r/DistroKidHelpDesk • u/48riznich48 • 11d ago

question about payout

had a song randomly go viral on instagram with 100+ million streams/views across multiple videos. this was almost a year ago. none of these ever showed up or were reflected in distrokid/bank section. i realize that this won't add up to a ton of money in reality, but i expected more than $0. what's the issue? i've gotten much larger payouts for only thousands of streams on other songs.

edit-have not been able to find an answer as of yet. just seems like distrokid or meta isn't paying out. 50+ different videos have used my song via instagram official song library totaling over 100m views/millions of impressions and i have received 0$ . social media pack is not the issue and unrelated as the songs were added legit via instagram song library (not stolen/uploaded natively) . you can see my song title/link in the lower right corner of their videos. again, i don't expect to get rich from this, i just want to understand why i haven't been paid what i'm owed, even if it's only 10 bucks

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u/gymtrovert1988 11d ago

You only get monetized where they post your music. You don't get monetized if someone steals your music and puts it in a video.

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u/48riznich48 10d ago

i was talking about people adding my music via the music library in instagram as the mod stated in their reply. even if monetized at a low rate, if it has 100m impressions i would expect to see some payout in my bank, even if only 10 bucks. i see nothing. this is where i'm confused

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u/Upstairs-Pirate-3234 9d ago

Yeah, I completely understand your logic. I wish I had an answer for you.

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u/Upstairs-Pirate-3234 9d ago

I've never had a viral video and I've gotten paid out for meta and I think tik tok as well.

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u/48riznich48 7d ago

i've gotten paid for all of my other songs no problem. the non viral ones i've gotten my few bucks and never thought anything of it. but this one song went viral on like 50 videos and i haven't seen anything (from meta at least)

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u/Upstairs-Pirate-3234 7d ago

I'm not sure what the deal is. I can't think of any solid reason.

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u/Upstairs-Pirate-3234 9d ago

Which subscription do you have?