{"id":2026495,"date":"2025-09-16T15:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2026495"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:36:23","slug":"openplay-raises-a-new-multi-million-dollar-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/openplay-raises-a-new-multi-million-dollar-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenPlay raises a new \u2018multi-million dollar\u2019 funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-250130\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>Rights-management firm OpenPlay has raised its latest funding: a \u201cmulti-million dollar strategic investment round\u201d led by Tracy Maddux. Readers may remember him as the former chief commercial officer at Downtown Music Holdings. Now principal consultant at Artes Management, an advisor to digital music, short-video and social-media firms, Maddux will be joining OpenPlay\u2019s board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other music-related investors in the round include Latin independent music company FaroLatino and David Alexander, founder of Africa-focused music publisher Sheer Publishing. That\u2019s a pointer towards OpenPlay\u2019s global ambitions for its tools, which labels use to control their recorded-music catalogues. \u201cThis new investment accelerates our ability to deliver that freedom to every rightsholder globally,\u201d said CEO Edward Ginis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company\u2019s announcement of the funding added that OpenPlay is already profitable, and has multiple new products set to launch \u201cin the coming months\u201d.<\/p>\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section>\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights-management firm OpenPlay has raised its latest funding: a \u201cmulti-million dollar strategic investment round\u201d led by Tracy Maddux. Readers may remember him as the former chief commercial officer at Downtown Music Holdings. Now principal consultant at Artes Management, an advisor to digital music, short-video and social-media firms, Maddux will be joining OpenPlay\u2019s board. 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