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Getting your Music Licensed for Use in Tv and Film From your Site
Getting Your Music Licensed For Use In TV and Film From Your Site.
It’s possible that in this day and age, any “musician” can get their music licensed. By “musician” (in quotes) that may mean anyone fluent in the world of Garage Band, anyone who is able to string loops together or anyone that plays an instrument for leisure and can record with decent quality.
The home recording studio business has flourished over the past few years and just about every person who wants to can record a piece of music with decent quality. Every Mac nowadays ships with Garage Band included in the software package.
So with all this semi-new technology being utilized by the common mortal man, their influence on the licensing industry has been noticed. It used to be a challenge to make a career in music licensing. Now it is almost impossible. Good friends of mine that were the “jingle writers” of the past now are looking at other possibilities to earn income. The competition is just so fierce.
Now, I have been in this business for a few years and have gotten a couple of tracks licensed on VH1, MTV, Bravo and others… but the licensing fees are much lower than they used to be. Royalty Free music has enabled prospective buyers to get decent music for their productions and not worry about paying a large amount of money for it.
When I launched my royalty free website in 2003, I had every intention to make all the music on the website available to anyone that wanted it. It sounds great but with any website, just being on the web doesn’t ensure sales. Proper avenues of promotion must be taken to get your site noticed.
1.Have a site that works 100 % – no broken links or glitches. No “Under Construction” Pages
2.Have as much content as possible – stay away from large flash orientated sites
3.Manually submit to all major search engines and directories. I haven’t found a submission service that I trust yet- if I find one I’ll let you know.
4.Update your content daily
5.Get “quality” reciprocal links to your site. By quality I mean sites that are PR4 and above and have content that relates to your site.
These five steps are the first baby steps in getting music seen by the public on your site. Following this advice will get quality hits to your site and some great leads.
About the Author
Dan Powers is the owner and operator of Real Brave Audio: a recording studio and music lesson facility. Real Brave Audio also houses a music library online for license in TV and film at http://www.realbraveaudio.com
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