The Performance section of the Insights Streaming Analytics platform provides the Reports and Filters for generating SoundExchange reports.
In this article, we will cover:
Performance Reports
Create a New Report
In the Run section, you can view past reports or create a new SoundExchange report.
When starting a new report, you'll choose the stations, month, year, and country.
Filters you set in the Performance Filters tab will affect these reports. For more information, see the Performance Filters section below.
Optionally, you can set up Email Notifications when your reports are ready. Choose to get just a notification or check the box to receive the full CSV report by email. You may enter one or more report email recipients.
View Previously Created Reports
Click on a previously created report to view it.
When viewing the report, you have the following options:
- Delete or rerun the report.
- Download the full report to CSV
- Download individual station reports to CSV
- Download excluded performances to CSV
Schedule Reports
The Schedule tab is similar to the Run tab. However, here you can set the First run date and choose to repeat the report on specific dates or run it just once.
SoundExchange CSV Report Files
SoundExchange reports are exported in CSV files and include the following information for each track played:
- NAME OF SERVICE - Name of the station
- TRANSMISSION CATEGORY - The single-letter code that describes your service as defined by SoundExchange.
- FEATURED ARTIST - Name of the artist.
- SOUND RECORDING TITLE - Name of the track.
- ALBUM TITLE - Name of the album for that specific track.
- MARKETING LABEL
- ISRC - International Standard Recording Code.
- ACTUAL TOTAL PERFORMANCES - The number of listeners who tuned in while the song played. For example, if the station played a song multiple times, this count would include both the 10 people who listened to it the first time and the 20 who tuned in the second time.
- PLAY FREQUENCY - The number of times that song was played by the station during the month.
Performance Filters
With the Filters feature, you can tailor your SoundExchange reports by excluding items like station IDs, jingles, talk shows, non-copyrighted content, or news segments. You can set filters for individual stations or apply them across the board.
Create a New Filter
Click the button to create a new filter.
First, select a station to which to apply the filters. Then, you will enter a Pattern. Filter patterns use regular expression syntax to exclude songs containing the specified words or phrases in their metadata titles or artist names.
For example, to exclude all tracks with the exact title "News Report", you would enter:
Alternatively, to exclude all tracks that contain "News Report" in their title, you would enter:
Here are some other commonly used regular expression patterns:
- To exclude tracks containing a specific phrase, enter:
.*Word1 Word2.*
- To exclude a phrase only when contained in track titles, enter:
^ - .*Word1 Word2.*
- To exclude a phrase only when contained in an artist name, enter:
.*Word1 Word2.* - ^
You can learn more about regular expression patterns here.
TIP: Avoid filters that are overly generic, such as "News" or "Midnight" to prevent indavertently excluding valid tracks that should be reported to SoundExchange.
All excluded tracks will not be included in the SoundExchange CSV file. To see which tracks were excluded from a report, you can download the Excluded Performances separately when viewing the Report Details (see above).
View Existing Filters
To view or delete an existing filter, just click on it in the list.
