The regulator reads the ledger for free.
Every authority tasked with oversight of broadcast in a GlueArrow market is offered a read-only view of the same settlement ledger the platform runs on. The architecture is the policy.
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Playtunes
The streaming rail with a wallet attached.
A play is a unit. A unit is a share of what came in.
The royalty engine does not promise a fixed rate per play. It counts units, measures what the pool actually holds, and divides one by the other at the close of the period. Nothing is owed that was not collected first.
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How we will publish the books.
The platform runs on a ledger. The ledger is the source of every statement, every payout, every chart number. This is how, and how often, the books are opened for the reader.
4 min
Airplay is evidence.
The first artist on the GlueArrow network to receive a verified airplay statement, and what that statement actually contains.
3 min
The licensing rail — every play captured, every artist counted.
A settlement rail engineered to settle alongside the world's rights bodies, market by market. Every play is detected, timestamped, and ledgered today — payouts activate on a country-by-country go-live signal.
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How a play on the air becomes money in your wallet.
The trail from a broadcast — on radio, on television, on any connected medium — to a payout, explained without the technical internals, because the trail is what matters. In the first rollout markets, the default rail is mobile money; other markets use their local equivalent.
5 min
Playtunes — time-based streaming, paid on a Friday.
The streaming rail with a wallet attached is live. Upload once. Earn on a weekly cycle. ISRC, ISWC, CWR-ready — every play is a line an artist can see.
3 min
Is your music already in the GlueArrow DNA Registry?
Many active artists already have at least one song in the registry — especially in markets where the platform has begun rolling out. Here is how to check, claim, and prepare for an airplay statement.
4 min
Your work is on the air right now. Nobody is recording it.
A public note on the quiet loss absorbed across radio, television and every other broadcast medium — and why that absorption stops in the first markets the platform has rolled out in.
4 min