What Audiam does

Audiam, Inc. is a privately held digital music royalty collection company incorporated in New York, USA, founded in 2013 and headquartered at 40 Wall Street, 6th Floor. The company operates a proprietary digital royalty collection and payment engine that uses big-data techniques to identify metadata for sound recordings, detect instances of use across digital platforms, and push cleaned data back to platforms to ensure accurate royalty attribution. Its core products are (1) a digital royalty collection platform that licenses and collects royalties on behalf of clients from 50+ digital service providers including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, TikTok, Tidal, Pandora, and SoundCloud, and (2) a YouTube Content ID claims and monetization service that registers audio reference files and claims on behalf of rights-holders.

Audiam serves music publishers and record labels (enterprise), with independent songwriters/creators as a secondary segment. Revenue is generated through a contingency-based administration fee: the company charges a percentage of royalties actually collected, with the rate varying by client catalog size and value, and earns nothing if no royalties are collected. Distribution is direct B2B enterprise sales led by CEO John Raso, supported by shared senior executives with HFA and Rumblefish, and by partnerships with SESAC Music Group and Black Squirrel Partners (Metallica's business arm). The company is YouTube-Certified for content identification, and its CEO has been named to Billboard's Digital Power Players list annually since 2019.

The business is operated by a small team (1–10 employees) including veterans with 75+ years of combined music industry experience across publishing administration, licensing, and royalty collection. Audiam has raised approximately $3.56M across four funding rounds between 2013 and 2014, with no subsequent institutional rounds disclosed. No revenue, ARR, or headcount-growth figures are publicly available, and the company remains privately held with no parent, subsidiary, or controlling ownership structure disclosed.

Name

Audiam

Legal name

Audiam, Inc.

Website

https://audiam.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Audiam is a digital music royalty collection company that uses proprietary big-data technology to identify and collect royalties from 50+ streaming and digital platforms on behalf of music publishers, record labels, and independent songwriters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music Royalty Collection & Rights Administration

NAICS

Music Publishers (51223), Music Publishers (512230), Sound Recording Industries (5122), Other Sound Recording Industries (51229)

akta.pro primary industry

Royalty Auditing, Compliance & Anti-Piracy/Enforcement (MPAIAKAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Royalty Analytics, Forecasting & Valuation Services (MPAIAKAG), Micro-Licensing & Direct Licensing Platforms (UGC, SMB venues, online uses) (MPAIAKAJ), Music Recognition, Lyrics & Metadata Platforms (MPAIADAK), Sync Royalty Administration & Reporting (Cue Sheets, Claims, Audits) (MPAIALAL)

Keywords

• Digital music royalty collection
• Music publishing administration
• YouTube content ID
• Streaming royalty collection
• Music rights management

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Royalty Administration Services: Audiam charges an administration fee based on a percentage of royalties collected. The company only earns revenue when clients successfully collect royalties, aligning incentives. Rate is determined by the size and value of client copyrights. The company locates difficult-to-find digital royalties across licensed platforms and collects them on behalf of music publishers and record labels.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Audiam is a digital music royalty collection company built on a proprietary payment engine that uses big data to discover and collect digital music royalties for music publishers and record labels across 50+ licensed platforms. The company also provides YouTube Content ID claims management, helping rights holders monetize user-generated content containing their sound recordings.

Product overview

Audiam operates as a digital music royalty collection company offering a unified platform built on proprietary technology. The core offering is a digital royalty collection and payment engine that leverages big data to discover and collect royalties from digital platforms. Key service modules include YouTube Content ID management for claiming and monetizing content on YouTube, licensing services for digital service providers, and metadata enhancement for sound recordings. The company serves music publishers and record labels by finding difficult-to-locate royalties across streaming services, social media platforms, and other digital music providers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Digital Music Royalty Collection Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• Clients retain 100% of YouTube earnings from their own channel uploads
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• SESACcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSESAC Music Group is a music publishing organization. Audiam's partnership with SESAC enables coordinated royalty collection and licensing administration services for SESAC-affiliated publishers and songwriters.
• HFA/RumblefishcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHFA (Harry Fox Agency) and Rumblefish are related entities under the same corporate umbrella as Audiam. Key executives Stephen Block and Michael Smith serve in senior roles across all three entities, providing coordinated music publishing administration, licensing, and royalty distribution services.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• The Harry Fox Agency (HFA): HFA is the largest U.S. mechanical rights administrator and a sister entity of Audiam via shared executive Steve Block. It directly competes in the same music publishing administration and royalty distribution space, with overlapping client base and execution infrastructure.
• Songtrust: Songtrust is a leading independent music publishing administrator that collects royalties globally for songwriters and publishers. It competes head-to-head with Audiam for the same digital royalty collection use case across streaming platforms, YouTube, and international PROs.
• Kobalt Music Group: Kobalt is a technology-forward music publisher and royalty administration platform serving songwriters, publishers, and labels. It is comparable to Audiam in offering digital royalty collection, rights administration, and data services to music rights holders worldwide.
• Downtown Music: Downtown Music provides music publishing administration, royalty services, and distribution to publishers and labels. It directly competes with Audiam in the digital royalty collection and rights administration space, particularly for independent publishers and songwriters.
• Music Reports Inc. Music Reports Inc. provides music rights administration, royalty accounting, and metadata services to publishers, labels, and digital service providers. It is a direct competitor in mechanical licensing and royalty distribution, with deep relationships across the U.S. publishing industry.

Broad incumbents

• SESAC Music Group: SESAC is a U.S. performing rights organization that licenses public performance rights and collects royalties for affiliated publishers and songwriters. It is both a strategic partner and a broader incumbent in the music rights administration space, with overlapping publisher relationships.
• BMG Rights Management: BMG is a major music publisher and rights administrator offering publishing admin, royalty collection, and neighboring rights services. It competes with Audiam for publisher and label clients, but as a much larger, full-service incumbent with broader catalog and service offerings.
• SoundExchange: SoundExchange is the designated U.S. non-interactive royalty collection agent for sound recording performances. While focused on a different right (digital performance for sound recordings), it overlaps with Audiam's YouTube and streaming sound recording royalty collection mandate.

Emerging players

• Audible Magic: Audible Magic provides content identification and rights management technology for music, video, and UGC platforms. It is comparable to Audiam's YouTube Content ID claims management capability on the technology side, serving platforms and rights holders.
• Pex: Pex provides audio content identification, UGC rights management, and music licensing infrastructure. It competes with Audiam in the YouTube and UGC identification and royalty claim management space, with a more platform-side orientation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/AudiamMusic
• Facebookfacebook.com/AudiamMusic
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/audiam

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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