YouTube splits Shorts ad money into two pools — a Creator Pool and a Music Pool. You've only ever been paid from the first. Use our catalog and we share the second with you, starting at 50/50.
A few of the recent partner videos using tracks from our catalog right now.
// live network — numbers grow every week
We don't partner with anonymous accounts. Here are a few of the creators currently active in the network — you can verify every one of them yourself.
True Crime
The initiative is backed by the team behind Persistence Prevails — a True Crime channel with 700,000+ subscribers and a long track record on YouTube. We built this network because we needed it ourselves.
True Crime
An active network partner producing Shorts with our catalog and generating consistent Music Pool revenue.
True Crime
Proof that you don't need 500K subs to make this work. Active in the network and earning backend revenue from their Shorts.
These are just a few of our partners. The network includes creators across True Crime, gaming, lifestyle, faceless, motivation, and more — from channels just getting started to those with millions of views per month.
Apply to join them →Both screenshots below are from the exact same video — a partner Short with 4.7 million views. Left: what YouTube paid the creator in ad revenue. Right: what the same video generated in Music Pool revenue through our network.
This is the normal Shorts ad revenue every monetized creator sees in YouTube Studio. It stays exactly the same whether you use our music or not.
This is the backend music revenue from the same video — money that would have gone to a major label. Because we own the masters, we share it with the creator.
Approved creators start at 50%. As performance scales, your share of the Music Pool does too.
Exact thresholds are shared with creators during onboarding. Tier placement is reviewed quarterly based on verified channel performance.
No plugins, no new software, no changes to the way you make Shorts. You just swap the background music.
Submit your channel and choose a password. Qualified channels are approved instantly — you're in your portal in under a minute. Everyone else is reviewed manually within 1–2 business days.
Find the track in your portal, then search the exact title in YouTube's audio library and drop it into your Shorts as background audio. Upload exactly like you normally do. Nothing else about your workflow changes.
We track the Music Pool revenue your videos generate on the backend and pay your tiered share directly, on a reliable monthly schedule.
YouTube doesn't pay Shorts creators like long-form. The ad revenue gets pooled, then split in two. Here's the part most creators miss.
Distributed to Shorts creators based on views. This is your normal Shorts ad revenue.
Paid to rights-holders of music used in Shorts. Usually routed to major labels and their artists. You normally see $0 of this.
Everyone starts at 50/50. As your viewership grows, you unlock higher tiers and keep a larger percentage of the music revenue.
You don't need to be in the YouTube Partner Program. Unmonetized channels can start generating backend music revenue on day one.
Your regular Creator Pool earnings stay exactly the same. This is bonus income pulled from a pool you were giving away to big labels anyway.
Every approved creator gets a dashboard showing exactly how much music revenue their videos generated, broken down per video, per month.
Secure, on-schedule transfers. No vague timelines, no "next quarter" excuses. You earn it, we pay it.
We run channels too. We understand the algorithm, the grind, the metrics that matter. This isn't a label — it's a creator network.
Every applicant is reviewed by our team. Approved creators start at a 50% Music Pool share with clear, performance-based pathways to Growth (65%) and Elite (80%) tiers. No contracts that lock you in, no exclusivity traps.
Apply once. Get reviewed. Start earning backend revenue from content you were making anyway.
Apply to the network →