Users can identify performances of both legacy and new recordings on TV, film, radio, and other audio-visual media to create comprehensive reports for their PROs
June 4, 2026 (Los Angeles) — SourceAudio, the music industry’s most widely adopted sync platform and the market leader in large-scale, fully cleared music licensing for AI training, has expanded its SourceAudio Detect music monitoring service to include next-generation neural fingerprinting as well as watermarking, making it the first tool of its kind to use both methods to identify licensed music in TV, film, radio, and other programs, commercials, promos, and trailers with industry-best detection accuracy. SourceAudio users can add music-monitoring services to their membership for an additional fee based on catalog size.
Through SourceAudio Detect, imperceptible watermarks using state-of-the-art Digimarc technology are applied to songs for easy monitoring, while neural-fingerprints, specially trained on years of real-world detectionsare also used to identify usages of legacy tracks. SourceAudio monitors music across more than 85 major TV networks, 217 radio stations in the top 20 U.S. markets, YouTube, and is able to add custom channels at request. SourceAudio Detect users can easily export this data into PRO-compliant formats to submit to PROs, ensuring they have everything they need to receive all their royalties 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,” said Andrew Harding, Co-Founder & CEO at SourceAudio. “Several PROs have been accepting our data for years, and this new upgrade to SourceAudio Detect will allow even more rightsholders to collect every penny they are owed from their copyrights through greater transparency and robust, accurate data collection.
SourceAudio Detect provides users with a myriad of benefits including:
- Detections in as fast as 0.2 seconds
- Elimination of false positives
- Industry-best detection accuracy
- Proof of usage clips
- Easy data exports in PRO-compliant formats
- Identification of legacy content
- Support for various file types
SourceAudio Detect is the latest innovation in SourceAudio’s mission to increase revenue for music rightsholders while utilizing technology to ensure control, protection, and transparency every step of the way. In May 2025, SourceAudio launched its AI music dataset licensing marketplace, aggregating over 14 million opted-in songs from its network of over 3,000 music catalogs, including independent labels and premium-quality production music libraries, to deliver diverse, high-quality datasets tailored to real-world commercial use cases. Deals are already in place with ElevenLabs, Music.AI, Musical AI, Native Instruments, and more – and are approaching $10 million in incremental revenue, providing new annual recurring payments to the artists, labels, and publishers who opted in. This has established an entirely new and promising stream of licensing revenue that properly values music while enabling rapid technological innovation.
To learn more about SourceAudio, visit sourceaudio.com. To learn more about SourceAudio Detect, visit sourceaudio.com/music-monitoring.
About SourceAudio
SourceAudio is the music industry’s leading platform for fully cleared music licensing, operating at unmatched scale across sync, commercial media, brands, and AI. Serving more than 700,000 users and aggregating over 37 million songs from thousands of rightsholders, SourceAudio connects licensors and licensees through a single, reliable pipeline for music discovery, curation, licensing, delivery, tracking, and payments. Increasingly relied upon as a single point of access for music and rights at scale, SourceAudio reduces fragmentation and complexity for partners while expanding large-scale licensing opportunities across TV, film, radio, advertising, digital media, and AI while unlocking durable, recurring revenue for artists, labels, and publishers. For more information, visit sourceaudio.com.