Posts by timmcmorris

Maybe this will lead to bigger and better opportunities.

There are a few world class companies who lurk around AJ. I know this for sure. There may be more, but for sure I know a few huge international brands. Taking the hit on the music has been worth it in the exposure, contacts and contract work. I look at AJ more of a hub for advertising then a marketplace to sell music. I mean ya you make money from sales, but the exposure is far more valuable in my opinion.

thesecession said
Am I the only one that feels a little sick knowing hes only making $8.00-$9.00 off these commercials and ad campaigns, while other musicians are making tens of thousands… Also the hundreds to thousands of dollars of lost money due to being royalty free and airing on major networks?

Oh man, don’t get me going…. I will just say this – anyone paying attention will have noticed two songs have been removed from my portfolio recently. In about a month, five more are going. They are being exclusively licensed. Then, I wait too see the licensing changes / price changes talked about. When I went to the movies and heard one of my songs, I wasn’t very happy …though I knew this was always a possibility. AJ still rocks, but large and obvious issues have arisen that need urgent attention.

Thanks Raj, extremely nice of you to post this This is one I haven’t seen either, glad you caught it!

Thanks to everyone else as well, very kind of you to comment. The truth is I am starting to hear MANY AudioJungle author’s tracks out there!... So we’re starting to take over guys…hang in there a few more years and I think many of us will be really happy with the ROI !

The most important thing is the content you offer, not the platform it’s available on. All of the social and music sites do the same thing. If you focus on excellent production quality and excellent songwriting (as much as the R.F market will allow of course, simplicity sells better then complexity here I believe) followers and fans will find you wherever you are.

When I myself was having little success advertising, instead of searching for the “golden egg” of advertising, I took a step back and looked at the musical content I was promoting. I changed some of the content and got more picky about what pieces I used to draw people in and – boom – referrals started pouring in.

So Moccc, I don’t think the questions is whether Soundcloud effects sales or not, the REAL questions is, are you using the right bait to catch the fish you’re after? Customers in a sense (sorry buyers for the crude analogy!) are like fish. There are many different types of fish and they all have different kinds of bait they are attracted to. As authors we must establish 1.) Who is my target audience and 2.) Am I using the correct bait to attract my target audience?

A shark is attracted by blood, a rubber or plastic worm doesn’t do anything for him. Hope I make sense

Growing up as a kid,

1.) My Dad 2.) Jimi Hendrix 3.) Bob Marley

Hey Garry!

I think it’s an awesome idea and has helped me HUGE ….but also once traffic comes be prepared to deal with all the people complaining about the watermark. At first I just ignored it but after thousands of comments about the watermark it starts to get really annoying!

Other then that it can be a great way to spread the word. One thing I’ve found though is that the videos need to be moderately entertaining as well. What I mean is, not every video should be the exact same visuals or people get bored really fast. Also YouTuber’s can be quite harsh sometimes.

I decided to upload one video only a year ago and the views have snowballed to over 330,000 + total views right now, with around 1,000 new subscribers. Compared with many others this is nothing, but I am glad I started is my point – because I almost blew of YouTube as a valid source of advertisement… and it has become the single best way I now spread the word about music!

Good luck man!

Look at it this way:

“Life My Life” #1 track for a while on AJ – really nice track….ya know though, I think a whistle, yeah throw in a whistle and NOW I ’ll have a CRAZY hit. I think I will call it something very unique like “Live My Life 2” and upload it to AudioJungle. I’ll even copy the original file’s tags and description – I mean, not copy, I’ll make sure to add a few words….. of course I am not trying to steal it’s traffic or anything. It’s completely a derivative work – I mean, come on, have you heard that whistle I added?? It practically makes the melody now…..after all I bought the extended license.

“Your Little Planet Corp” # 2 on AJ right now – but ohhh if its had some “OH’s” in there…. THEN it would surely sell thousands. Perfect deal. I think I will call it ” My Little Planet Corp”

lol

See, there is a reason this doesn’t happen already, and that’s because it’s against the license policy. If it isn’t and support comes by saying it’s allowed, you can expect all of your tracks to soon be modified slightly and re-sold here and everywhere else online

You can’t take a song, slap some lyrics on it and resell it. Are you serious? Every author still owns and controls the rights to the music. We are selling use of music, not the music and it’s rights. Yes AJ needs much better license agreement clarity and types of licenses. I think everyone knows this by now

Hey kkao,

Typically when giving credit (when multiple pieces of music are involved) at least from what I’ve seen from customers who have used my work, is that they will list the song title and then “Composed By “Author’s Name”.

Other times something like this:

Music in order of appearance:

“Song 1” by “Author 1”
“Song 2” by “Author 2”
“Song 3” by “Author 3”

Hope that helps! Thanks for taking the time to give composers proper credit

crozer said

timmcmorris said
Think of inventing / creating or developing something that is crucial to almost all of humanity…..............
like toilet paper…............... or, an Apple device.

A TOILET PAPER THAT CLEANS UP YOUR APPLE DEVICE . OH MY GOD .

By the way, I just filed the copyright documents for that, so don’t you dare copying my idea.

Apple Paper hmmmm…... or iPaper lol.