What Yacast does

Yacast is a France-based B2B media monitoring and analytics company founded in March 2000, headquartered in Paris (89 boulevard Pereire, 17th arrondissement). The company operates a 360-degree audiovisual monitoring platform for the French and European music industry, organized around five internally developed product modules: Muzicast (real-time music broadcast monitoring across 200+ radio stations and ~10 music TV channels), Muzicenter (digital music promotion and distribution to media contacts), Talk (timestamped political speech time measurement for CSA compliance), MediaArchiver (24/7 broadcast recording with 3-year retention, Médiamétrie audience data and Twitter activity overlays), and Club Monitoring (discotheque music recognition via the proprietary Boxcast™ hardware/software system, producing the Club40 weekly charts). All five products are developed in-house at Yacast's own R&D center, with the Boxcast™ device — a secured black box connected to DJ mixers — representing its primary proprietary technology differentiator.

Yacast serves a concentrated but diversified roster of enterprise clients including all three major record labels (Universal, Sony, Warner), the principal French radio groups (Radio France, NRJ, RTL, RMC, Skyrock, Virgin Radio), TV broadcasters (Canal+, France 24), the French audiovisual regulator CSA, government institutions (République française), and music rights organizations (SACEM, SNEP). It also extends internationally via a partnership with Swiss rights society Suisa for discotheque monitoring in Switzerland. Revenue is generated through B2B subscriptions to its SaaS platforms plus bespoke research/barometer studies, with quote-based pricing on annual contracts; no public pricing or revenue figures are disclosed. Go-to-market is sales-led via direct enterprise relationships, supplemented by recurring industry publications (Focus Rentree Radio, Bilan Radio TV Clubs, Le Disco a la Radio et en Clubs) and industry events as content-marketing channels. Yacast remains privately held with no disclosed parent company, funding rounds, or institutional investors, operating with an 11–50 person headcount.

Name

Yacast

Legal name

Yacast

Website

https://yacast.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Yacast is a French B2B media monitoring and analytics firm serving record labels, broadcasters, regulators, and rights societies with five in-house products covering music broadcast tracking, digital promotion, political speech compliance, broadcast archiving, and discotheque music recognition via proprietary Boxcast™ hardware.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Audiovisual Media Monitoring Software

NAICS

Radio Broadcasting Stations (51611), Other Sound Recording Industries (512290)

SIC

Radio Broadcasting Stations (4832)

akta.pro primary industry

Radio Content Production & Studios (On-air Production, Imaging, Jingles) (MPAIAEAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Talk/News/Sports Radio Networks & Syndication (MPAIAEAG), Public Performance/Neighboring Rights for AV Uses (Cue Sheet & Reporting Services) (MPAIALAK)

Keywords

• Audiovisual media monitoring
• Music broadcast tracking
• Media compliance reporting
• Music rights tracking
• Discotheque music recognition

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscriptions (Muzicast, Muzicenter, MediaArchiver, Talk, Club Monitoring): Subscription-based access to Yacast's media monitoring platforms. Record labels, radio stations, TV channels, and media organizations pay for access to music broadcast tracking, digital music promotion services, media archiving, and political speech timing analysis.
2. Custom Research and Ad-hoc Studies: Bespoke analytical studies and barometers on music broadcast trends, media editorial offerings, and industry-specific research reports commissioned by clients in the music industry.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Yacast provides subscription-based B2B media monitoring software for the music and audiovisual industries. Its portfolio tracks music broadcast across 200+ radio stations and 10 music TV channels (Muzicast), distributes new releases from record labels to media contacts (Muzicenter), archives 24/7 radio and TV programming with 3-year retention (Media Archiver), measures political speech timing for CSA regulatory compliance (Talk), and recognizes music played in discotheques via proprietary Boxcast™ hardware for rights organizations such as SACEM and SPRE (Club Monitoring).

Product overview

Yacast offers a unified 360-degree platform for audiovisual media monitoring, centered on five interconnected services: Muzicast (music broadcast tracking), Muzicenter (digital music promotion), Talk (political speech time measurement), Media Archiver (program recording and archiving), and Club Monitoring/Club40 (discotheque music recognition). The company operates its own R&D center and develops all tools and interfaces internally. Products share a common data infrastructure enabling cross-media music tracking and analytics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Muzicast: Leading music broadcast monitoring tool for record labels and radio/TV programmers, providing real-time monitoring of music programming across radio, TV, clubs, and web.
• Muzicenter
• Media Archiver
• Talk
• Club Monitoring

Products and services

• Muzicast Real-time music broadcast monitoring service for record labels and radio/TV programmers, tracking music programming across 200+ French and European radio stations and approximately 10 music television channels, with interactive dashboards, rotation tracking, playlist analysis, and 360° view of music exposure on radio, TV, clubs, and web.
• Muzicenter Digital promotion and distribution platform enabling record labels to upload and deliver new singles, albums, and music videos to media contacts (radio, TV, press, deejays, web) with press kits, social media integration, and concert date references via Songkick.
• Talk Political speech time measurement service for monitoring and reporting political intervention durations on radio and television to support broadcasters' pluralism compliance obligations under French audiovisual law, with specialized operators identifying and timestamping each political intervention for the CSA.
• Media Archiver 24/7 audiovisual program archiving service recording major radio and TV stations with streaming playback, Médiamétrie audience data integration, social media activity display, and annotation/export capabilities spanning 3 years of archives.
• Club Monitoring (Club40) Discotheque music recognition and tracking service using Boxcast™ hardware devices installed on deejay mixers to identify and timestamp music tracks, producing weekly Club40 charts and supporting SACEM, SPRE, and Suisa music rights tracking.
• Boxcast™ proprietary recognition device Proprietary secured hardware device ('black box') connected directly to deejay mixing consoles that records and transfers audio in real-time via Internet to Yacast's production site for music recognition analysis. Sold/deployed as part of the Club Monitoring service offering.

Quantifiable outcome

• Monitoring panel covers 200+ French and European radio stations and 10 music TV channels
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers19 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerYacast performs discotheque monitoring on a specific panel for SACEM and SPRE (Société pour la Perception de la Rémunération Equitable) for copyright royalty collection purposes. This is a long-standing operational partnership for music rights tracking.
• Suisa (Swiss Society for the Rights of Authors)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSuisa has selected Yacast's Boxcast™ system to equip Swiss discotheques for music recognition and royalty tracking, extending Yacast's geographic reach to Switzerland.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Pex: Audio and video content identification platform providing rights management and infringement detection across streaming and user-generated platforms. Comparable emerging competitor to Yacast's audio fingerprinting and rights-tracking capabilities, with broader digital platform coverage.
• Chartmetric: Music industry data and analytics platform providing streaming, radio, social, and playlist tracking for labels, artists, and distributors. Adjacent emerging competitor serving record labels with analytics partially overlapping Yacast's Muzicast offering.
• Soundcharts: Music industry analytics platform serving record labels, publishers, and distributors with streaming, radio airplay, and social data. Comparable emerging player in music industry data and analytics serving similar record label client base as Yacast's Muzicast.

Direct peers

• BMAT Music Innovators: Barcelona-based music identification and reporting company serving collecting societies and music industry stakeholders with audio fingerprinting and broadcast monitoring. Closest direct competitor to Yacast's Muzicast and Boxcast™ offerings, particularly in European rights-society relationships.
• Audible Magic: Audio content identification technology provider serving music rights holders, broadcasters, and platforms with content recognition and rights management. Direct peer to Yacast's Boxcast™ discotheque music recognition technology and broader audio fingerprinting capabilities.
• TuneSat: US-based music monitoring service that tracks broadcast and digital usage of sound recordings for rights holders and collecting societies. Comparable to Yacast in providing audio fingerprinting-based broadcast detection for music rights enforcement and royalty tracking.

Broad incumbents

• Nielsen (Nielsen Music): Global media measurement and audience analytics giant offering broadcast radio and TV ratings alongside music industry data. Comparable broad incumbent whose radio measurement and music industry analytics overlap with Yacast's Muzicast product but at much larger global scale.
• Kantar Media: Global media intelligence firm providing broadcast monitoring, audience measurement, and media analytics. Comparable broad incumbent to Yacast's broadcast monitoring services with significantly larger geographic footprint and broader product portfolio.

Regional players

• Médiamétrie: France's primary audience measurement provider for broadcast and digital media, with whom Yacast already integrates via MediaArchiver. Direct regional peer and partner operating in the same French media measurement ecosystem with complementary rather than overlapping product focus.
• Plurimedia: French media monitoring and editorial intelligence company providing press review, broadcast monitoring, and editorial analysis. Comparable regional player operating in the same French media monitoring space as Yacast's Talk and MediaArchiver products.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Muzicast
• Facebookfacebook.com/muzicast

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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