DistroKid offers an optional upgrade called "Social Media Pack." When you opt into Social Media Pack, we'll add your audio to YouTube's Content ID system, which scours YouTube for videos that use your music. When a match is found, ads show on the video and you'll get the ad revenue.
If you have a video on YouTube that uses your own music, you'll likely get an email from YouTube that there's been a copyright claim against it. This is nothing to worry about--it's YouTube's Content ID system doing its thing. You can safely ignore the message. Ads will appear on your video & we'll send you the money earned.
YouTube may say the copyright claim is from "Interstreet Recordings." Interstreet Recordings is the engine that helps power DistroKid's "YouTube Content ID" feature. You can safely ignore the email. They'll send the ad revenue to DistroKid, and DistroKid will send it to you.
If you opt into YouTube Content ID but want to allow specific videos to use your music without Content ID claims, you can do so here.
Note: If your video says 'provided to YouTube by DistroKid,' (in other words, the video is a generated 'Art Track') it is ineligible to be allowlisted.
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