YouTube allows artists to bring their content together from multiple channels into a centralized location – a YouTube Official Artist Channel (OAC). Your OAC automatically programs your music catalog on two new shelves, including your music videos, songs, and albums. You can learn all the specifics on YouTube’s dedicated OAC support hub, but below you’ll find…
At this time you cannot exclude any specific videos from being monetized through the YouTube Sound Recording Revenue Collection Service. When you monetize a track on YouTube through this service, you monetize all the videos that track can be found on. We’re unable to exclude certain videos from the service, but you can specify one channel to whitelist…
ELIGIBLE You can submit specific tracks to YouTube Content ID for revenue collection that: INELIGIBLE You cannot submit specific tracks to YouTube Content ID for revenue collection that: Important: Violations of these guidelines may lead to permanent blocking of your account from this service.
YouTube’s policy does not allow for retroactive payment related to any views from videos containing your music prior to the start of opting into this service.
In most cases compilation licenses grant the right to distribute the licensed master as contained on the album on a non-exclusive basis, but not the right to monetize them. Only the original producer of each song is allowed to claim and monetize the content on YouTube.
It is not required for you to have your own YouTube channel in order to utilize the monetization service. Tunetradr can still monetize the use of your audio in videos created by others. You can check out YouTube’s guide to create your own channel here.
YouTube only monetizes your sound recording rights, or audio. You cannot monetize your song composition rights through this service.
Your audio will generate revenue on YouTube based on: To make sure each viewer has the best experience, YouTube does not place ads on every view. There are also territory-specific issues. For instance, in Germany some of the videos containing your audio may not have ads placed on them due to a conflict between YouTube…
YouTube users who utilize your audio in their videos cannot stop YouTube from placing ads, or take down any already-placed ads. The only way to avoid having ads on a monetized video is to take the video down completely.
