Frequently asked questions
Who owns Vydia, and who is behind LabelGrid?
Vydia’s About page states “Since its inception in 2013, Vydia has provided independent labels, managers, and artists with the infrastructure they need to reach their creative and economic potential”, and that “In 2023 Vydia was acquired by artist-first multimedia platform, gamma.” Their privacy policy names the controller as Vydia, Inc. of 228 Park Ave S., New York. gamma. describes itself on its own site as a modern media and technology enterprise founded by Larry Jackson and Ike Youssef. LabelGrid is Label Grid, LLC, formed in 2017 and based in Denver, Colorado, independently owned with no major-label and no DSP parent.
Where can you find Vydia’s prices?
Their 11 distinct captured pages, read 23 September 2026, carry no plan name with a price, no subscription amount, no distribution commission and no royalty percentage, and their Terms point the reader to “the available Vydia storage plan options listed within your Dashboard”, which sits behind a login. Their /pricing/ path returned the homepage when we read it on that date. That is what the capture shows, and it is not a claim about what Vydia charges. On the LabelGrid side every distribution plan and API tier price is on the pricing page, including the Custom Distribution and API starting prices. Imprint is the exception and is scoped at onboarding.
What does a Vydia subscription pay for?
The only subscription their captured Terms describe is a storage plan: “You can upgrade your free Vydia Member Account to a paid Member Account and increase the amount of storage space available to you at any time by selecting one of the available Vydia storage plan options listed within your Dashboard.” The same Terms add that if a customer chooses not to upgrade, “your oldest content will be deleted, in Vydia’s sole discretion, to keep your Member Account under your selected storage limit”, which is about stored content measured against a storage limit the customer picked. Their distribution agreement is not in this capture, so we cannot tell you what it says about rates. LabelGrid sizes plans by a track limit and a label limit and resolves an overflow with a per-track overage or a move up a tier, and if a LabelGrid subscription lapses for more than 60 days we may remove the content and suspend the account, which is our own blunt end of the same question.
How do you open an account with Vydia?
The only account call to action in their captured site menu is “APPLY”, beside “CLIENT LOGIN”, and their homepage card for the main offering reads “For artists, labels, agencies and more. Start distributing content with access to Vydia’s all-in-one solution.” Their homepage carries three cards, Agency, White Label and a gamma. card whose copy begins “Invitation Only”; gamma. is their parent company rather than a plan, a tier or a price point. With LabelGrid you start a self-serve distribution plan on a 7-day free trial without applying, and the upper products are gated the other way round: API and third-party distribution require onboarding screening and KYC/KYB, and Imprint is scoped at onboarding.
Can you run your own branded platform on either one?
Yes on both, and neither company publishes a price for it. Vydia’s white-label page offers to “Fully realize your business’s potential through a custom branded platform” and to “Manage, monetize, and promote content across your entire roster”, with no price, tier, capacity or term stated on the page. Imprint is the LabelGrid equivalent: your own brand on your own domain, every end customer in a full workspace, and pricing scoped at onboarding. What a reseller feels is the layer underneath, in how the accounts are counted: label limits on the standard plans, the same meter at a far higher ceiling on the API tiers.
What do Vydia’s published pages say about an API?
In their 11 distinct captured pages, read 23 September 2026, every occurrence of “API” refers to a third party’s API that Vydia consumes: the Spotify API in their Terms and YouTube API Services in their privacy policy. None of the strings SFTP, DDEX, ERN, sandbox, webhook or developer occurs in those documents, and no developer or documentation surface was requested in that capture, so this describes what their published material covers rather than what their product does. LabelGrid’s documentation is public and readable without a sales call, the MCP server is on npm as @labelgrid/mcp under MIT, and the sandbox opens once an API plan is active.
Which one handles publishing and promotion?
Vydia does. Their publishing team registers works “to Youtube Content ID as well as global PROs and CMOs, such as The MLC, BMI, PRS, and ASCAP”, their clients “Collect performance, mechanical, print and other publishing income directly through the Vydia platform”, and they source sync opportunities, pitch content and negotiate the licences. Their label-services page describes a team crafting promotional campaigns with artists and their teams. LabelGrid does not offer publishing administration, publishing royalty collection or publisher connections, and no plan upgrade adds them; recording-side distribution and royalty accounting are what we sell. The documented LabelGrid promotional product is a set of tools you run yourself: a landing page and smart link for every release, a Spotify pre-save before release day, optional fan email capture, and the same pages on your own domain through the WordPress plugin.
What else does Vydia sell beyond distribution?
Their homepage names dedicated support, digital distribution, physical distribution, rights management, royalty management, label services, and merch and e-commerce. Physical is “Distribute vinyl, CDs, and more via retail and direct-to-consumer channels”, and merch is “Design, manufacture, and sell merch through a custom digital storefront”. Each of those is a heading with a sentence under it, with no plan or tier scope anywhere in the capture, so read the list as breadth rather than as something you can size from their pages. LabelGrid sells three distribution products on one backend: self-serve distribution, Imprint the white-label portal, and Engine the API.
How do payouts work on each side?
Vydia publishes a great deal of this. Their payments FAQ states a “minimum threshold of $35 in lifetime earnings” to be eligible, payouts “once a month” typically in the middle of the calendar month, and a fee schedule binding an amount to each of nine payment methods with a separate 2.50% foreign-exchange row. Those amounts are their payment processor’s, and their own page says “Vydia does not charge any additional fees for payments”. Their coverage table lists payment methods and value dates country by country, footnoted that wire transfers in the asterisked currencies carry a $1,030.00 minimum. LabelGrid charges no payout fee of its own either, and the deductions are the plan share plus your own bank’s transfer or conversion charges. What LabelGrid publishes is the calendar: statements generated from the 21st, payments initiated between the 3rd and the 14th of the following month, funds 3 to 7 business days after that. Our Terms reserve the right to a minimum payout threshold, and if a threshold applies to your account we let you know, with a balance below it carried forward to a later payment cycle.
Is LabelGrid cheaper than Vydia?
We cannot answer that honestly and we are not going to pretend otherwise: their 11 distinct captured pages, read 23 September 2026, carry no plan price, and their distribution agreement is not in that capture. What we can give you is our own side in full. You pay a flat yearly platform fee that steps with volume and never becomes a percentage of your royalties. A customer keeps 85% on Solo and Basic and 90% on Pro; on Custom Distribution and the API tiers a customer keeps 95% of standard-DSP royalties earned through LabelGrid’s deals and 100% of what they earn on their own direct deals or through SOBO. UGC and Content ID revenue carries a 20% fee on revenue earned through LabelGrid's deals. All of it is on the pricing page before you speak to anyone.