DDEX-ERN Exclusive Best Practices

Beatport has implemented the ability to interpret exclusive periods communicated via DDEX-ERN within Beatport’s current business model for exclusives.

 

DDEX ERN communicates exclusivity using Dates rather than a specific Exclusive Period. Since Beatport does not recognize exclusive "dates", but rather exclusive "periods" we must use these two dates in order to calculate whether a track may be flagged as a 2-week, 4-
week, or 8-week exclusive.

There are a few different ways suppliers may communicate exclusivity:

• Some suppliers use an element <isExclusive> within the <DealTerms> to denote a specific deal as exclusive
• Some suppliers will simply communicate an <OriginalReleaseDate> in the <Release> reference or within the ReleaseDeal itself that is PAST the corresponding ReleaseDeal ’s <StartDate>

 

If a supplier does not include DealTerms that include this <isExclusive> element, then we must use the Deal’s <StartDate> and corresponding <OriginalReleaseDate> to determine exclusivity.

 

Also, since we cannot assign an exclusive period per territory, we must determine the least amount of time a Deal will be exclusive according to the various DealTerms in order to determine the exclusive period for the track.

Date/Time Logic

If XML includes a ReleaseDeal with <DealTerms> <isExclusive> = true, find latest <StartDate> (or <StartDateTime> ) in <DealTerms> AND earliest <EndDate> (or <EndDateTime> ) and calculate number of days between <StartDate> and <EndDate> :

• If total days ≥ 56 days, then Track exclusive period = 8 Weeks
• If total days ≥ 28 days AND < 56 days, then Track exclusive period = 4 Weeks
• If total days ≥ 14 days AND < 28 days, then Track exclusive period = 2 Weeks
• If total days < 14 days, then Track exclusive period = None

If XML does not include a ReleaseDeal with <DealTerms> <isExclusive> = true, but DOES include a ReleaseDeal with <DealTerms> <OriginalReleaseDate> that is PAST the <DealTerms> <StartDate> , find latest <StartDate> (or <StartDateTime> ) in <DealTerms>
AND earliest <OriginalReleaseDate> and calculate number of days between <StartDate> and <OriginalReleaseDate> :

• If total days ≥ 56 days, then Track exclusive period = 8 Weeks
• If total days ≥ 28 days AND < 56 days, then Track exclusive period = 4 Weeks
• If total days ≥ 14 days AND < 28 days, then Track exclusive period = 2 Weeks
• If total days < 14 days, then Track exclusive period = None

If XML does not include a ReleaseDeal with <DealTerms> <isExclusive> = true OR a ReleaseDeal with <DealTerms><OriginalReleaseDate> , but DOES include an <OriginalReleaseDate> in the <Release> reference, find latest <StartDate> (or
<StartDateTime> ) in <DealTerms> or corresponding ReleaseDeal and calculate number of days between <StartDate> and <OriginalReleaseDate> in <Release> reference:

• If total days ≥ 56 days, then Track exclusive period = 8 Weeks
• If total days ≥ 28 days AND < 56 days, then Track exclusive period = 4 Weeks
• If total days ≥ 14 days AND < 28 days, then Track exclusive period = 2 Weeks
• If total days < 14 days, then Track exclusive period = None