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Top 25 Licensing and royalty firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 283 licensing and royalty firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,268 professional contacts across them, including 1,388 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers licensing and royalty firms headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest licensing and royalty firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 826 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CONCORD is the world’s leading independent music company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Leverage the only rights and royalties management software built to identify, manage, simplify, and monetize your IP effectively.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connor (also known as Connor Consulting)’s mission is to make a positive impact on our people, the clients we serve, and the communities we live in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2006 by music industry veterans, Primary Wave is a full-service music shop with expertise in film, television, gaming, advertising, branding, licensing, special…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Global Music Rights represents today's greatest and most popular music creators in the public performance licensing of their catalogs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A leading publishing industry innovator for over 30 years, PARS International is proud to be the official content and IP licensing agent for many of the world’s top media brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In its nearly 50-year history, Talent Partners has grown from a specialty payroll company focused on commercial talent to a powerhouse provider of essential services, including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since the foundation of Downtown Music Publishing in 2007 and Songtrust in 2011, publishing has been at the core of Downtown’s mission, and as the landscape transformed, Downtown…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Equity Management Inc.(“EMI”) is an industry leader in creating and managing corporate trademark licensing programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sound Royalties is a specialty finance company that helps creators fund personal and professional projects, empowering them to choose from a variety of flexible pricing options.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a 100% independently owned music publishing company with global reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Audiosocket is a music licensing company that curates emerging artists and composers worldwide for placement in advertising, film, television and new media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AllTrack is a full-service global performing rights organization (PRO) that operates at the intersection of music and business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Influence Media Partners (“Influence Media” or “Influence”) is a music and entertainment company that is committed to transforming the music industry by partnering with artists…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vistex Inc, formerly Counterpoint Systems, helps businesses take control of their mission-critical processes for managing all aspects of intellectual property - including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One Publishing is the publishing arm of ONErpm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exploration is a privately owned copyright administration company owned by music industry maven, Rene Merideth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 25 years, MetaComet® Systems has been the global leader in rights and royalty solutions, providing secure, reliable automation to hundreds of businesses and institutions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “StreamCut collects and administers digital royalties for musicians, songwriters, producers, and record labels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Muserk is a leader in modern global rights management for music and video, driven by cutting- edge AI technology and royalty accounting solutions that protect and monetize content…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Six Degrees provide rights & clearances services for music, talent, film/TV clips and other intellectual property, as well as global research, sourcing and licensing of user…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The unparalleled rights and royalty platform for the music industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ClearBox Rights is an Intellectual Property (IP) Rights Management Company based in Nashville, Tennessee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: licensing and royalty firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names licensing and royalty firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of licensing and royalty firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name licensing and royalty firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Licensing and royalty firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 283 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among licensing and royalty firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “licensing and royalty firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names licensing and royalty firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among licensing and royalty firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,388 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Licensing and royalty firms by metro
- Licensing and royalty firms in New York49
- Licensing and royalty firms in Los Angeles38
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names licensing and royalty firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many licensing and royalty firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 283 licensing and royalty firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Concord, headquartered in Nashville, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most licensing and royalty firms?
New York leads with 49 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (38) and Nashville (17).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,388 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 283 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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