YouTube Shorts monetization is now live. Here’s what else is new in June.
Updated July 9, 2026
June was a build-heavy month across our licensing, YouTube, and Collect businesses. We launched a major upgrade to our music-monitoring service, invested in faster and more accurate royalty processing, moved several enterprise integrations forward, and kept partner earnings steady in a soft market. Here’s the roundup.
Introducing the New SourceAudio Detect
Our biggest news this month: we expanded SourceAudio Detect to combine next-generation neural fingerprinting with watermarking–the first music-monitoring tool of its kind to use both. Rightsholders can now identify performances of both legacy and brand-new recordings across TV, film, radio, and other media with industry-best accuracy. We monitor across 85+ major TV networks, 217 radio stations in the top 20 U.S. markets, and YouTube, with custom channels on request. Users can export everything into PROcompliant formats to collect every royalty they’re owed.
“Labels, publishers, and other music rightsholders need the tools to independently verify their public performances and, by extension, recapture the royalties from usages that are often missed or underreported. This new upgrade will allow even more rightsholders to collect every penny they are owed.”
— Andrew Harding, Co-Founder & CEO
What Detect delivers:
- Detections in as fast as 0.2 seconds
- Elimination of false positives and industry-best detection accuracy
- Proof-of-usage clips and identification of legacy content
- Easy data exports in PRO-compliant formats, with support for various file types
What’s New in SourceAudio Collect
We know accurate, on-time statements matter more than almost anything for our Collect clients. This month, we rolled out redesigned statement layouts and quarterly business reviews and completed reviews across the October, January, and April distribution periods.
Behind the scenes, we kicked off a major initiative to automate royalty reconciliation and payments end-to-end. The goal is straightforward: get statements and disbursements out faster and with fewer manual touchpoints, so more of our energy goes toward growing your catalog’s earnings.
Deeper Broadcast & Enterprise Integrations
We advanced work on enterprise single sign-on and on new integrations for post-production and broadcast workflows. The aim is to make it simpler for large partners to plug SourceAudio into the tools their teams already use every day, reducing friction for the biggest catalogs and content operations we serve.
Protecting Creator Revenue on YouTube
YouTube Shorts monetization is now live. Anyone running Content ID with us automatically earns from Shorts on top of standard Content ID–additional monetization that few other Content ID admins offer. If your catalog is with us, this benefit is already working for you, no action required.
Content ID revenue is under pressure industry-wide, but our team’s work kept partner earnings steady through June rather than letting them slide with the market. We also onboarded new catalogs, including a new international library.
What’s Ahead
- New data and licensing partnerships in the works to expand where your music earns
- Continued automation of Collect statements and payments
- AAF file delivery: a new delivery format for post-production workflows, targeted for late summer
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Big tools, smart partnerships, and a stronger platform. Let’s keep building.
— Your SourceAudio Team
Thousands of companies already rely on SourceAudio to search, license, and track music at scale. If you’re ready to work smarter with your music catalog, we’d love to show you what’s possible.
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