About Crunch Digital

Crunch Digital: Our Mission & History

Crunch Digital’s mission is to eliminate the barriers of music licensing and payments, ultimately fueling better revenue flow and reducing operating costs through streamlined workflows.

Crunch Digital is an independent technology firm based in Los Angeles, California with a long pedigree in the media & entertainment industry. We offer a full suite of solutions and services to provide a simple, affordable, compliant and a reliable way to use music content. We support content owners – including record labels and music publishers – by managing the flow of data to and from digital services and other licensees. We also manage data flow for content licensees – digital service providers, multi-channel networks, game companies, app developers and mobile carriers – including royalty reporting and payments.

We created Crunch Digital in 2013 as a new division of Royalty Review Council, the market leader in worldwide digital royalty audits and outsource royalty accounting. Our leadership team brings deep experience and strong relationships.  In 2016 we started the process to create the Sandbox program.  It has long been a vision of our founder Keith Bernstein to create a music licensing platform for innovators to build new products and new features that use music and help them get legally launched.

What makes Crunch Digital so different?  Other companies talk about building music licensing solutions, we actually have one.

Crunch Digital: Meet Founder Keith Bernstein

Keith Bernstein is responsible for extending Crunch’s partnerships and spearheading growth in international business segments, including music, film & television, publishing and games. Keith is known in the entertainment industry for his acute financial prowess and knowledge of the complexities of music copyrights, royalty accounting, reporting requirements, label operations, and digital service operations. With over 25 years of experience, he has a unique blend of music industry and business development experience, and is recognized for his strategic insight and personal integrity.

Keith has been a featured guest lecturer at universities and has spoken on a number of music industry panels. He has covered such topics as music licensing, music royalty accounting, royalty examination procedures, and financial due diligence related to song catalog acquisitions.

Keith attended the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management Executive Program in Business Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics/Business from the University of California, Los Angeles.