PRM Strengthens Royalty Distribution Efforts Through Partnership with ACRCloud

Philippines Recorded Music Rights Inc. (PRM) continues to strengthen its efforts and commitment toward fair and transparent royalty distribution through its partnership with ACRCloud, a global leader in music airplay monitoring and copyright compliance solutions. 

PRM is an IPOPHL-accredited collective management organization (CMO) representing producers and performers of sound recordings in the Philippines. Established to protect and manage neighboring rights, PRM works closely with businesses and music users to ensure that artists, performers, and record labels are properly compensated whenever their music is publicly played.  

As the Philippine music industry continues to evolve, PRM has been actively improving its systems and processes to provide more accurate and timely royalty distributions to its members. One of the organization’s key initiatives is the integration of advanced music monitoring technologies — a step made possible through its collaboration with ACRCloud. 

Tailored for CMOs and PROs, ACRCloud delivers enterprise-grade music recognition services, specializing in TV & radio broadcast monitoring, automated cue sheet recognition, and live performance tracking. Powered by a global database of over 180 million music fingerprints, its technology seamlessly streamlines repertoire registration checks and provides high-precision royalty distribution data across both broadcast and digital channels.  

Through this collaboration, PRM engaged ACRCloud’s services to support the data gathering and analysis used as part of its royalty distribution process. The aggregated insights helped strengthen PRM’s efforts in ensuring more accurate and transparent crediting for its members during its latest distribution cycle. 

PRM General Manager Ace Acosta shared that the partnership reflects PRM’s continued commitment to innovation and accountability within the music rights sector. 

“Our partnership with ACRCloud is a big step forward in PRM’s commitment to more transparent, accurate, and timely royalty distribution. With the help of technology, we hope to better support our members by ensuring fair compensation while continuing to help grow the Philippine music industry.” 

The collaboration also highlights PRM’s broader mission of championing respect for intellectual property rights and ensuring a thriving future for Original Pilipino Music (OPM). As music consumption expands across physical and digital spaces, accurate monitoring and proper licensing remain essential in ensuring that creators and rights holders receive the value and credit they deserve. 

Moving forward, both PRM and ACRCloud are dedicated to building on this momentum and leveraging technology to protect the sound recording rights of music creators.