For indie labels
50-500 releases. 1-3 person ops team. Currently using spreadsheets and emails to distributors. DSP Watch replaces both.
Recommended plan: Starter — $49/month. 14-day free trial, no credit card.
What we are replacing
Pex and Audible Magic detect but require enterprise contracts. Songstats and Chartmetric track charts but never file a takedown. So indie labels stitch together three manual workflows — and lose 3-7% of streaming revenue to duplicates that no one catches.
Someone on your team types artist names into Spotify, Apple and YouTube every Monday morning. You catch maybe one duplicate in five. The rest sit there earning streams that should be yours for weeks before anyone notices.
The shared Sheet started clean in January. By March it has three tabs, two colour systems and a column called "status?" with comments from six months ago. You cannot tell what was filed, what was acknowledged, or what was ignored.
You forwarded a Spotify link to a distributor's compliance@ inbox in February. No reply. You followed up in March. Still no reply. The duplicate is still live. You have no case ID, no audit trail and no leverage.
The switch
Your full catalog scanned across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Tidal, Deezer and Amazon Music every 24 hours — no manual searches, no missed re-uploads.
One inbox of findings ranked by an actionability score from 0 to 100, so a one-person ops team triages the top 5% first instead of slogging through 500 weak matches.
Every takedown ships with a 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)-compliant PDF, a case or claim ID from the recipient, and a hash-chained audit log — replacing the spreadsheet and the email thread in one move.
Counter-notice deadlines tracked automatically with a T-3 day warning, so a §512(g) reinstatement window never expires on a release you meant to defend.
“I uploaded my catalog CSV and watched 12 unauthorized re-uploads appear in the inbox overnight.”
Day-one workflow
No engineering work, no procurement cycle, no Pex contract. A one-person ops team can complete every step below in their first sitting.
Upload a CSV with ISRCs, UPCs, titles, artists and release dates — or sync from your distributor's export. 500 releases imports in under a minute. No engineering work, no API integration required for day one.
DSP Watch runs the first full pass across all 6 DSPs within hours of import. Findings appear in the inbox sorted by actionability score. Most indie-label catalogs surface their first real unauthorized re-upload in the first 24 hours.
Open a finding, confirm it is unauthorized, attest to the §512(c)(3) sworn statements, and DSP Watch routes the takedown through the right adapter — Spotify Content Protection, Apple Music dispute, YouTube CID, distributor forward or DMCA generic.
Every action carries its recipient case ID through to acknowledgement and resolution. The hash-chained audit log records every state transition. The §512(g) counter-notice clock starts and warns automatically.
Indie-label FAQ
Starter covers up to 500 releases (typically 5,000 tracks) across all 6 monitored DSPs with daily scans. That is the median indie-label catalog size. If you grow past 500 releases, Growth lifts the cap to 5,000 releases without changing the workflow.
Yes. Day one is a CSV upload — ISRCs, UPCs, titles, artists, release dates. The dashboard, evidence packages and takedown filing all work in the browser with no code. The REST API and webhooks exist for labels that want to wire DSP Watch into an existing rights stack, but they are optional.
DSP Watch ships with 5 takedown adapters: DMCA Generic, Spotify Content Protection, Apple Music dispute, YouTube Content ID, and Distributor Forward. If the offender uploaded via a known distributor (DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby, UnitedMasters), the Distributor Forward adapter is the fastest path to removal across every DSP at once.
Every takedown PDF contains all six elements required by 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3): identification of the work, identification of the infringing material, contact information, a good-faith statement, a sworn statement of accuracy, and the signer's electronic signature. The signer must re-authenticate with MFA within 10 minutes of attestation. The audit log is hash-chained. This is the same evidence standard a court would require.
Distributor Forward removals typically complete in 3-7 business days because the distributor pulls from every DSP in one step. Spotify Content Protection and Apple Music dispute cases typically acknowledge within 48 hours and resolve in 5-10 business days. YouTube Content ID claims apply policy immediately. DMCA Generic notices vary by host.
Starter is $49/month with a 14-day free trial. The trial includes a full catalog import, daily scans across all 6 DSPs, the full evidence pipeline and unlimited takedown filings. No credit card required to start the trial. Upgrade to Growth ($199/month) when your catalog passes 500 releases or you want webhooks and the REST API.
Import your catalog, watch the first findings appear overnight, and ship a real §512(c)(3)-compliant takedown before the 14-day trial ends. Starter is $49/month after that.