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Riptide Music and Pigfactory, two leading, Los Angeles-based music sync licensing and publishing companies, have merged to form a new, combined entity: RIPTIDE MUSIC GROUP, LLC. Riptide Music President Rich Goldman, Riptide Music Executive Vice President Bob Kaminsky, and Pigfactory CEO Keatly Haldeman jointly made today's announcement.

The newly formed Riptide Music Group instantly becomes a "sync-flavored" global publishing administration powerhouse. The company's services include the worldwide synchronization of music for advertising, movie trailers, television, film and videogames. In addition, the company will also provide services for the international collection of publishing royalties. Riptide Music Group will leverage its advanced digital accounting, administration, and distribution systems to proactively exploit its clients' music catalogs and copyrights, on a global scale.

Recent licensing credits from Riptide Music and/or Pigfactory (prior to the formation of Riptide Music Group,) include music placements within episodes of "Breaking Bad," the movie trailer for "The Wolf of Wall Street," commercials for BMW, and the trailer promoting the videogame "Call Of Duty: Black Ops."

Riptide Music Group's newly combined music roster includes songs by Fatboy Slim (whose song "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat" was recently #2 on the UK charts,) Iggy Pop, the Turtles, Deadly Avenger, Airborne Toxic Event (whose single "Hell and Back" is currently on the radio,) and Dirty Vegas (winner of the first ever Grammy Award for Electronic Music,) whose new EP is represented exclusively by Riptide Music Group.

"There is a real need within the entertainment, media, and advertising industries today for a publishing administration company with an equally strong focus on both proactive sync and worldwide royalty collection," said Goldman. "Riptide Music Group now fills that need."
Adds Haldeman, "By coming together to form Riptide Music Group, we believe we can offer our administration clients the greatest possible exposure to worldwide sync opportunities of anyone in the industry."

The new Riptide Music Group is comprised of three operating units:

Riptide Rights: Riptide Rights will oversee publishing and master rights for administration and sync representation. As one of the few independent publishers in the industry to affiliate directly with many international royalty societies and through foreign partnerships, Riptide Rights will efficiently and accurately register compositions and actively collect royalties World Wide.

Riptide One: Riptide One is a carefully curated catalog of independent artists, bands, producers and composers which offers a diverse range of music for licensing in advertising, movie trailers, television, film and videogames. Riptide One controls 100% of its master and publishing rights for easy licensing.

Pacifica Music Library: A modern production music library previously established as a joint venture between Riptide Music and Pigfactory, the Pacifica catalog offers music for all visual media: Commercials, TV Promos, Sports Programming, Reality TV, and more. Pacifica Music provides the production community with over 20,000 tracks of great music, at competitive pricing, with a knowledgeable staff always available to help with music searches. Utilizing online search and delivery, needle drops, show packages, and blanket licenses, Pacifica Music offers users a fast and efficient user experience.

ABOUT RIPTIDE MUSIC:
Founded in Los Angeles in 1999 by President Rich Goldman, with Bob Kaminsky serving as Executive VP, Riptide Music has been a creative, forward thinking, music licensing and publishing company representing hundreds of accomplished composers, indie bands, singer/songwriters, labels, celebrity artists and historic masters for licensing in movie trailers, advertising, television, films and videogames.

ABOUT PIGFACTORY:
Co-founded in Los Angeles in 2005 by CEO Keatly Haldeman, Pigfactory Music Publishing has been specializing in the international placement of music in film, television, film trailers, advertising, and videogames, and in the collection of publishing royalties, worldwide. With its advanced digital publishing system, it has proactively exploited its clients' music catalogues and tracked music publishing royalties on a global scale. Pigfactory has represented top songwriters, artists, record producers, labels, and publishers, with an expansive roster, including an extensive selection of classic hits.

ABOUT THE RIPTIDE MUSIC GROUP:
Formed in early 2014 by the mergers of Riptide Music and Pigfactory, Riptide Music Group is located at 9469 Jefferson Blvd., Ste. 114, Culver City, CA 90232. The phone is 310.437.4380. For more information, please see: www.riptidemusic.com