Offices in Zebralution is a German digital distribution company for independent record labels, audiobooks and podcasts operating worldwide from their Berlin headquarters.
[1] Founded in 2004 by Sascha Lazimbat (formerly with Vodafone, also lawyer and author) and Kurt Thielen (formerly with Vodafone, longtime CEO of Rough Trade Distribution Germany,[2] audio book publisher with Finch & Zebra) as the first European digital distributor for indie labels the company operates from headquarters in Berlin and offices in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam as well as Bochum and Cologne offering distribution, marketing and administrative services.
[7] Zebralution is one of the leading distributors of digital media content - from music & videos to audiobooks & radio plays and e-books to mobile entertainment products.
Zebralution functions as an interface between rights owners, license holders and labels on the one side and digital retailers and services (download, streaming), e.g. iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Beatport, eMusic, Vodafone, Spotify, Deezer, YouTube on the other.
The scope of services includes the technical preparation of the digital content, the delivery to the trade, retail marketing and the settlement of sales proceeds to the licensors.
[13] [14] City Slang (Roosevelt, Noga Erez, Caribou, Calexico), Zooland Records (ItaloBrothers), Get Physical Music (M.A.N.D.Y., WhoMadeWho, DJ Pierre), SUOL (Fritz Kalkbrenner), Stil vor Talent (Oliver Koletzki), Pampa Records (DJ Koze), Little Idiot (Moby), Embassy of Music (Robyn, Björk, Monolink, Leslie Clio), Ignition (Oasis) Big Finish Productions (Doctor Who, The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes), Canongate Books (George Orwell, Graham Greene, P.G.