Royalty Free Music, Sound Effects, Voice-over & Audio Production for Multi-Media Productions
You can listen to most music free on ad-supported services like Spotify, or YouTube. However, using music in your own media content requires licensing. There are a number of free music websites including the YouTube Audio Library and Free Music Archive. Many of which utilise Creative Commons licenses to allow the …
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Yes and No! In the early days, YouTube's Content ID system was a real pain for royalty free music libraries and stock music libraries like ours. However, over the years it has become quite a good thing. Although, it still has its issues. Back in its early days if your music triggered a Content ID claim, you would …
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In recent times we've found that nursery rhymes have become popular with YouTubers who put the music to their animation in order to monetize their video. This is fine and is covered by our license and we have a page dedicated to using our music on YouTube. However, the Content ID inconvenience can frustrate those who …
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Back in March I blogged about Avoiding Monetization Losses on YouTube. I claimed that the dispute process was pointless if you had already had losses of monetization and stated that the mindset should be to prevent a problem by pre-clearing music rather than reacting to resolve a problem. Content ID claims on a …
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There is nothing more frustrating than uploading your latest video for your subscribers just to find that your monetisation has been disabled due to third party content detected in your video. This renders your video revenueless for the first few hours of its existence, at least until the third party releases it and …
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There is much discussion on this topic between music producers, music libraries and professional music buyers. This blog post is our view on Content ID. Now, I don’t want you to think that I am only looking at this from a one-sided point of view. Although royalty free music is one of our main areas of business, I have …
Content ID is a relatively new technology that crops up more and more these days, which is why we chose to include it in this Professional Music Buyers Guide series. If you have licensed music legally, but still received a Copyright notice from YouTube for the musical content in your video, chances are this is because …
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Digital technology is great, however, when combined with a complex subject such as music copyright it can make things even more complicated. Sometimes we license music to clients and they use it on YouTube and receive a Copyright Notice. This inevitably causes alarm and confusion. Quite simply, this notice is …
Speaking as an audio producer, I frequently notice that many online videos have an array of varying volumes. This can make it hard to hear the narration. Often these videos have been created specifically for the web and are produced by the many corporate video producers out there. At best I find myself constantly …
I decided to post this video because I find sound design a very interesting subject and I know many people often do not realise how much time goes into creating a convincing soundtrack for a film (or video game in this example). At the corporate video end of the business Media Music Now creates video / animation …
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