Get paid for every airing.
ONTRK is royalty gap analysis for composers. It will hear your music on TV and flag the airings your PRO never paid. Monitoring opens very soon.
Aired is not the same as paid.
Monitoring tells you what aired. Your statement tells you what paid. ONTRK puts them side by side and flags the gap.
How it works
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Add your PRO statements. 7 days free, no card.
Add Monitoring
It opens very soon. Pick a plan and we start watching TV for your tracks.
See what was never paid
Every airing is checked against your statements. Unpaid ones are flagged.
Everything in one place.
Find the airings nobody paid you for.
- Your music is fingerprinted once and heard on every channel we cover.
- Each airing is checked against the statement that should have paid it.
- Nothing is flagged before its money could have arrived.
Read your statement in a minute.
- Top works, every show, every territory, from the CSV your society sends.
- What each performance paid, channel by channel.
- The free reader runs in your browser. Your file never leaves your computer.
Learn which of your music is working.
- Your most played cues, ranked by airings and by shows.
- Which libraries and productions keep using your work.
- Channel, show, date and seconds used for every airing.
50 channels. The ones that matter.
The big US networks, the cable channels where library music lives, and the top channels in 8 more countries, monitored by BMAT. Detection opens very soon.
US networks
US cable
20 channelsInternational
22 channelsEvery channel comes with every Monitoring plan. Need one we are not on? Tell us.
Good to know.
Detection starts with your plan
Airings from before your Monitoring plan began cannot be found.
Foreign income has less detail
We show how much of your statement can be checked.
Your PRO decides
We build the inquiry the way your society wants it.
Who makes ONTRK
ONTRK is made by Marc Aaron Jacobs, founder of Tonal Chaos, Inc., which runs Tonal Chaos Trailers, DropCue and ONTRK. He is also a composer, and ONTRK began as the tool he wrote to read his own royalty statements. Questions go to hello@ontrk.app and reach him directly.
Coming from TRQK? See the TRQK alternative.
Questions composers ask.
Why does a royalty statement not show a performance I know aired?
A statement lists what a society PAID you. It is not a record of what went out on air. If a performance was never reported to the society, or was reported against the wrong work, there is simply no line for it, so the money is not disputed, it is invisible. Finding it needs a second source: what actually aired, compared against what settled.
Can a royalty statement be checked against airplay?
Only for the part of it that carries a performance count. Societies differ: on one real set of statements, 99% of SESAC lines, 87% of BMI lines and 43% of ASCAP lines carried a count. A line with money and no count cannot be compared against an airing at all, and saying what share is checkable is the honest starting point.
Is my royalty statement uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is read in your browser. Only the extracted rows are stored, and columns that identify a person (party and member IDs, recipient names, IPI and CAE numbers, tax IDs and addresses) are removed before anything is written.
What currency is a foreign royalty statement in?
Often the export does not say, and the society's country does not decide it. JASRAC is Japanese and supplies a US dollar column beside the yen; BMI converts foreign income before paying, so it is still dollars. Guessing from the country is wrong often enough to move a total by tens of percent, so ONTRK asks and marks every converted figure approximate.
How short a use can ONTRK detect?
As short as 2 seconds. Detection is powered by BMAT, whose shortest reliable match is 2 seconds, so stings, bumpers and 5 to 10 second uses are caught. Upload the full mix: 60, 30 and 15 second cutdowns are matched from it, so they do not need uploading on their own.
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