuals

Exactuals, a provider of solutions for complex payments and metadata issues in the entertainment industry, has partnered with Big Deal Music Group. Exactuals will provide advanced analytics services to Big Deal via its payer and payee portal dashboards to glean trends from real-time data for its entire roster and enable complete transparency for its artists. The portals are built on Exactuals’ flagship Software as a Service (SaaS) platform PaymentHub, which also enables secure, accurate, transparent, and fast payments for complex transactions such as residuals and royalties.

“At Big Deal, we put our all into creating the most value for our artists and songwriters, whether that be through exposure, sync placements, royalties, or more,” said Perrie Jones, Jr., Vice President, Creative Development at Big Deal. “Our partnership with Exactuals helps us do just that, ensuring that our roster and business partners have 24/7 access to the most up-to-date royalty activity data.”

“Big Deal works with a large roster of highly talented artists who generate mountains of payment data. PaymentHub empowers Big Deal’s leadership to create actionable insights from this data,” said Mike Hurst, CEO and Co-Founder of Exactuals. “The heart of our mission at Exactuals is to simplify the complex financial side of the industry, allowing publishers and rights-holders to focus on landing placements and growing their business rapidly. We are thrilled to enable Big Deal to serve its client base with a truly differentiated service.”

With PaymentHub, Big Deal can track payment data and conduct in-depth analysis in real time for its entire roster, which includes artists and songwriters such as Beach House, John Ryan, Teddy Geiger, Jake Sinclair, Julian Bunetta, Caroline Rose, Dan Wilson, Dave Sitek, Kamasi Washington, Lucy Dacus, My Morning Jacket, Nick Lowe, Pavement, Rosanne Cash, Sharon Van Etten, Sleater-Kinney, St. Vincent, and more.