WARM or BMAT: radio airplay tracking or a rights operation?
BMAT works with collecting societies, publishers and labels on music rights. Its Vericast service finds music in TV and radio, including ads, and helps file royalty claims. WARM does one thing: radio airplay, for anyone who signs up. Both find plays by audio fingerprinting. Here is how they compare, using what each company publishes.
| Feature | WARM | BMAT |
|---|---|---|
| What it monitors | WARM: Radio: 21,000+ stations in 160+ countries | BMAT: 8,000 TV and radio channels worldwide, plus venues and streaming services (BMAT's figure; radio and TV not split) |
| How plays are found | WARM: WARM recognises the song in the audio of the broadcast | BMAT: Its own audio fingerprinting |
| What a detection shows | WARM: Station, country, city, start time and duration of every play | BMAT: Programme title, producer, date and time, with audio and video evidence |
| Who it is for | WARM: Anyone: artists, labels, managers, publishers and promoters | BMAT: Collecting societies, publishers, labels, broadcasters, streaming services and artists |
| Royalty claims | WARM: Reports per song that you can send on | BMAT: Files claims for you, backs them with evidence and checks society statements |
| Charts | WARM: Weekly genre charts ranked by airplay | BMAT: Official radio charts in 14 Latin American territories, by its own account |
| Price | WARM: From €15 a month for 2 songs, billed monthly or yearly | BMAT: Not on its pages; you talk to its team |
| Free trial | WARM: Yes: 5 songs for 30 days, no credit card | BMAT: Not mentioned on the pages we read |
BMAT figures are as published on its own website, read on 3 November 2026: BMAT Vericast, BMAT for artists, BMAT for record labels, BMAT FAQ, BMAT music charts. Products change; check their current pages before you decide.
Where BMAT is stronger
- TV, ads and promos as well as radio, with the programme and producer of each use.
- Audio and video evidence of each use, and claims filed for you.
- Society statements checked against what it detected, and work with collecting societies directly.
- Official radio charts in Latin America.
Where WARM is stronger
- A public price and a free trial you can start yourself, without a sales call.
- More radio stations than BMAT's TV and radio channels together, by each company's own count.
- Every radio play with its station, country, city, start time and duration.
- A search back for earlier plays when you add a song: up to 365 days, or 2 years by agreement.
The short answer
If you run a catalogue used on TV and in ads, and want claims filed and society statements checked, BMAT is built for that. If you want to see where your songs are played on the radio, today and at a published price, WARM is built for that.
Free trial: 5 songs for 30 days. No credit card required.