View Creator Music data

Creator Music is now available to US creators in the YouTube Partner Programme (YPP). Expansion to YPP creators outside of the US is pending.

There are a few different reports that you can download to understand how your content is performing on Creator Music. These reports are available for music label and music publisher partners:

  • Licence fee revenue reports: summary and transactional
  • Usage report

Licence fee revenue reports

Licence fee revenue reports include both a summary and a transactional report. The summary report shows licensing revenue data for each Sound Recording asset ID. The transactional report shows licensing revenue data for each individual transaction.

These reports are available on a monthly basis to partners that earned at least $100 (or the equivalent in local currency) in licensing revenue in a calendar month. To download your licence fee revenue reports:

  1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
  2. From the left menu, select Reports .
  3. At the top of the page, click Financial reports.
  4. In the Licence fee revenue section, select the report that you'd like to download from the Download reports column.
Note: Transaction fees are temporarily set at 0.

Report field descriptions

Licence fee revenue report: summary

Field

Description

asset_id

YouTube-generated ID for the associated Sound Recording asset

asset_title

Title of the Sound Recording asset

asset_label

Asset labels associated with the asset

asset_type

Asset type (e.g. sound recording)

custom_id

Custom IDs associated with the asset

isrc

ISRC associated with the asset

upc

UPC associated with the asset

grid

GRID associated with the asset

artist

Artist associated with the asset (from the asset metadata)

album

Album associated with the asset (from the asset metadata)

licences

# of licences purchased

licence revenue – usd

Licence revenue shown in USD

Licence fee revenue report: transactional

Field

Description

date

Date of purchase

asset_id

YouTube-generated ID for the associated Sound Recording asset

asset_title

Title of the Sound Recording asset

asset_label

Asset labels associated with the asset

asset_type

Asset type (e.g. sound recording)

custom_id

Custom IDs associated with the asset

isrc

ISRC associated with the asset

upc

UPC associated with the asset

grid

GRID associated with the asset

artist

Artist associated with the asset (from the asset metadata)

album

Album associated with the asset (from the asset metadata)

transaction type

License purchase/refund: licence (negative value)

retail price - usd

Price indicated by partners per segment in the licence strategy

final partner earnings - usd

Licence revenue calculated as:

final_partner_earnings: (item_revenue_usd_micros – transaction_fee ($0))* split * ownership_percentage

Usage report

The usage report shows views on licensed videos grouped by Sound Recording asset. This report is available on a monthly basis. To download your usage report:

  1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
  2. From the left menu, select Reports .
  3. At the top of the page, click Licensing.
  4. In the Usage section, select the report that you'd like to download from the Download reports column.
Note: Data in the usage report is anonymised if it falls below a certain threshold. If there aren't enough viewers in a given country, no views will be reported.

Report field descriptions

Usage report

Field

Description

month

Month of the report

country

Country of the viewer

asset_id

YouTube-generated ID for the associated Sound Recording asset

asset_title

Title of the Sound Recording asset

asset_label

Asset labels associated with the asset

asset_type

Asset type (e.g. sound recording)

custom_id

Custom IDs associated with the asset

isrc

ISRC associated with the asset

upc

UPC associated with the asset

grid

GRID associated with the asset

artist

Artist associated with the asset (from the asset metadata)

album

Album associated with the asset (from the asset metadata)

views

# of views on licensed video

For information on what assets are licensable, you may be able to export data on asset licensability.

Revenue sharing data

To check your Creator Music revenue sharing earnings:

  1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
  2. From the left menu, select Reports .
  3. Download your monthly financial reports.
  4. From the left menu, select Claimed videos .
  5. Export a list of claimed videos.
  6. Filter the exported file by 'Revenue sharing with uploader'.
  7. Match these video IDs with the video IDs from your financial reports.

Creator revenue sharing financial summary report

The Creator revenue sharing financial summary report contains the revenue and views generated by your revenue sharing assets, and will only be generated when such revenue/views occur for the month.

  1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
  2. From the left menu, select Reports .
  3. At the top of the page, click Financial reports.
  4. In the 'Ads Revenue' and 'Subscription Revenue' section, select the Video revenue sharing report from the 'Download reports' column.

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