How production music libraries can track licenses and catalog across social media

WRITTEN BY Courtnay Moriarty
Jan 13, 2026

Social media content relies heavily on music, so creators, influencers, and even commercial brands have turned to production music libraries for help crafting engaging posts. For production libraries this means many individual accounts licensing music for different use cases (personal vs commercial), for varying lengths of time, and for content that spans multiple platforms and apps. It can feel impossible to effectively manage and monitor the use of catalog, and verify active licenses across many users and platforms. This is where Pex can help. With our music identification solutions, production music libraries can identify their songs on social media and efficiently track accounts with current or lapsed licenses to verify music is being used correctly. 

The most advanced music identification across all content

Pex’s advanced technology can detect even modified or short clips used in social media posts and trends. Whether it’s background music, remixes, mashups, or added noise, Pex identifies music and rightsholders with high accuracy. This comprehensive detection ensures libraries can identify their music when uploaded to digital platforms. 

Verify uploaders have active licenses 

When a license expires or a customer cancels their subscription, libraries need to make sure that music doesn’t continue to be shared without a license. To make this easy, libraries can track accounts that have recently canceled or had a license lapse. If music is still being used by these accounts, the library can reach out to win back the subscription or get the license renewed. 

Market share data for licensing negotiations 

When it comes to managing licensing deals, production music libraries often get paid based on their market share on a platform. To ensure these deals are equitable, libraries can enlist Pex to identify the amount of music used on a platform, determine how much of music used is owned by the library, and calculate the library’s true market share. This data can help during negotiations to ensure true value is recognized. 

Starting managing your licenses with Pex

Choosing Pex for license management and copyright compliance gives you the most advanced music identification technology, social media monitoring, cross-platform capabilities, and unique market share data. Protect your catalog and earn more revenue with Pex. Reach out to our team to get started or see a demo

Recent stories

New: Check any file to identify music, speech, or silent segments

We help rightsholders solve some pretty technical problems, like finding all versions of a song online even if it’s been sped up, chopped up, or mashed up. We get into the hairy details of cover versions and publisher splits. But, sometimes the problem plaguing...

Vobile Completes Acquisition of Pex

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 14, 2025  -- Vobile, a global leader in digital content protection and transaction services, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Pex, a leading technology provider of audio content identification. The acquisition enhances...

Music proves problematic for top beauty brands on social media

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but music licensing isn’t subjective. When it comes to adding music to social media posts as a brand, every upload must be licensed for commercial use, or the brand could be liable for copyright infringement. We’ve been...

From trending to compensated: Solving TikTok’s Sound ID problem

Greetings from the transitional space between TikTok existing and TikTok being banned in the US. Right now, TikTok is available, which means we’re analyzing Sound IDs on the platform to help rightsholders get paid. If you missed our last Sound ID piece where we...