TLL’s feature of selected preschool properties with active merchandising programs worldwide, complete with retail sales ranges…
Entertainment/Character
Licensors Poised to Lose Millions in Royalties
November 11, 2016
Top entertainment companies like Discovery, CBS, Fox, and NBCUniversal are allegedly facing millions in lost royalties if a planned bankruptcy auction of Delivery Agent…
ENTERTAINMENT/CHARACTER
Preschool: A Passport to the Worldwide Market
September 30, 2016
As one of the first categories in which properties originating outside the U.S. became part of global culture, the $10+ billion worldwide preschool sector…
TLL SURVEY
Music Licensed Goods Down 1.7% as Movie Merch Spread Out on Shelves
September 5, 2016
U.S. and Canadian sales of licensed goods based on music properties trended down for the second consecutive year in 2015, though not as steeply as in 2014. Music licensed goods represented…
MUSIC LICENSING
Lucky Brand Joins Bands
October 9, 2015
With its recent deal to develop a national apparel and accessories program around classic rock bands KISS, Journey, Def Leppard and…
Beer
Branded Bud
September 18, 2015
Following in the footsteps of so many rock bands, Metallica has partnered with Budweiser to launch a limited edition line of branded beers in Canada…
TLL’s Guide to Music-based Properties
August 19, 2015
Musicians and bands, living and dead, are included in “Music.” Apart from merchandise licensing based on the individual or group name or imagery (the Rolling Stones tongue or the Grateful Dead dancing bears, for example)…
LICENSED PROPERTIES
Licensed Sales of Music Goods Hit Low Note in 2014
July 28, 2015
After five consecutive years of growth, retail sales of licensed goods based on music properties in the U.S. and Canada declined 2.5% in 2014, according to The Licensing Letter’s Annual Licensing Business Survey. The dip in sales of music licensed goods may be both an effect and a reflection of the larger trends shaping the different aspects of the music business…
Bundled Merch
Bundling Goods with Music
December 1, 2014
Garth Brooks’s GhostTunes music downloading service rolled out last month in tandem with release of Brooks’ “Man Against the Machine” album, his first in 13 years. The new service allows artists to bundle licensed merchandise, tickets, and the music itself, to order…