🎯What is YouTube Content ID?

YouTube Content ID is a powerful digital fingerprinting system that helps copyright owners identify and manage their content on YouTube. When your music is delivered to YouTube Content ID, it’s scanned across YouTube’s entire platform. If someone uses your music in their video, Content ID can automatically claim that video and monetize it on your behalf.

⚙️How Does It Work?

• Your audio is fingerprinted and scanned against all uploads on YouTube
• If a match is found, a claim is placed on the video
• Monetization is applied and you earn revenue from ads
• You can track all your claimed content in our royalty dashboard

🎵What Are YouTube Art Tracks?

Note that YouTube Art Tracks are completely separate from Content ID. An Art Track is automatically generated by YouTube using your audio, album art, and metadata (ISRC & UPC codes). These tracks are part of YouTube’s official music catalog and show up in playlists, search results, and the YouTube Music app.

Just like Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer, Mahla Sangeet Distribution delivers your music to YouTube Art Tracks by default — no additional steps needed. Art Tracks are also monetized and revenue appears in your royalty reports.

🚫What Content is NOT Eligible for YouTube Content ID

• Your track is AI-generated
• Your track is a cover version, mashup, compilation, remix or karaoke version of another song—or even sounds like another recording
• You have used non-exclusive beats
• Your track contains samples, beats, loops, sound effects, or other audio from sample libraries
• The audio contains public-domain content
• The audio contains ambient sound effects
• Your track is a recording of a live performance
• Your track is already registered for Content ID with another provider
• We have copyright infringement claims on your label

📩How to Apply for YouTube Content ID via Mahla Sangeet

Eligible releases are delivered directly to YouTube Content ID for automated rights protection and monetization. This allows you to identify, claim, and earn revenue from videos that use your music across the platform.