Recovery notes

Where YouTube royalties get stuck.

Plain-English guidance for publishers, songwriters and rights teams working through content matches, metadata and ownership.

Field guides

Start with the gap you can see.

Then trace it back to the rights, data or workflow that keeps the revenue from moving.

Matching & discovery · 6 min

Content ID vs. manual claims

Why a powerful fingerprinting system still needs specialist human research.

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Metadata & conflicts · 7 min

When ownership data stops payment

How broken links and overlapping claims interrupt otherwise eligible collection.

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UGC & altered audio · 6 min

The song outside the official upload

Sped-up, slowed-down, remixed, podcast and live uses that expand the search.

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Start with evidence

Find the issue in your own catalogue.

We’ll review a representative sample and show you where coverage, metadata or ownership may be leaving eligible YouTube revenue unresolved.

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