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Music and media for venues. Revenue: music licence fees priced below what each venue earns.

Grip reads venue contracts, licence fees and device counts, site by site, and names the fees priced below what each venue earns, in AED.

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GBP 122.9 millionPaid in 2025 by UK shops, restaurants, gyms and offices to license the recorded music they play.

Proven at PPL

Source: PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited, UK music licensing company), PPL Annual Review 2025 (2026). UK music licensing company PPL collected GBP 122.9 million in 2025 for recorded music played in shops, restaurants, offices, gyms and hairdressers, up only 1% from GBP 121.4 million, as cost pressure weighed on hospitality and retail.

3 workflows

Where we start.

9 of 23 changes other music and media for venues companies made. Open one to see the company.

Price and margin

Fees that grow with venue earnings, licence costs written into every quote.

ReadsFee per venue and planPlays, footfall or takings per venue where measuredVenue list with countryType, seats, area or rooms

Offer venues a low base music fee that rises with what the system earns them, up to a cap.

Proven at TouchTunes Music

Source: TouchTunes Music Corporation, Form 10-K/A for fiscal year 2004 (filed 21 June 2005).

Add the yearly music licence fee for each venue type to every quote, and write in who pays it.

Backed by research

Source: Ministry of Economy and Tourism, United Arab Emirates, Collective Management Guide in Music (دليل الإدارة الجماعية في الموسيقى), version 1.1, issued June 2026, annex: tariff for collective management licences in music.

Buy music rights on a fixed yearly fee with headroom, and track your venue count against the cap.

Proven at Muzak Holdings

Source: Muzak Holdings LLC, Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 31 December 2006.

Sales and demand

Second devices sold to existing venues, music tested against till data.

ReadsVenues and the devices and services each pays forMonthly fee per venueRevenue and commission by channel and regionEnd customers served by each middleman

Sell venues you already serve a second paid device, before chasing brand new ones.

Proven at TouchTunes Music

Source: TouchTunes Music Corporation, Form 10-K for fiscal year 2004 (filed 31 March 2005).

Test selling directly to customers in one region, instead of through middlemen, then decide.

Proven at PPL

Source: PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited, UK music licensing company), PPL Annual Review 2025 (2026).

Test any music change against actual till and table times, not rules or surveys.

Backed by research

Source: Ronald E. Milliman (Journal of Consumer Research), The Influence of Background Music on the Behavior of Restaurant Patrons, Journal of Consumer Research (1986).

People and capacity

Chains given account managers, sales commission paid over the contract's life.

ReadsCustomer list with number of sitesSalesperson per accountCommission paid per contract and dateContract start and end per venue

Give large chains their own account manager, and leave single sites to a local team.

Proven at Muzak Holdings

Source: Muzak Holdings LLC, Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 31 December 2006.

Pay sales commission over the contract's life, and recover it if the venue leaves early.

Proven at Muzak Holdings

Source: Muzak Holdings LLC, Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 31 December 2006.

Write staff who hear the music all shift into the playlist brief, not just customers.

Backed by research

Source: Greg R. Oldham, Anne Cummings, Leann J. Mischel and James M. Schmidtke (Journal of Applied Psychology), Listen while you work? Quasi-experimental relations between personal-stereo headset use and employee work responses, Journal of Applied Psychology (1995).

The money at stake.

Public figures, each with its company and year. An estimate is marked.

USD 51.9 million

A US cinema advertising company's drop in cash from operations in 2025.

Proven at National CineMedia

Source: National CineMedia, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 1 January 2026 (filed 26 February 2026) (2025). National CineMedia's cash from operations fell USD 51.9 million in 2025, mostly from a USD 27.8 million swing in deferred revenue and USD 19.5 million less collected from receivables, not from weaker trading.

USD 49.2 million

A US scoreboard and display maker's operating cash in fiscal 2026, half the year before.

Proven at Daktronics

Source: Daktronics, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 2 May 2026 (filed 24 June 2026). Daktronics' cash from operations fell to USD 49,217 thousand in fiscal 2026 from USD 97,713 thousand, although it stayed profitable, because receivables and contract assets on venue projects grew.

What we stand on

01Money first

Every project shows the revenue, cost or cash it is worth, in your currency, from your own files, before you agree to it.

02Every project has proof

Every project runs on a client's Grip, was designed on our own Grip, or comes from a play a named company published, with the document we read it in.

03Your systems as they are

We read the systems you already use. Nothing to move, replace or clean up first.

04Value and money found in 2 weeks

A two-week pilot on one department, your first project live and its money delivered by Day 30, then one fixed monthly fee.

Questions

What music and media for venues companies ask first.

Three answers, each with one public figure, its company and its document.

Question 1How can AI reduce underpriced venue licences in music and media for venues?

AI reads venue contracts, licence fees and device counts, site by site, and names the fees priced below what each venue earns, in AED. For scale: USD 51.9 million, A US cinema advertising company's drop in cash from operations in 2025 (National CineMedia).

USD 51.9 millionA US cinema advertising company's drop in cash from operations in 2025.

Proven at National CineMedia

Question 2What does an AI transformation programme in music and media for venues start with?

It starts with the revenue, cost and cash you are losing today, read from the systems you already use. One workflow goes first, usually price and margin, read from fee per venue and plan and plays, footfall or takings per venue where measured. For scale: USD 49.2 million, A US scoreboard and display maker's operating cash in fiscal 2026, half the year before (Daktronics).

USD 49.2 millionA US scoreboard and display maker's operating cash in fiscal 2026, half the year before.

Proven at Daktronics

Question 3How fast do music and media for venues companies see results from AI?

A two-week pilot on one department finds the value and money in your own data before you commit. Your first project goes live, and its money is delivered, by Day 30.

Music and media for venues. Revenue: music licence fees priced below what each venue earns.

Where we start.

Price and margin

Sales and demand

People and capacity

The money at stake.

What your Grip looks like.

What music and media for venues companies ask first.

Question 1How can AI reduce underpriced venue licences in music and media for venues?

Question 2What does an AI transformation programme in music and media for venues start with?

Question 3How fast do music and media for venues companies see results from AI?

Start with one workflow.