If someone uses your music in a YouTube video, you may be able to get paid for it — even if they uploaded the video to their own channel. The main way artists and rights…
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If you’ve released your own music, you might be wondering how to claim ownership of your music on YouTube. Your songs can appear across YouTube in official music videos, lyric videos, Shorts, fan uploads, gaming…
You distribute your music into YouTube Content ID. Then you upload your own music video. YouTube claims it. Why is your own song claiming your own channel? Because Content ID is doing exactly what it…
TikTok has become one of the most important music discovery platforms in the world. Songs can move from relative obscurity to millions of listeners after being featured in a popular TikTok video, trend or challenge.…
You’ve released a song, spent time and money creating it, and then discover someone else is using your music on YouTube without asking. So, how do you stop others using your music on YouTube? As…
Your music can travel much further than your Spotify artist page. It might appear in: Finding those uses can reveal both marketing opportunities and missing revenue. Start with YouTube Search: Then look beyond exact matches.…
How can Shazam identify a song after hearing only a few seconds? How can YouTube recognise your track inside somebody else’s video? Both rely on forms of audio-recognition technology. For musicians, understanding this technology matters…
YouTube can be one of the most valuable revenue platforms for musicians, but YouTube monetisation works differently depending on how your music is being used. Musicians can earn money from YouTube through several different routes,…
