Music licensing for multi-site operators, without the multiplying bills
Hotels, shopping centres and national retail chains face the same licensing law as a corner café, but multiplied across every site, zone and tariff. Here's how the costs and the complexity scale, and how Melodial Plus replaces it all with one platform.
Every location is a public performance
Playing recorded music where customers or staff can hear it is a public performance. In nearly every country that requires a licence, whether the music comes from the radio, a TV, a CD or a streaming app. Personal Spotify or Apple Music accounts explicitly forbid business use.
The licence attaches to the place the music plays, not the company. Every venue, in every country, must be covered on its own, so a growing estate means the fees, the collecting societies and the admin all multiply. That is exactly the cost Melodial Plus is built to collapse.
Operate in three countries and you juggle three sets of agreements, tariffs and renewals, before a single track plays.
One hotel can run five different streams, and five licences
A single property rarely plays one playlist. The lobby, bar, restaurant, pool and gym each want their own sound, so each is a separate music stream, with its own collecting-society tariff and its own streaming subscription. Then it all repeats at the next property.
Melodial replaces the whole stack: one platform, central control of every stream and site, and a flat per-stream price, no tariff guesswork, no second vendor.
One price. Every site. Nothing to reconcile.
Traditional licensing charges per stream, per site, and adds a music subscription on top. Melodial Plus is one flat price per stream, however many sites and zones you run.
Two bills, at every site
Every new site and zone multiplies both bills, and the admin.
Melodial Plus. One flat price per stream, however many sites and zones. Central control, no collecting-society tariffs to reconcile, no second subscription.
One single platform to run every site
Central multi-site control
Manage every location and stream from one dashboard, with brand guidelines applied everywhere.
Scheduling & dayparting
Schedule playlists by day, daypart, stream or location across the whole estate.
Audio ad creator
Create AI voiceover spots and target them to specific sites, streams or times.
User permissions
Give local managers the right access and limit what each user can change.
Flat per-stream pricing
Every stream is the same price, no per-zone collecting-society tariffs to decode or reconcile.
Compliance built in
A Certificate of Compliance for every location, downloadable any time.
Curated playlists for your brand
For groups that want a signature sound, our team curates a ~12-hour playlist around your brand and refreshes it every two months, playable across all your Plus streams and locations.
Explore curated playlistsCustom music, produced to order
When off-the-shelf won't do, we produce original music to your scope, a sound that's entirely yours, with the same ongoing refreshes as curated.
Explore custom playlistsQuestions from operators
How does Melodial Plus pricing work, per site or per stream?
A hotel plays different music in different areas, how many licences is that?
What if some areas share the same playlist?
Can local managers control their own site?
What about chart hits in our venues?
Can you produce a sound that is unique to our brand?
Let's map the savings across your estate
Tell us how many sites and streams you run and we'll model the move from society fees plus a vendor to a single Melodial Plus platform.