{"id":98214,"date":"2021-01-15T21:31:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98214"},"modified":"2021-02-04T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:50:20","slug":"beatport","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/beatport\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beatport is an online retailer and subscription streaming service that specializes in electronic music.<\/p>\n<p>Beatport\u2019s products include Beatport LINK, its integrated streaming subscription product for DJs, as well as Beatsource LINK, a service targeted towards the open-format DJ community.<\/p>\n<p>The Beatport Store offers music in premium digital formats \u2013 as well as music discovery tools \u2013 for DJs.<\/p>\n<p>Each week, Beatport\u2019s music collection is refreshed with hundreds of exclusive tracks by the world\u2019s top electronic music artists. Beatport has offices in Los Angeles, Denver and Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrooves founder Robb McDaniels<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/ingrooves-founder-robb-mcdaniels-named-ceo-beatport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> took over as CEO<\/a> of Beatport in 2017.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6>Loopmasters acquisition<\/h6>\n<p>In December 2020, Beatport <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/beatport-buys-loopmasters-acquiring-plugin-boutique-and-loopcloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced it had acquired<\/a> UK-based company Loopmasters for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>With that acquisition, Beatport ingested the UK firm\u2019s two consumer brands \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loopcloud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loopcloud\u00a0<\/a>(which provides sound packs via a subscription service) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pluginboutique.com\/?gclid=CjwKCAiA_eb-BRB2EiwAGBnXXoGkWLr-UtUCsP3WFDXzABTS2P8moDPRDGYIC5B5ntiSXH_Q1EluWhoCshcQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plugin Boutique<\/a>\u00a0(which sells music plug-ins).<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Robb McDaniels said: \u201cMatt Pelling and the entire Loopmasters team are world-class people who have built amazing products for the producer community that simply belong in our ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe phenomenal growth of Plugin Boutique, the leading global seller of virtual instrument plug-ins, and the recent launch of Loopcloud, an innovative subscription service for the samples market, are a testament to the talent of their team, and we couldn\u2019t be happier to welcome them to the Beatport family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingrooves founder Robb McDaniels joined Beatport as CEO in 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53101,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98214","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}