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A Royalty Audit is a detailed examination of royalty payments, contracts, and agreements to ensure accuracy, fairness, and compliance. Whether you’re an artist, publisher, software developer, or brand owner, a royalty audit ensures you’re paid what you’re owed.
Identify Underpayments: Detect errors, discrepancies, or intentional underreporting.
Ensure Compliance: Confirm licensees are following contractual terms and reporting accurately.
Optimise Revenue Streams: Discover opportunities for better licensing agreements and improved revenue collection.
Royalty Audits are essential for:
🎵 Music Artists & Record Labels – Ensure accurate reporting from streaming platforms, distributors, and licensees.
📚 Authors & Publishers – Verify royalty statements from publishers, eBook platforms, and resellers.
💼 Software Developers & SaaS Providers – Monitor licensing agreements and ensure compliance from users.
🎬 Film & TV Rights Holders – Track royalties from streaming, distribution, and syndication deals.
🛒 Brand Owners & Franchisors – Ensure accurate payments from licensees and franchisees.
📈 Any Business with Licensing Agreements – If your revenue relies on royalties, audits are critical to protect your interests.
At MetaAudits, we take the complexity out of royalty audits—giving you clarity and control over your revenue.
Expert Analysis: Our auditors are specialists in entertainment, publishing, software, and brand licensing, ensuring a thorough and accurate audit.
End-to-End Service: From contract review to audit execution, we handle everything so you don’t have to.
Transparent Reporting: Receive clear, actionable reports that highlight discrepancies, underpayments, and areas for improvement.
Dispute Resolution Support: If discrepancies arise, we provide you with the evidence and insights needed to resolve issues swiftly.
Maximised Revenue: Identify gaps, optimise contracts, and ensure you’re getting every penny you deserve.
Cost-Effective & Scalable: Whether you’re an independent artist or a major corporation, we tailor our approach to fit your needs.
By focusing on understanding the business and the overall systems and controls. This enables you to identify deficiencies and allows you to target these deficienies to increase productivity and control compliance
Having your internal controls and processes verified by an external independent auditor can lead to more credibility within your industry.
Ensures that you are compliant with statutory requirements and regulations within your industry. Including; GDPR, DPA 2018, PECR among others.
Ensure that your third parties and suppliers are compliant with your contract terms and statutory requirements and regulations. Including requirements under GDPR and DPA 2018
Alignment or certification to an Industry Standard such as ISO 27001 will reduce risk and improves security of customer and clients data
Being able to confirm to potential clients that you successfully manage your supply chain and your internal processes will increase theire confidence in doing business with you.