Distribute to Youtube Audio Content ID requires a Label approval since November 18th, 2021.
To activate Youtube Content ID for your Label and monetize your music used on all Youtube’s videos, you need to complete the process below. Our Quality Control team will review your Request and check if your Music or/and Music Label meets the necessary Requirements according Youtube Rules.

Follow steps below to Request approval:

•  Request permission:

* In your CimaSync Account, go in Tab “Catalog” then click on Tab “Labels”

* Select the Label. Note that you can’t request approval for CimaSync Distribution Label, it must be your own Label.
Check how to create your own label

* Afterward, click the ‘DSP Authorizations’ tab and select ‘Request Authorization.

• Download the form:

* Download form here CimaSync Youtube Audio Content ID Label Approval

* Complete the form with all necessary information, including Label Name, etc

Be careful because if the form is not fill correctly, Approval of your Label will be rejected.

•  Send us form fully filled by email:

* Please send the form to: support@cimasyncdistribution.com

* Don’t forget to put Object: “Youtube Audio Content ID Label Approval Request”

•  You will receive a reply by email if approval of your label is approved or rejected.

* If you haven’t received any updates for several days, please send us another email.

•  When you received validation that your label has been approved, you have to distribute all Releases on this Channel (even if these Releases have already been distributed on other Channels, you have to do it again for this Channel cause it’s not automatic)

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2. Links and webpages. The cover art must not contain website addresses, websites that sell music, mention to social media, logos of any store or services related to entertainment, mention to phisical formats, or any external reference of the digital release.

3. Credits and collaborations. The cover art can include Credit or other artist’s names who are not the primary artist of the release, always in a precise form and without any type of abbreviattion. The introduced information in the cover will have to be reproduced with extreme precision in the metadata and vice versa.

And, similarly, expressions like “all rights reserved” – or equivalent – cannot be used. Not even other redundant or unnecessary information.

The release reference number can appear in the cover, but not the release’s UPC or any track’s ISRC codes.

4. Tracklisting and illegible texts. The cover art must not contain track listing, as the image will be generally visualized in small formats and it won’t be able to appreciate small size texts.

In general, is recommended to use legible fonts in the cover, specially for the sizing.

5. Descriptions and biographies. The cover art must not include albums’ descriptions, nor artist’s biographies.

6. Telephone or email addresses. The cover art must not contain any telephone number and email addresses.

7. Digital Product. The cover art must not include references to it being a digital product.

8. Pricing. The cover art must not include References to Pricing, nor any information with promotional purposes.

9. Pornography. The cover art must not contain pornography or to do any violence apology, neither a URL of any website that contains or links to pornography content.

10. Misleading information. The cover art must not be misleading. For example, prominently depicting or referencing an artist even though the artist does not perform on the album.

11. Missing Content. The cover art must not contain references to content that the album doesn’t contain, such as “included DVD” or “includes lyrics.”

12. Offensive Symbolism. The cover art must not contain any kind of symbolism that offends a specific group of persons or ethnicities, such as nazi symbolism restricted by the Strafgesetzbuch section 86a.

13. Irrelevant information. The cover art must not include additional information which are irrelevant to the content’s identification, such as album descriptions, artist biography, music genre, instrument with which the album is executed, credits or any text incorporing merely ornamental characters that do not guard an explicit relation with the content.

Preferably in occidental languages contents, it is necessary to avoid the use of extraoccidental or special characters – such as the Asian or Arabic characters, among others – until they guard an explicit, justifiable and coherent relation with the content.

14. Dimensions of cover art. The cover art of all releases must accomplish with all following requirements:

• Proportion: Exactly squared
• Minimum size: 3000 x 3000px
• Maximum size: 5000 x 5000px
• Accepted formats: JPG, TIFF or PNG
• Mode: RGB (CMYK is not acceptable)
• Maximum size of file: 36 MB

The images which do not accomplish with all the above requirement will not be acceptable and may not be shown in the channels.

15. Logos, images and registered brand. Every logo appearing in the cover must be justified in the metadata, including the involved texts. These logos will be accepted if they guard clear relation with the album’s content and explain some relevant information – producer, artist, label, etc. Designers or artists -who created the cover design- mentions won’t be accepted as any other external content that isn’t involved with the release directly.

Any registered brand can appear in the cover, or any other person / company / property images institution. Is totally prohibited the explicit or implicit promotion of them.

Their appearance in the cover will only be accepted if they are visually irrelevant and it can only  help to clarify the cover’s intention, and not to promote any product, brand, institution or company.

Note: a company name or logo will be able to appear in the cover and/or in the metadata only if it accomplishes some relevant role in the release (in a musical or/and publishing point of view), and remain justified in the metadata (for example: as a producer or publisher).

In addition, it will be necessary to report documentation to prove the consent of the involved mentioned institution to use its name.

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Once you have created your CimaSync account, you will be able to access our distribution platform. Then, just follow these few steps to upload your first album or single on more than 220 stores of your choice with CimaSync Distribution:

1> Press the “Create a release” button

2> Upload cover art and fill your single/album informations :

• Give a name to your album (single or album it’s same process)
• Fill in the language and format of your release type (Single, EP or Album)
• Fill in the artist(s) of your record (performers, composers, …)
• Fill in the label with the name of your label OR create your own label
• Fill in the main and secondary genre of your release

Cover art requirements

• Size: 3000 – 5000 pixels (perfect square)
• Format: JPG, TIFF or PNG (Max. 36 MB; RGB mode)

3> Go to the “Licenses” Tab and fill in the following fields

• Fill in the Price of your Release (Budget, Mid, Full or Premium). This is the Price for downloading Services like iTunes or Amazon.
• Fill in the Release date of your Release (Digital and Original Release Date)
• Fill in owners of the license and publishing rights (your name if any)
• Finally, indicate the territories where you wish to release

4> Go to the “Tracks” Tab and upload the tracks of your release

• Upload your audio file(s). Minimum wav or flac (44.1khz/16Bits/Stereo).Check audio files formats and requirements. If you have Problems to Upload your files, it means that your files are not in good Format. Convert them with free online converter to be sure that there is no problem.
• Edit each track by clicking on little pen. Informations must match informations you put in tab 1 “Release Info”.

Important:

DON’T FORGET TO EDIT YOUR AUDIO TRACKS AFTER UPLOADING THEM BY CLICKING ON THE PENCIL ICON.

Provide again all same informations you put on tab 1 “Release Info” for each track. Informations must match.
On each track: the artist(s), Composer(s), Label and Publishing Rights (put your Name or Artist Name if you don’t have one), language(s) of the song(s) (or “No Linguistic Content” for an instrumental track).

Metadatas are important for you and Plattform, so please be care to correctly add them everywhere, in your album and in each track(s) (Only put right informations in your album is not sufficient, as each track(s) must also get metadatas for Plattforms).

5>  Preview and Distribute your single/album

• Verify all informations of your release
• Click on “Distribute this release”

6> Choose the platforms where you want to distribute your single/album :

Select the channels where you want to distribute your music and follow the process.

You have to apply to activate some channels like Youtube on your account. To activate Youtube please follow this link.

IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THE DISTRIBUTION OF YOUR PROJECT, OUR TEAM ARE AT YOUR DISPOSAL ANYTIME. CONTACT US

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