Universal Music Group

UMG Catalog Delivery to DSPs

UMG's recorded-music catalog reaches developers and end users almost exclusively through downstream Digital Service Providers (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, Pandora, etc.). UMG delivers audio, video, and metadata to those platforms through private ingest pipelines (industry-standard DDEX ERN / RIN / MEAD messaging delivered over SFTP or vendor-specific APIs). End developers query UMG-owned content through each DSP's own public API, not through any UMG-branded API surface. UMG itself publishes no DSP-style public catalog API.

UMG Catalog Delivery to DSPs is one of 8 APIs that Universal Music Group publishes on the APIs.io network.

Tagged areas include Catalog, DDEX, Distribution, DSP, and Metadata.

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Other Resources

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ReferenceStandard
https://ddex.net/
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PartnerProgram
https://www.universalmusic.com/contact/

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: universal-music-group:partner-dsp-feeds
name: UMG Catalog Delivery to DSPs
description: UMG's recorded-music catalog reaches developers and end users almost exclusively through
  downstream Digital Service Providers (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer,
  Pandora, etc.). UMG delivers audio, video, and metadata to those platforms through private ingest pipelines
  (industry-standard DDEX ERN / RIN / MEAD messaging delivered over SFTP or vendor-specific APIs). End
  developers query UMG-owned content through each DSP's own public API, not through any UMG-branded API
  surface. UMG itself publishes no DSP-style public catalog API.
humanURL: https://www.universalmusic.com
baseURL: https://www.universalmusic.com
tags:
- Catalog
- DDEX
- Distribution
- DSP
- Metadata
properties:
- type: ReferenceStandard
  url: https://ddex.net/
- type: PartnerProgram
  url: https://www.universalmusic.com/contact/