TuneSat is an audio monitoring service that monitors millions of websites and hundreds of TV channels around the world. With the slogan ‘Get played. Get paid’, their purpose is to track the use of users’ songs on television shows and sites because according to them, ‘up to 80% of music on TV goes unreported.’ And if the use of your music is not reported – you’re not getting paid for it, which is definitely not a good thing if you’re the one who wrote it.
So to help you get paid when you get played, TuneSat has a variety of different plans available, such as small monthly subscription plans starting at $10 to track just a small number of songs through to plans economised to cover entire libraries of your life’s work.
How it works, is that once you upload your tunes that you want TuneSat to track, the files are ‘fingerprinted’ by TuneSat with a technology that allows your music to be detected even in extreme ‘dirty audio’ environments, full of dialogue and other sounds, whether it has been edited or not, and only three seconds of your music is necessary to be used for TuneSat to pick it up. The technology is also retroactive, meaning that it can track your songs’ usage since 2009.
With the analytics provided by TuneSat’s fingerprinting technology, you see exactly where your music is being used, by who, and if when comparing your TuneSat report to the report you receive from any performance right societies (PROs) that you may use, if there are discrepancies, your TuneSat report can be used to prove this and help enable you to get those royalties you are owed, these analytics can also be used for evidence in any cases of copyright infringement, and also for future business planning by seeing who is using your music and which parts of your catalogue are most popular.
Long story short, if you are a composer or artist with a few tracks floating around out there, you may want to sign up for this service for a little while to see what extra royalties you can catch, there’s a chance you might not get back more than you spend on the service, but then there’s also a chance you could be losing 80% of your TV and web usage earnings.
