For uploaders
Royalties & sync licensing
Music can earn in more than one way at once. This page names the nine royalty types, who pays them, where you register, and typical setup cost. You can choose to give us 6% for each royalty we help you collect, or pay us £50 flat per royalty to set it up. The listed fees are for the UK or the US, mainly the UK.
Sync licensing is further down, with the catalogue sales splits from For Artists and our terms.
Nine types of royalties
These are the usual industry categories — composition on one side, the recording on the other. Who pays, where you typically register, and the usual setup cost are listed for each type. Society names (PRS, MCPS, PPL), distributors, pitching platforms, and fees are examples of how those royalties usually work — not Deep Dripz charges, and not a claim that Deep Dripz is those societies. Fees can change. You can choose to give us 6% for each royalty we help you collect, or pay us £50 flat per royalty to set it up. The listed fees are for the UK or the US, mainly the UK.
01
Mechanical royalties
Paid when a composition is reproduced — downloads, CDs, vinyl, and the mechanical share of streams.
- Who pays it
- Streaming services and retailers
- Where you register
- MCPS (joined alongside PRS for Music)
- Setup cost
- £100 one-off
If we assist6% if we collect this type, or £50 to set it up instead. Society and distributor setup fees above are separate.
02
Performance royalties
Paid when a composition is performed in public — radio, TV, venues, shops, and streams.
- Who pays it
- Venues, broadcasters, platforms
- Where you register
- PRS for Music
- Setup cost
- £100 one-off · £30 if under 25
If we assist6% if we collect this type, or £50 to set it up instead. Society and distributor setup fees above are separate.
03
Synchronisation royalties
Paid when a composition is licensed to picture — film, TV, ads, games, trailers. The fee is negotiated per use; broadcast of the finished picture can also trigger performance royalties.
- Who pays it
- Production companies, direct
- Where you register
- No society — fee negotiated per use, or via a pitching platform e.g. Music Gateway
- Setup cost
- £0 · direct deals free · platform ~£96/yr
If we assist6% if we collect this type, or £50 to set it up instead. Society and distributor setup fees above are separate.
04
Neighbouring rights
Paid when a recording is broadcast or played in public — separate from the composition side.
- Who pays it
- Venues, broadcasters, platforms
- Where you register
- PPL
- Setup cost
- £0 · free to join
If we assist6% if we collect this type, or £50 to set it up instead. Society and distributor setup fees above are separate.
05
Digital performance royalties
Paid when a recording is used on non-interactive digital radio — webcasts, satellite radio.
- Who pays it
- Webcasters and satellite radio
- Where you register
- SoundExchange (US) or the local neighbouring-rights society
- Setup cost
- £0 · free · 4–6% admin fee on payouts
If we assist6% if we collect this type, or £50 to set it up instead. Society and distributor setup fees above are separate.
06
Master / recording royalties
Paid when the recording is sold, downloaded, or streamed — the master share, not the composition share.
- Who pays it
- DSPs (Spotify, Apple, and similar)
- Where you register
- A digital distributor — e.g. Ditto Music
- Setup cost
- £19–59/yr
If we assist6% if we collect this type, or £50 to set it up instead. Society and distributor setup fees above are separate.
07
Print royalties
Paid when a composition is sold as sheet music or in a songbook, on paper or digital.
- Who pays it
- Publishers, print retailers
- Where you register
- No society — direct agreement with a print publisher
- Setup cost
- £0 · only if relevant
If we assist6% if we collect this type, or £50 to set it up instead. Society and distributor setup fees above are separate.
08
Micro-sync royalties
Paid when a composition is matched to user-generated video — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram.
- Who pays it
- Content ID and rights-manager systems
- Where you register
- Bundled into the distributor account (master / recording royalties) — or a standalone aggregator, 5–20% cut
- Setup cost
- £0 · included with the distributor on most plans
If we assist6% if we collect this type, or £50 to set it up instead. Society and distributor setup fees above are separate.
09
Producer royalties
A contractual share of master income for the producer — “points” on the recording.
- Who pays it
- Set out in the producer agreement
- Where you register
- No society — private contract between artist/label and producer
- Setup cost
- £0 · contractual, not registered
If we assist6% if we collect this type, or £50 to set it up instead. Society and distributor setup fees above are separate.
Sync licensing
Sync deals — licensing music for use in film, TV, and adverts — are one of the ways independent artists actually get paid when streaming payouts alone do not cover the work.
A synchronisation (sync) licence is permission to pair your composition and/or your master recording with moving image: film, television, commercials, trailers, games, and branded content. The licensee pays a fee for that use. If the finished picture is then broadcast or streamed, performance and neighbouring-rights royalties can still be due on top.
Deep Dripz is a studio and label home, not a streaming platform. Full tracks released with us stay exclusive here so a download is worth buying. Short previews can live on other platforms. Sync is a separate use of the work — placing the recording or the song in picture — and is agreed in writing for that placement.
Deep Dripz Entertainment Studios
How Deep Dripz can help with your royalties
When Deep Dripz Entertainment Studios helps you collect a royalty, we take 6% of what that royalty pays you. That 6% is the admin cost of the help. It applies separately to each royalty type we assist with — if we help with three types, we take 6% of each of those three, not one 6% on the lot. If we do not help collect a type, we take nothing from it.
If you would rather not pay 6% for collection help, you can pay a flat £50 for us to help set up each royalty type instead. That is our fee for the paperwork to register that type. It is £50 per type, not £50 for the lot, because each type has its own forms.
These options are for anyone who wants that help, contracted or not — Artist, Musician, Producer, Engineer, Beat maker, Composer, Creative director, DJ, Manager, Photographer, Videographer, Editor, or Content creator, or whatever you joined as. Not artists only.
- Artist
- Musician
- Producer
- Engineer
- Beat maker
- Composer
- Creative director
- DJ
- Manager
- Photographer
- Videographer
- Editor
- Content creator
Admin share on each royalty we help collect
6%
You keep 94% of each royalty type we help collect. Society, distributor, and pitching-platform fees in the list above are charged by those organisations, not by Deep Dripz.
Instead of 6% — set-up assistance
£50per royalty type
£50 is our assistance to set that type up. You then collect that type yourself — we do not take 6% of it. Society and distributor fees in the list above are still charged by those organisations.
UK and US
The society and distributor fees in the list above, and these Deep Dripz assistance prices, are for people in the UK or the US — mainly the UK. In other countries the process and the fee can be different. Collecting there often needs people who speak the language and know the local societies, so we would have to hire specialists. That quote is separate.
This is not the catalogue sales splits: £2.50 per download and merch 85% or 60% stay as they are below.
Exclusive / contract extras stay separate: 33% off studio and production session fees, plus a merch pack if you save a shipping address. You do not need that contract to ask for this help, and those extras are not the 6% or the £50.