Everyone knows that licensing your music is one of the best ways to make money from your music. With record sales down and more and more bands popping up in ads and TV shows, bands are looking for more ways to get their music licensed. In the new music model this will become more and more important if artists are unable to make money through record sales. Follow me to the jump and we will get you ready to start licensing your songs!
Pump Audio
Pump Audio is a division of Getty images. They feature the following:
- No submission fee
- Boasting over 80,000 placements
- Artists get 35% of the earnings
- Non-exclusive, so you can use other sites/services to license your music
Rumblefish
Rumblefish does everything but are also famous for getting your music inside store playlists through Sonic Branding.
- No submission fee
- Non-exclusive
- You receive 50% of net licensing fees
- 1 year-term
Ricall
Boasting much of indie rock’s royalty. They are much harder to get involved with, but are reputable and boast huge numbers of revenue and songs licensed.
Boasting much of indie rock’s royalty. They are much harder to get involved with, but are reputable and boast huge numbers of revenue and songs licensed.
Beat Pick takes your music to all forms of media. You can easily sumbit your music to them by visiting their site. Their terms vary according to different agreements with each artist.
YouLicence
More of a marketplace for Licensing, they connect the artist directly with people looking to License music. They take a fee off the transaction and you do the rest of the negotiations. Non-exclusive!
GameCues deals exclusively with the video game industry. Obviously if you have music that goes well with video games you should be in touch with them.