We make music rights work for brands, creators and rights holders through tech.
Which company you need depends on one date: the day the ad goes on air.
Price and clear a track before your ad goes on air. For producers and brands.
If it's disputed
Independent expertise in disputes over music and brands. For legal teams, rights holders and brands.
Aired without a license
Find the use. Build the evidence. Recover the value. For artists, songwriters, publishers and labels.
Even before it exists
Creative music strategy and execution for brands, from the same founders.
- Before it airs: Charlie.
- If it's disputed: Sync Valuations.
- Aired without a license: TrackShield.
- Even before it exists: Howl.
The companyRingo is the company behind all three. Which one you need depends on one date: the day the ad goes on air. Before that day, Charlie tells you what a track costs and how long clearance takes. After it, Sync Valuations brings facts and value to a dispute, and TrackShield recovers the fee when a brand used music without a license. Sync Valuations works for either side and stays out of every matter TrackShield handles.
Some partnerships start in boardrooms. Ours started in a hardcore/punk band.
Marcel Alexander Wiebenga
Co-founder
Played drums in Oil and Das Oath. Joined Sizzer in 2008 as employee number one and left as a partner to start Howl and Ringo. He has been putting music in ads ever since.
Nicholas van den Doel
Co-founder
Sang in Oil. Started Jet Black Records and the Amsterdam Recording Company, ran Sizzer as managing director and sits on the board of Music Tech Netherlands. In sync licensing since 2008.
Portraits: Titia Hahne
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