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Average Industry-Wide Royalty Rate Up 0.7 Percentage Points to Reach 8.87% in 2019

May 1, 2020

Contact the editor at karina@plainlanguagemedia.com The average royalty rate for consumer products licensing contracts jumped 0.7 percentage points to reach 8.87% in 2019, according to TLL’s 2019–2020 Licensing Business Survey. Since 2010, the industry-wide average royalty rate within the U.S. and Canada has grown by a mere 0.3 percentage points to reach 8.87% in 2019. Over … [Read more...] about Average Industry-Wide Royalty Rate Up 0.7 Percentage Points to Reach 8.87% in 2019

Average Royalty Rates, Guarantees & Advances in the U.S. & Canada Climb Thanks to Entertainment

March 18, 2016

Royalties on licensed goods in the U.S. and Canada in 2015 started a second decade of long-term stability, once again showing little or no movement. The average royalty in 2015 was 8.73% compared to 8.68% in 2014, a change of just 0.6%. Since 2005, the average royalty rate across property types and product categories has been in the 8.6% to 8.8% range. More than half (59%) of … [Read more...] about Average Royalty Rates, Guarantees & Advances in the U.S. & Canada Climb Thanks to Entertainment

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