YouTube Content ID & CMS — every video using your music pays you.
Right now, your music is inside videos you've never seen — covers, edits, vlogs, shorts, compilations. We run YouTube Content ID through our certified YouTube CMS access: every one of those videos gets identified by audio fingerprint, claimed under your policy, and monetized straight onto your statement.
YouTube is the biggest
royalty leak in music.
Uploading your own videos is the easy part. The real money sits in everyone else's uploads — fan covers, edits, reaction videos, all using your music without asking. DIY YouTube copyright claiming for artists means filing a dispute per video, one at a time; without Content ID behind you, most of that revenue never reaches you at all.
CMS-Grade, Not DIY
Any eligible rights holder can apply for Content ID directly. YouTube CMS is the level above that — the roster-scale backend multi-channel networks (MCNs) and major-label rights teams run Content ID through, invitation-only. We hold that access and administer your catalog inside it, so you get CMS-grade claiming without a direct YouTube relationship of your own.
Content ID → YouTube CMSAutomated, Then Human
Fingerprint matching runs 24/7 across every upload on YouTube. Our rights team handles what automation can't — disputes, manual claims and edge cases.
Machines + rights teamYour Policy, Your Call
Monetize, track or block — match policies are set per asset and per territory to fit your strategy. Fan covers can earn for you while leaks get blocked.
Monetize · Track · BlockIf your catalog isn't fingerprinted, other people's videos are earning ad revenue on your music — and keeping it.
Every unclaimed use is monetized anyway — by the uploader, or by nobody. Content ID doesn't create that revenue; it redirects it to the rights holder it always belonged to. The only question is whether your references are in the system.
From delivery to payout,
in four moves.
You deliver audio once — the system never stops working after that.
Assets & references
We create assets for your recordings in the YouTube CMS, deliver reference files for fingerprinting, and set metadata and ownership by territory.
Match & claim
YouTube scans every upload against your references — full songs, clips, sped-up edits, re-pitches. Matches are claimed automatically under your match policy.
Manage & defend
Our rights team reviews disputes, files manual claims where automation misses, resolves ownership conflicts and keeps invalid counter-claims off your assets.
Collect & report
Ad revenue from every claimed video flows into your account, itemized by asset — paid monthly alongside your other royalties.
The full rights stack,
not just claims.
Claiming videos is the start. Real Content ID monetization means covering every format below, not just the obvious ones.
Fan Uploads & Covers
Covers, remixes of your originals, edits, slowed/sped versions and compilations — matched and monetized under your policy.
UGC → revenueShorts & Clips
Short-form uses are identified and claimed too — at Shorts volume, small per-view revenue compounds fast across a catalog.
Volume adds upWhitelisting
Your own channels, your artists' channels and approved partners are whitelisted — so promotion never gets caught in your own claims.
No self-claimsDisputes & Conflicts
Invalid disputes rejected with evidence, ownership conflicts resolved territory by territory, and repeat infringers escalated.
Defended · DocumentedChannel & OAC Support
Official Artist Channel setup and linking, topic channel consolidation and release delivery to YouTube Music alongside Content ID.
OAC · Topic · MusicReporting
Claim counts, top-earning assets and revenue by territory — visible in your dashboard and reconciled on your monthly statement.
Asset-level detailStraight answers on Content ID and CMS.
You can apply for direct Content ID access, but YouTube approves it only for a narrow set of rights holders with substantial, exclusively-controlled catalogs — most individual artists and independent labels get turned down. YouTube CMS is a level up again: the roster-scale backend multi-channel networks and rights administrators like Next use to run Content ID across an entire roster, invitation-only. Working through a certified partner gets you CMS-grade administration without needing that direct relationship yourself.
Not when it's set up properly. Your channels — and any channels you approve — are whitelisted against your assets, so your own uploads, premieres and promo clips are never hit by your own claims.
Exclusive rights to the recordings you deliver, in the territories we administer. Content ID doesn't accept content you don't exclusively control — no beats licensed non-exclusively, no public-domain-only material, no content with unresolved samples. We verify this at onboarding, because bad references put an entire catalog's standing at risk.
Disputes come to our rights team, not your inbox. Valid ones (like a channel you'd want whitelisted) get resolved in your interest; invalid ones are rejected with evidence within the response window, and escalations are handled through the CMS process.
It scales with how much your music circulates: catalogs with active fan communities, viral moments or heavily-used tracks can see Content ID rival their DSP income; quieter catalogs earn less but leak nothing. Either way it's revenue that costs you no extra work — the same recordings, earning from more places.
Like the rest of what we do here, it's a revenue share taken from what Content ID actually collects — not a flat monthly fee for CMS access, and nothing charged if your catalog doesn't earn. The percentage depends on catalog size and whether it rides alongside a full distribution deal or stands alone as YouTube-only rights management. Ask and we'll give you the real number before you sign anything, not after.
Content ID protection ships with our music distribution deals, and we also administer it standalone for catalogs that only need YouTube rights management. Either way, revenue lands on the same itemized monthly statement.
Not sure what your catalog is leaking on YouTube? Ask for a catalog review. Content ID covers what other people upload — for your own official videos, there's Vevo Video Distribution → and the same claim-and-monetize logic protects you on Instagram and Facebook through Meta UGC Distribution →
Rights holders on
working with Next.
A word from one of the catalogs we protect.
Royalty statements used to take weeks to make sense of. With Next, I can see exactly what's owed and where it's coming from, every month.
Claims filed on your behalf, not left to you.
Content ID only pays off if someone’s actually watching for uses of your music. Here’s who’s watching.
We File the Claims
DIY takedowns mean chasing one video at a time — our team monitors and claims continuously, so you don’t have to.
One Statement, Not a Separate Payout
Content ID revenue reconciles into the same itemized statement as your streaming royalties.
Included, Not a Subscription
Monitoring rides on your existing catalog relationship — it’s not sold as a separate protection plan.
Your music is already out there.
Claim ItSend us your catalog — we'll fingerprint it, claim every use, and turn YouTube from a leak into a revenue line.