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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YouTube contains an enormous amount of music that wasn’t uploaded by the original artist. Your song might appear in a gaming video, vlog, meme or fan edit. YouTube Content ID can help identify those uses…
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…
There was a time when getting your song uploaded to the right YouTube promotional channel could change an artist’s career. Channels such as Trap Nation, MrSuicideSheep, Proximity, UKF, Majestic Casual and countless genre-specific curators built…
Apple’s first foldable iPhone is no longer a rumour. Apple officially unveiled the iPhone Duo on September 9, 2026, introducing an iPhone with two displays and an entirely new way of using iOS. When closed,…
If fans are using your music in videos on YouTube, those uploads could be generating money for you. Many artists assume they only earn from videos uploaded to their own YouTube channel. In reality, music…
YouTube Music royalties can be confusing. You release one song, but that same song could potentially earn money from YouTube Music streams, YouTube videos, Content ID claims, advertising, subscriptions and music publishing. These are not…
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…
YouTube changed one of its most familiar metrics on 24 August 2026. A public view is now counted from the first frame of playback across Shorts, normal videos, podcasts and livestreams. At the same time,…
If you have distributed music to YouTube Music, you may have searched for your artist name on YouTube and discovered a channel called something like: Artist Name – Topic You might also notice that your…
