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Grassroots Venue Repertoire Study

PR Campaign
Thursday 15th October, 2026

Music Venue Trust and Audoo monitored 623 hours of live performances at grassroots venues and found that 21% matched songs registered with PRS For Music. The pilot turned a long-running debate about royalty payments into concrete evidence, with a larger study planned across 108 venues; unmatched audio also included speech and music the technology could not identify.

Why it worked: It turned a messy fairness debate into a hard, surprising 21% datapoint using independent tech, directly challenging PRS’s proxy-based payouts.

The lesson: Consider auditing a common industry assumption with third‑party measurement, then pitch the single jaw‑drop stat that proves the system’s off.

Music Venue Trust Audoo
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