Every live performance, recognised and reported effortlessly
Vollou is the royalty platform for live performances. It recognises every track played by DJs, in venues and at festivals, files the setlist with the collection society and tracks the royalty to payout.
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01How do you use Vollou?
Press start as the set begins
Place the phone down at the start of the set and it records the setlist effortlessly until the last track.
02Pioneering music recognition
Every track recognised the moment it plays
VARS, Vollou’s recognition engine, is built for live sets. It traces every track back to the original work, even when it is pitched, edited or reworked on the fly.
Edits, remixes and blends recognised as they are mixed
Measured in live conditions, through pitch and tempo changes
White label and unreleased plays logged so the rights can be claimed
Only an encrypted fingerprint is needed, and keeping the audio is optional
03Automated end to end
Matched, verified and filed to the society
Each setlist is matched to its event and filed in the society’s own format, on time and without any manual entry. You can review it in the dashboard and follow it all the way to payout.
Saturday, Main Room
Set audio
App recordingList of Tracks
4
Gecko (Overdrive)Oliver Heldens, Becky Hill5m 10s
Losing ItFISHER5m 50s
Drugs From AmsterdamMau P5m 40s
ColaCamelPhat, Elderbrook6mNever miss a setlist submission.
04The problem
95% of DJs never report what they play
Submit a setlist, 5%Never report what they play, 95%Each bar is one DJ out of 100
collected for live and background music in 2025, and paid out on estimates
Source: CISAC Global Collections Report 2026UK performances whose royalties were collected but never paid out, for want of a setlist
Source: The Guardian, July 2025of UK nightclubs use music recognition to report what is played
Source: Fair Play, November 202505How VARS compares
Recognition that survives the mix
At the original speed
Every tool recognises most tracks when a song plays exactly as it was released. Live sets rarely do.
A few percent faster
Broadcast monitoring drops out within about 1%. Consumer apps fall to around half by 6%.
Ten percent and beyond
At a 10% speed change VARS still recognises about three tracks in four, where the others have stopped.
Built for the booth
95% recognition in live conditions, on the phones, tablets and tills already at the event.
06The products
What Vollou offers
For DJs & artists
DJ Royalty Platform
Record with the DJ app or bring sets in from anywhere
- Records every set with the DJ app
- Imports from Rekordbox, audio files, links and photos
For festivals & live events
Live Event Tracking
DJs and bands, tracked on site
- One device per stage or room
- Every DJ set and live band
For bars, clubs & restaurants
POS Venue App
Runs on the tills venues already own
- Listed on Sunmi, iMin and Clover
- Runs silently in the background
For societies’ scouts
Scout App
Your own white-labelled scout app
- Streamlines scout data collection
- Check-in confirms the venue
For CMOs
Event Discovery
Every event in your territory, found for you
- A full 12-month search of your territory
- A monthly search so every event is licensed
07Where it has been used
Where has Vollou been used?
Some of the places where Vollou has tracked a set in 2026.
- Events
- 1,000+
- Places
- 500+
- Countries
- 50+
08Artists
Artists we have tracked
Some of the artists who have used Vollou in 2026.
09Who is it for
How our clients use Vollou
CMOs
Your setlist collection platform
- Setlists delivered in your own import format, ready to distribute
- DJs, venues and festivals covered in one place
- White-labelled DJ and Scout apps in your colours
Venues & festivals
Cutting-edge DJ & live music recognition technology
- Live data on what is played, room by room and night by night
- DJ sets and live bands tracked, one device per stage
- Runs on phones, tablets or the till you already own
Artists & publishers
Effortless setlist submissions
- Press start once and the setlist submits itself
- Every royalty tracked from submission to payout
- Shows imported from Rekordbox, spreadsheets, audio files, YouTube links or photos
10Who we are working with
Our current clients
Collective management organisations from the Netherlands to Macau, reporting live performances with Vollou.
Supported by
Technology partners
11Questions
Any questions? Here are our FAQs.
Not unless you want it. Recognition needs only an encrypted fingerprint, which cannot be turned back into audio. If you would like the recording, turn on audio storage and play the set back in the dashboard.
Yes. Societies, artists and venues all use the dashboard, so a setlist can be reviewed and corrected before it goes anywhere.
A track with no registration cannot be matched to a work, but Vollou still records that it was played. White label, unreleased and unregistered plays are surfaced so the rights can be claimed rather than lost. Where a remix is played, the original is usually detected and reported.
Not while it runs. Vollou keeps recognising and caching for up to seven days offline, then uploads once it reconnects.
The same approach for bands playing covers and imperfect originals is now in paid, real-world trials with several societies.
Join the movement for fairer royalties
Every set recognised and filed effortlessly, so every writer is paid for what was actually played.
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