Here's the thing about music royalties: many of them never reach the artists who earned them.
deecoob, a German service company serving the global music industry, built MESLIS© to fix this problem. They provide a comprehensive data collection platform and created MESLIS©, a state-of-the-art analytics and workflow solution for Collective Management Organizations worldwide. This normally adds up to an average increase of revenue of 10% per year for the CMOs. Their mission is to make artists successful by ensuring fair monetization of creative work - a vision that aligns perfectly with Apify's goal to democratize web scraping and automation.
Composing a strategy
The challenge was doing this at scale. deecoob needed to scrape millions of music event records from platforms like Songkick and Live Nation, identify unlicensed venues, and process constantly changing data sources. However, keeping MESLIS© current posed significant challenges due to the massive volume and constant variability - platform UI changes, blocking mechanisms, and API updates that could break scrapers overnight.
deecoob's Managing Director explains why they chose Apify:
We did some comparison among all EU providers and decided on Apify. Apify provides Actors, which makes it much easier and faster to work together to implement a crawler or even use ready-to-use Actors from Apify Store.
-- Managing Director
With Apify's team of scraping and web automation experts, deecoob has been able to scale MESLIS© operations and meet its customers' growing demands. He adds, "Apify always has different ideas and experiences from other crawling jobs, making suggestions on how to make it the best and the most efficient."
Fine-tuning the partnership
For crawling data from internet platforms, changes to UI, blocking, and APIs are common issues. Also, it’s important for deecoob to get a complete data record from very specific sources for their growing number of clients. That’s where Apify Actors like Google Maps Scraper shine – you can get all the Google Maps data you need, including reviews, images, contact info, opening hours, location, popular times, prices, and more.
The ready-to-use Actors are really great stuff. We really enjoy having the opportunity to use them as a starting point.
-- Managing Director
For deecoob, this isn't just another vendor relationship - it's a strategic partnership built for the long haul.
Apify is one of those strong, successful, and very competent partners. We’ve been working with the same people for years, which makes it very intense, open, and transparent.
-- Managing Director
Encore
Apify and deecoob’s work plays an integral part in global growth and fair compensation for artists in the music industry. By providing accurate, up-to-date data, deecoob helps monetize creativity. As deecoob and the music industry continue to evolve, Apify is committed to adapting its solutions to meet deecoob's changing needs.
Ready to extract comprehensive venue data like deecoob? Watch how our Google Maps Scraper Actor gathers everything from contact details to social media in minutes. Check out the video below:
