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Performance-based licensing in film and TV — how viewership deals change royalty calculations
Royalties Management

Performance-Based Licensing: How Viewership Deals Change Royalty Math

A producer licenses to 6 platforms and 3 define viewership differently, creating quarterly royalty disputes. How performance based licensing changes the math.

FAST channel revenue tracking — how distributors manage ad-based royalties across multiple FAST platforms
Royalties Management

FAST Channel Revenue: Tracking Ad-Based Royalties at Scale

Every FAST platform reports ad revenue differently, which breaks producer royalties. What tracking ad based royalties at scale actually requires.

Royalty tracking across 20 streaming platforms — how distributors automate multi-platform royalty calculations
Royalties Management

Royalty Tracking Across 20 Streaming Platforms

A distributor with 200 titles on 20 platforms spent 6 weeks a quarter reconciling royalties, until a $47,000 discrepancy triggered a legal threat.

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Stop Waiting Around for Data Standards: How to Manage Royalties Now

Industry wide royalty data standards are not coming. Practical strategies for managing royalties now, from Molten Cloud's OTT.X Summit 2024 talk.

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Royalties Q&A with Molten Cloud Head of Product: Ethan Shvartzman

Head of Product Ethan Shvartzman on the Royalties Module, and what it means to run rights, royalties, and content management on one unified platform.

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Traditional Royalty Calculation vs Molten Cloud Automation

What changes when royalty calculation moves off spreadsheets and onto an integrated platform where rights, royalties, and content share one record.

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Royalties Management

Molten Cloud Custom Reporting is Ultra-Flexible and Ultra-Fast

Molten Cloud reporting draws on title metadata, contracts, screeners, and distribution events together, so every answer comes from one connected place.

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Royalties Management

ETL+H: The Cutting Edge Data Analysis Practice You’ve Never Heard Of

ETL+H adds human oversight to Extract, Transform, Load. Why rights data needs it, and how it fixes manual entry, compliance, and bottlenecks.

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Invoices Made Easy

The Molten Cloud Invoice App starts from your contract data, your system of record, so invoices follow the deal terms instead of being rekeyed by hand.

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Finance Team Rejoice: Weeks Long Royalty Calculations Reduced to Minutes

Molten Cloud ties contracts, rights, titles, and financials together to cut royalty calculations that took weeks down to minutes, without losing accuracy.

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Royalties Management

Molten Cloud's One Click Royalties Calculations Tool is the First of its Kind

Molten Cloud's One Click Royalties Calculations Tool integrates rights, royalties, and financial data so complex calculations run in a single step.

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Royalties Management

Three Ways Molten Cloud’s Royalties Tool has drastically simplified financial workflows

Three ways the Molten Cloud Royalties Tool simplifies financial workflows, taking the manual labor and the margin for error out of royalty calculation.

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Royalties Management

The Surprising Secret About Royalty Calculations

Accurate royalty calculations depend on clean data more than clever math. How Molten Cloud enforces the data quality the calculation actually needs.

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Royalties Management

The Mammoth Task of EOQ Financials

End of quarter royalty financials have outgrown spreadsheets. How new streamer deal structures broke the old process and how to fix it.