3scale Empowers Decibel to Faster Productize and Distribute Its APIs
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–Decibel, the semantic music metadata company and reportedly the fastest growing European company in the digital music sector, selected 3scale (www.3scale.net), the creator of Out-of-the-Box API management infrastructure, to launch, manage and productize Decibel APIs.
Decibel’s mission is to power the next generation of digital music services to enhance the consumer relationship with digital music and to become the industry standard for music metadata. In that regard, the Decibel APIs powered by 3scale carry the most in-depth music metadata data you’re likely to find anywhere with more than 3 billion pieces of data on 15 million tracks from 1.1 million albums by 300,000 artists.
These data-driven assets power the creation of Connected TV, mobile, tablet and web applications; and increase revenues, collaboration and communication through enhanced discovery and business intelligence for consumer electronics manufacturers, digital retailers, record labels and broadcasters.
3scale helps companies like Decibel to remove obstacles to adoption and to unleash the power of their API. “Because Decibel’s model is predicated on revenues as well as market penetration, we needed a provider that could integrate payment services simply, yet have a very simple to use free model,” said Gregory Kris, Decibel’s CEO. “Decibel chose 3scale because from a technical perspective, it’s faster, leaner and cheaper than the other players in the field. After extensive evaluations of various players, 3scale came out the winner.”
3scale powers 100+ APIs and has over 60,000 developers writing applications using these APIs.
“World-class innovators like Decibel choose 3scale to open, launch and manage their API because we offer years of experience in productizing our customers’ API capabilities,” said Guillaume Balas, 3scale CMO. “With our years of API management experience 3scale brings the expertise and solution to help companies distribute their APIs, develop new business models and create additional revenue streams.”
3scale works closely with customer tech- and business teams to provide optimal solutions for their needs by maximizing the impact and reach of their API among developers and business partners. For more information about 3scale, please visit www.3scale.net or contact sales@3scale.net.
About Decibel:
Decibel, a company based in the London digital hub of Shoreditch, supplies business-critical metadata to companies across the media and technology industries. This data can be found in digital retail stores, mobile applications, Connected TVs, streaming sites, recommendation engines and powering record labels and distributors across the digital music ecosystem.
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