I am a complete noob to this, and none of my tracks are currently registered with anybody. Can somebody please explain in very simple terms the difference between a PRO, AdRev and Youtube content ID?
Can you register with all of these simultaneously? Is there conflict there?
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https://www.bumastemra.nl/en/service/
https://www.ascap.com/about-us
Read everything on all 4 sites. Joining any of these 4 would be a good idea no matter where you live. Free Money is just thatâŚfree money. âPerformance Royaltiesâ literally just fall on your lap when you least expect it but if you do not become a member and register your titles and display your PRO affiliation and IPI number here on AJ, You will never see or receive that âfree moneyâ for broadcast usages which generate âperformance royaltiesâ. Times have changed and we have a global marketplace and a global network called youtube. That story is still evolving and unfolding. I have to believe soon the PROâs can and will track âyoutube performancesâ or âstreamsâ and pay performance royalties more efficiently. They already have begun to pay small amounts of royalties, but moving forward Iâd expect that to grow as the world increasingly consumes content via âon demandâ streaming as opposed to satellite/ cable TV.
In my country you canât sale royalty free music if you use their PRO.
And you can´t be registered in another pro if you are using theirs. So, fluck argentina 
@MeGustaMusic Strange. Are you sure? Usually PROs do not care about distribution of our music.
But still you can register in other, âforeignâ PROs.
Yes man, totally sure.
IN my country, you canât be registered to several PROs. If I want to register to a foreign PRO, I have to erase my account in my countries PRO. I canât do that because I need the social care. (It comes with the account)
Hope I make myself clear
Yeah, I guess youâre right. 
You CAN register your tracks to a foreign PRO as far as there is no conflict of tracking your tracks by two PROs for the same country! For example you can have your Argentina PRO represent you to Argentina, Brazil, Peru (choose your countries), have BMI to represent you only in USA and letâs say PRS UK to represent you in the rest of the world. Thatâs what I did with my Greek PRO. They represent me only in Greece and have BMI for the rest of the world. Hope it helpsâŚ
yes man, thanks for the tip. My country has difficulties to bring the payments from other countries PRO, in many cases they donât have treats with other PROs in the same vein, we donât have treaty to bring back taxes. We are looking forward to a change in policies but most of the times we are talking with dinosaurs. They still see RT music as a threat . Thanks for chiming in
i am registered to a PRO but so far have not seen a centâŚnot one statement and there have been a few big license purchased from meâŚ
Yeah, but still it is early since PRO music can be uploaded to AJ. You have to wait even one year more. And of course not every broadcast will be properly submitted to PRO so I recommend tracking them.
What to do if i registered a track in a PRO few weeks after it broadcasted in a federal TV commercial? Can i still collect my royalties? What are the steps?
Yes, itâs ok. They are collecting cue sheets with a delay, like in the end of the year or later.
@RedOctopus Do you submit a cue sheet with you zipped files on AJ or you just hope that the information of the trackâs page will be taken into account?
what do you recommend for tracking?
I do not include a blank cue sheet, but I definitely should. Instead of this I include a pdf file with all my data, name, IPI number, mail, etc. and with a short info about PROs and cue sheets.
@RedOctopus Hi!
Tell me, please, how correctly to register your track in BMI?
How to correctly place attributes and fill fields?
But i think every production company should include cue sheet taken from the local PRO and send it to local PRO as well (i.e on local language)? So this is quite pointless, no?
Hi. I donât know. I am registered in ZAIKS (Poland).
Yes. This is why I still do not attach blank cue sheets. Iâm not sure if this will work outside the USA. On the other hand USA sales are the biggest so maybe I SHOULD attach them.
Oh, sorry, Iâm not careful.
I think one of the reasons why not everyone is with PRO is the fact that different PROâs have a bit different ways of doing things and it could be confusing. Take ZAIKS for example. I remember when I was checking their agreement online I saw a clause stating that if you register a song with them, you cannot bypass their authority and administer rights yourself. So it seems like itâs even impossible for ZAIKS members to direct license their own work. Thatâs why I decided to register my music with PRS instead. You are registered with ZAIKS, so thereâs probably some workaround that I donât know about. Care to elaborate? 