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SpiralFrog Licenses IODA's Extensive Independent Music Catalog

Posted on: Tuesday, 4 September 2007, 12:06 CDT

SpiralFrog, a free ad-supported online music service, and IODA, a leader in digital music distribution and marketing, today announced a licensing agreement to make IODA's catalog available on SpiralFrog.

SpiralFrog is an online music and entertainment destination that combines music discovery tools with free and legal downloading of audio and video files. SpiralFrog shares its advertising revenue with music owners, creating a new revenue source for music owners and a viable solution against piracy.

IODA represents a rapidly expanding roster of close to 1,000,000 tracks from thousands of independent labels around the globe. The IODA catalog ranges from established classics to modern up-and-comers in all genres, including favorites such as Animal Collective, Fall Out Boy, London Symphony Orchestra, Mac Dre, Blackalicious, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, Jimi Hendrix, Broken Social Scene, Cat Power, Aventura, Jamie Cullum, Heartland, Willie Nelson, Seu Jorge and Ravi Shankar.

"It is our mission to attract young people away from illicit file sharing networks by having a superior user experience, and a very extensive catalog of digital music," said Joe Mohen, SpiralFrog's chairman and founder. "IODA has a gigantic catalog with many high quality artists."

"With this new partnership IODA can provide our labels and artists with an innovative opportunity to monetize their content," said IODA founder and CEO Kevin Arnold. "SpiralFrog offers a creative new medium and a market driven solution to digital piracy."

About SpiralFrog

Headquartered in New York, SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com) is a Web-based advertising-supported music experience that combines music discovery tools with free and legal downloads of audio and video content licensed directly from the catalogs of the world's leading music owners. SpiralFrog offers music-lovers a compelling alternative to illicit file-sharing and pirate sites, with a secure environment for them to satisfy their unyielding passion and thirst for music and entertainment information at no cost except for their time and attention.

About IODA

IODA -- the Independent Online Distribution Alliance -- is the industry-leading digital distribution, marketing and technology solutions company for the global independent music community. IODA provides comprehensive services to record labels, physical distributors, and artists, including license negotiations; media encoding and metadata management; and royalty payment administration and reporting. The company also offers promotional support through a dedicated marketing division and Promonet™, a promotional distribution network that provides qualified podcasts, blogs, and other promotional sites with access to pre-cleared, legal music and other promotional assets from IODA's labels. IODA was named one of FORTUNE magazine's 25 Breakout Companies for 2005.

The company's web site is located at http://www.iodalliance.com.

Source: Business Wire

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