MusicInfra has signed a strategic partnership with The Royalty Network, a top-10 independent U.S. music publisher managing over 800,000 musical works, to tackle the persistent revenue leakage problem that costs rights holders significant royalty income every year.
The partnership plugs MusicInfra’s backend technology directly into YouTube’s Content Management System to surface under-collected songs, link unmatched recordings to their underlying compositions, and resolve ownership conflicts — all at scale.
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The problem they’re solving
Revenue leakage in digital music isn’t a new problem, but it remains a massive one. Songs get uploaded without proper metadata, recordings aren’t linked to their compositions, and ownership disputes leave money sitting uncollected. For a publisher like The Royalty Network — whose catalog spans everything from Bollywood to dancehall to heavy metal across linguistic and geographic boundaries — the metadata nightmare is especially acute.
“We have chosen to partner with MusicInfra not just because their technology aligns neatly with our own data operations, but also because of their respect and understanding for the bedrock challenges inherent to music publishing, particularly at scale,” said Danny Abowd, President and General Counsel of The Royalty Network.
Why it matters
This is MusicInfra’s second major partnership after linking up with Reactional Music in late 2025. The company, backed by MiddleGame Ventures, Raine, and UTA Ventures, is positioning itself as essential infrastructure for an industry that has long struggled with the gap between how much music is consumed and how much actually gets paid out correctly. If MusicInfra can prove its matching technology works at The Royalty Network’s scale, it could set a template for the rest of the publishing industry.
MusicInfra is a New York-based company whose leadership includes veterans from Hipgnosis, YouTube, Spotify, Meta, and Gracenote.
