Distro Nation is partnering with Trolley to streamline their artist payouts and tax reporting processes, ensuring faster payments and improved onboarding for their artists and labels. By integrating Trolley’s advanced payment and tax solutions, Distro Nation has enhanced operational efficiency, allowing them to pay artists a week earlier than before.
TORONTO, CANADA – October 23rd, 2024 – We are thrilled to announce that Distro Nation, the innovative distribution platform empowering independent artists and labels, has partnered with Trolley to power their artist payouts and tax reporting. Through this collaboration, Distro Nation can now serve its clients with transparent reporting, faster payments, and more efficient onboarding processes, enabling artists and labels to focus on what matters most: their music.
Jon Baltz, CEO and Co-Founder of Distro Nation, emphasized their core mission: “At Distro Nation, our priority is paying artists as quickly as possible while ensuring they retain their music rights. With Trolley, we’re now able to pay artists a week earlier than before, and the process has never been smoother.”
Streamlining operations with Trolley’s platform
Distro Nation is renowned for its commitment to supporting independent creators and labels. Monthly royalty payouts require a system capable of onboarding and processing payments for hundreds of clients quickly and accurately. Trolley’s platform, with its ability to automate payouts and efficiently gather banking and tax information, has transformed how Distro Nation manages these critical processes.
“Trolley has helped us organize our artists’ banking and tax information, making our onboarding process much more efficient. On the payment side, we’re able to pay our artists faster than ever,” added Baltz.
The partnership between Trolley and Distro Nation directly aligns with Trolley’s mission to build the leading payout platform for the internet economy. Tim Nixon, Trolley’s CEO, highlighted the significance of this collaboration: “Our goal is to empower businesses to reach workers from all corners of the world and to help creators, on-demand workers, and suppliers bring their specialized talents to a global market. By working with Distro Nation, we’re helping artists around the world get paid quickly and fairly.”
Supporting future growth with faster, transparent payments
For Distro Nation, integrating Trolley has delivered a host of operational improvements. Trolley’s robust platform enables easy client onboarding, ensures bulk payments are processed efficiently, and simplifies tax reporting—key features that Baltz sees as critical to their success.
“Distro Nation is focused on transparent reporting and fast payments. Trolley has streamlined our payments so we’re paying faster than ever,” said Baltz. “Our operations demand speed and accuracy, and Trolley has been essential in helping us deliver both.”
As Distro Nation continues to grow and serve an ever-expanding global roster of artists and labels, Trolley will remain a strategic partner, driving operational efficiency and providing the tools necessary to scale.
Nixon reaffirmed Trolley’s commitment to unlocking the full economic potential of the internet: “Trolley’s vision is to build a truly global payouts ecosystem that supports businesses like Distro Nation in their mission to serve artists. We’re excited to continue supporting their growth and helping artists thrive.”
Through this partnership, Distro Nation is now recognized as best-in-class in payment speed and transparency, adding value to both the artists they serve and the marketers they work with. Trolley’s platform has not only helped streamline payouts but also reinforced Distro Nation’s mission to support independent music creators worldwide.
About Distro Nation
Distro Nation is a music distribution platform that empowers independent artists and labels by ensuring fast, transparent royalty payments while allowing them to retain control of their music rights. Through technology and partnerships, Distro Nation simplifies the distribution process, helping artists focus on their creative work.
About Trolley
Trolley is the end-to-end payout platform built for the internet economy, helping businesses make and manage payouts to contractors around the globe. Finance and product teams across hundreds of organizations—including SoundCloud, Envato, Downtown Music, Bugcrowd, GoTo, & Viral Nation—use Trolley to automate processes and enable payouts at scale. Annually, Trolley sends billions of dollars in 210+ countries & territories, with over 2.5 million total recipients on the platform. Trolley is on a mission to unlock the collective economic opportunity of the internet.
