Success Stories: How Just-ROYALTIES Transformed Royalty Reporting for Media Industry Professionals

The explosion of content across digital platforms has introduced massive opportunities but also massive complexity. From television and film production companies to music publishers and rights holders, managing royalties accurately, transparently, and efficiently has become one of the media industry’s most time-consuming and error-prone challenges.

For decades, media professionals have struggled with tangled data, missing payments, opaque financial processes, and manual reporting systems that simply aren’t scalable. As the industry has evolved with the rise of streaming platforms, global content licensing, and diverse revenue models, the pressure on royalty management teams has only intensified.

It was in response to these challenges that Just-ROYALTIES was developed. As a game-changing royalty management solution from Creative Total Media, Just-ROYALTIES is reshaping how media companies handle rights, track usage, distribute earnings, and ensure compliance. It’s not just a tool, it’s a transformative platform that has helped countless media professionals streamline operations, reduce errors, and gain full confidence in their royalty processes.

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A Better Way for Production Companies to Manage Licensing Revenue

For production houses managing a catalogue of shows or films, licensing content to broadcasters, streaming platforms, and syndication partners is a major revenue stream but also a major headache. Each licensing deal often comes with its own terms: flat fees, revenue shares, minimum guarantees, and regional restrictions. Keeping tabs on these details, calculating accurate royalty payouts, and reconciling earnings across multiple platforms and partners is a complex, spreadsheet-heavy process. Errors are common, audits are stressful, and transparency is often hard to achieve.

Just-ROYALTIES changes the game. By automating the ingestion of usage data and applying contract-specific rules for each licensing agreement, production teams can finally say goodbye to cumbersome manual processes. The platform simplifies royalty calculations, handles complex revenue splits, and generates detailed, audit-ready reports in a fraction of the time.

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Key Benefits for Production Houses:

• Automatic tracking of earnings by show, region, or platform, ensuring accurate and up-to-date financial visibility.

• Custom rules for license types (e.g., flat fee vs. revenue share), removing ambiguity and ensuring precise calculations.

• Bulk statement generation for internal teams and external stakeholders, cutting down on administrative work.

• Clear audit trails, enhancing transparency and building trust with partners and investors.

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Music Publishers Reclaim Control Over Catalogue Royalties

For music publishers, the challenges of royalty management are even more pronounced. Managing royalty splits across hundreds or thousands of songs, each with different rights holders, such as writers, composers, and producers, requires immense effort. Adding to this complexity are the multiple distribution platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc.) and regional collection societies, each with their own reporting standards and timelines.

Before Just-ROYALTIES, publishers often faced delays in payment processing, inaccurate statements, and opaque accounting that strained relationships with artists and partners.

Just-ROYALTIES could solve these problems by offering a centralised platform that imports all distribution and performance data, applies contractual royalty splits, and generates detailed earnings reports for each composition and contributor. What once took weeks, chasing down reports, cross-referencing spreadsheets, and correcting errors can now be accomplished in hours, with full accuracy.

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Key Benefits for Music Publishers:

• Royalty splits handled automatically based on song metadata, eliminating manual calculations and reducing errors.

• Multiple income streams, including sync, mechanical, performance, and digital royalties, consolidated into one system.

• Contributor dashboards and customisable statement formats for clear, professional reporting to artists and rights holders.

• Transparent reconciliation across platforms and territories, ensuring publishers and artists receive what they’re owed, when they’re owed.

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Broadcasters & Distributors Simplify Reporting for Third-Party Content

Broadcasters and media distributors face their own set of challenges when it comes to royalty reporting. These companies often work with multiple third-party content owners, offering them a share of revenue based on ad impressions, syndication deals, or subscription models. Manually tracking every asset’s performance across diverse revenue models is a massive task, one that drains operational resources and can lead to disputes over payments.

With Just-ROYALTIES, broadcasters and distributors can set up automated pipelines that ingest data, specific to each partner. Payment reports are generated instantly, ready for review, approval, and distribution. This not only saves time but also builds trust with partners by ensuring transparency and accuracy.

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Key Benefits for Broadcasters & Distributors:

• Fast and accurate reconciliation of third-party content revenue, regardless of volume or complexity.

• Real-time dashboards for partners to track their earnings and understand payment breakdowns.

• Configurable workflows for approvals, audits, and dispute resolution, streamlining processes and reducing friction.

• Improved transparency, which strengthens relationships with partners and stakeholders.

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Built for Compliance and Future-Proofed Growth

What makes Just-ROYALTIES especially powerful is its forward-thinking design. Built specifically for the media industry, the platform incorporates features that ensure compliance with global data privacy and financial regulations such as GDPR-ready data management, regional tax handling, and secure cloud infrastructure.

As the media landscape continues to expand globally with more platforms, more micro-transactions, and increasingly complex usage metrics, solutions like Just-ROYALTIES are no longer optional. They’re essential for companies looking to future-proof their operations, scale with confidence, and avoid the financial pitfalls of outdated, manual systems.

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Simplicity That Scales with You

Just-ROYALTIES was designed by media professionals who understand the unique challenges of the industry. It simplifies what was once a chaotic, error-prone process and makes royalty reporting straightforward and scalable, no matter how many contributors, territories, or distribution channels are involved.

No more chasing down spreadsheets. No more unclear statements. No more lost revenue.

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Final Thoughts: The Future of Royalty Reporting Is Here

The digital media world is evolving fast, and the systems used to track and report royalties must evolve just as quickly. Whether you’re producing the next big streaming hit, publishing chart-topping music, or managing content rights across multiple territories, Just-ROYALTIES is redefining what it means to have clarity and confidence in your financial reporting.

For media professionals, Just-ROYALTIES isn’t just another tool, it’s a complete transformation of the royalty reporting process. It empowers companies to focus on what they do best: creating content that resonates, while leaving the complexities of royalty management to a trusted, automated system.

The future of royalty reporting is here, and with Just-ROYALTIES, it’s never been more accurate, efficient, and transparent.

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