AudioJungle
| If you are a composer and/or songwriter, please leave your comments and experiences with this company. We want to hear the good as well as the bad! Please rate, from 1 to 10, by clicking on one of the stars. Below is some general information but we make no guarantee of accuracy. Check with the company for all details. Please contact us for any corrections. | ||
| URL: | http://audiojungle.net | |
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| Accepting Submissions: | Yes | |
| Submit Via Uploads: | Yes | |
| Submit Via Mail: | Unknown | |
| Submissions Reviewed: | Unknown | |
| Types Accepted: |
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| Charge For Submissions: | No | |
| Up Front Money: | No | |
| Royalty Free: (non-broadcast use) |
Yes | |
| Exclusivity: (Exclusive, Non, Semi) (Semi = Free to place on own but not with another library) |
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| Re-Title: | No | |
| Set Own Price: | No | |
| Contract Length: | Unknown | |
| Payment Schedule: | Monthly | |
| License Fee Split: (writer/library) |
25/75 | |
| PRO Split Based on 100%: (writer/library writer/library/publisher or writer) |
100/0 | |
| Requires Licensee To File Cue Sheet: | No | |
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Categories: Music Libraries A to A | 
Tags: composers, music libraries, music library, songwriters | 
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I have a moderate portfolio on here, and made quite a few sales. However the payout is only 25% so you’ll make barely anything on it. The reason I have my music on here, is because there are 250k members on it, vs. not so many composers. I’ve been contacted by numerous people for projects as they found my music on here, and wanted me to make some more stuff for them.
One client that contacted me through the website was a director from CBS, so it can be worthwhile being on some of these low payout sites, if they do enough marketing for you.
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How with PRO Split?
thanks
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100% PRO split – but nobody is encouraged to use cue sheets or report usage. Its based more on music for small websites, video games, youtube etc. – 2 license types – basic and extended. Check it out on their website
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Tyler, March 9th, 2010 at 8:55 pm Reply:
I’ve been getting a lot of sales on Audiojungle. Do you think it’s important to register these songs with my BMI account? I wonder if it is since “Its based more on music for small websites, video games, youtube etc.”
I’m new to this and trying to learn all about the royalty side of things. Hard to understand if it’s relevant with a publisher like this.
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John, March 10th, 2010 at 12:22 am Reply:
Depends on whether or not they re-title.
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Tyler, March 12th, 2010 at 2:19 am Reply:
Just got my song “Shore Drive” posted as the featured song of the week!
They don’t re-title. I was curious to see what their definition of “royalty free music” was so I read some of the fine print. I think that they sell under a license that prohibits use in any broadcast form that requires cue sheets/royalties. At least that’s how I understood it. There’s no place to put in PRO data for a buyer to submit.
A great site nonetheless.
Tyler
http://www.solocomusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/audyssey
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Don’t know why, but I love this library.. maybe because its my first one I submitted music to
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Lots of sales, but veeeery low profits
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I understand the way of thinking when it comes to non-exclusive music libraries that pay peanuts like Audio Jungle. Composers think whatever they make it’s better than nothing – and you can still submit to other non-exclusive libraries.
But… libraries like these that make music dirt cheap are killing the good libraries. If show “X” needs a track for an episode of “Extreme Forensics”, and purchases it from one of these bargain basement, royalty-free libraries, that’s business taken away from the good libraries. Before you know it all there will be left is these bargain basement, royalty-free libraries – and joining a PRO will be meaningless.
When you give your music away to these royalty-free libraries, you’re punching all your brother and sister composers in the nose.
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ErikMusic, April 9th, 2010 at 7:19 pm Reply:
Do you really think that producers of network TV shows are going to spend countless hours searching through thousands of tracks on royalty free websites?
I think the answer is overwhelmingly going to be “No”……they are going to stay with the convenience of good libraries they have established connections with.
To suggest that producers are going to all of the sudden start sifting through hundreds of thousands of tracks online to save a few bucks is unrealistic. Additionally, many of the so called “royalty free” websites still require clients to file cue sheets for broadcast use…they use the term “royalty free” as it pertains to sync and mechanical licenses.
The clients of internet based royalty free-model sites are 95% of the time going to be using the music in non-broadcast productions.
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Christian, April 9th, 2010 at 10:38 pm Reply:
You Guys are Both Right
It will effect the good companies and there will be some that avoid it… what you really got to watch out for are the shows and networks that say give us your music and we will put it on the show. Once they create a big enough catalog they will manipulate the rules to take advantage of us all. Like doing Music for CBS exclusive library and then they put it on the sister station ESPN that pays no PRO royalties what so ever.
Danger ahead!!!
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Emmett Cooke, April 10th, 2010 at 11:29 am Reply:
Producer from CBS contacted me through that website about 3 years ago, so I think that in some cases, you can be suprised….
If they are a site that ranks high on google, and they search for “upbeat fun royalty free music”, then chances are they could stumble across your music. Exactly what happened to me, and I was asked to make a custom track because they heard my music on there.
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Emmett Cooke, April 10th, 2010 at 11:29 am Reply:
Sorry, I don’t mean by that, that you should join that site. Far from it. Just saying – you never know where some people might find your music
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8 to 12 dollar for a track of which the composer only gets 25 percent is absolutely ridiculous!
Not worth the time uploading in my opinion..
I heard some good music on there, i wonder why these composers sell themselves so cheap.
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POP, April 10th, 2010 at 8:31 am Reply:
25% of $8-12 = absolutely pathetic IMHO..
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ErikMusic, April 10th, 2010 at 9:38 am Reply:
I agree…….there’s no reason to sell music that cheap…and the 25% is pretty insane.
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POP, April 10th, 2010 at 6:06 pm Reply:
I’m not sure which one is more pathetic, the ridiculously low prices of songs sold or the 25% paid to the writer. Even if that %tage was higher, so what.
What an insult to composers everywhere.
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This was the first site I ever joined up to, not knowing much about the industry at all. I thought it was great that people wanted to buy my music, no matter how much it was. However, now that I’ve seen what prices and payouts are supposed to be, I’d can definitively see why its not a good site at all.
The payout rate is the worst out there. To be honest, the only good thing I have to say about them is that I was once approached by a producer from CBS through that website, so I still leave my music up there as it is worthwhile for that I suppose at least…
For about 45 tracks I earn about $50 a month on average – and they earn $200 of that. Yup – sucks a huge amount – never found a site that gives a payout rate that low
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I’ve made some sales on audio jungle under the name Solarsound. It’s difficult though, because my music gets buried by artists who but together a few loops and upload. I guess that is what Audio Jungle wants. I’m displeased with the way this site continuously favors certain artists. Basically, if you inundate the site with useless bits of sounds or music, you will get recognition, I mean how many idents and logos do you really need? I like to make my music worthwhile and upload quality pieces, yet many people upload garbage. Sorry to say that, but it is true. There are quality artists on the site, but in all honestly, the site should be less biased and try to find those of us who work hard to upload quality music. Instead of those who get favored treatment for uploading loops from Garageband. I notice sales have dropped, so this could be Audio Jungles downfall, unless they stop making customers search through a sea of garbage to find quality tracks.
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OK I am confused because they are saying you can be exclusive or non-exclusive (25%) but they are also saying you can sell your music elsewhere if you choose exclusive???
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AndyB, April 22nd, 2010 at 2:43 pm Reply:
Nathalie,
Exclusive with Audio Jungle means you CAN sell your music on other sites, but it CANNOT be the same songs as on Audio Jungle. Basically the songs are exclusive not the author.
But, I have found “Exclusive” artists from Audio Jungle selling the same songs on other sites. If you are a top selling author on Audio Jungle, they seem to let it slide. They just want their customers to feel as if they can only get that content there. It is shady.
I personally feel the work involved to contribute to Audio Jungle is not worth the time. You have to add your own watermarks and create your own preview tracks, sales are dirt cheap and it is reflected in the amount of money you can make from Audio Jungle. If you are not a top author, and you don’t contribute regularly, you will not make much.
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Emmett Cooke, April 22nd, 2010 at 2:47 pm Reply:
Yup I started off on AJ originally when I knew nothing about the industry. Still have some tracks there, but don’t do anything with them or upload any new ones. Make about $50 a month on average from approx 40 tracks. I make about $2.50 per sale – thats usually the most – if its a sound effect you can make 50 cents, or a cheap track, $2.00.
Convert that to euros, and its not even enough to buy you a cup of tea or coffee (or even a bottle of water) for the sale + license of each track. Must remove my tracks from that library at some stage. The only one good thing that ever came from that website, was that I was contacted by a producer from CBS who heard my music on there
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I’ve decided not to upload new music to AudioJungle so the other sites I’m registered to will sell more of my music. Do you think its logical? Do you think the client googles your music before purchase in order to find the most “attractive” price for him..?
I’ll do this experiment for a few months and see if my new tracks that I won’t publish on Audiojungle will sell better on other sites than my old tracks which are published on AudioJungle AND other sites. This experiment won’t give me a 100% precise answer of course but I think there is no other way to check the theory.. If this logic will work somehow anyway I’ll go out of AudioJungle till they put normal prices and normal payment percentage for us, The Composers.
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Dmytro, May 1st, 2010 at 6:05 am Reply:
Sergey, you are doing right thing!
A week ago I have closed account here (and on some other sites) too.
I am trying to keep 30usd per track (min price) for my tracks across the www.
I am sure that a buyer (musical editor for my example) WILL browse other distributors (like AJ) for a cheaper version of the chosen track! (I do it when make the musical editor’s job on tv-channel).
But this is the rule only for low-budget projects (few hundreds $$$).
So, it is time to encourage the Mass Quitting Incentive!
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Andy B, May 1st, 2010 at 8:51 am Reply:
Boycott Audio Jungle. They are unfair with pricing, and I found one of the top “exclusive” authors selling on other sites like Yooka Music. I’m not sure they have done much about it, because the author makes good music that will sell. I know the world is not fair, but I think Audio Jungle should show a little integrity towards the other authors that struggle at 25%, and quit with the “exclusive” and make it fair for everyone across the board.
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Emmett Cooke, May 20th, 2010 at 1:46 am Reply:
I’ve just deleted nearly every single one of my tracks (bar maybe 4 or 5 of my worst ones just to keep a presence there). Hopefully they will start to see the error of their ways and that good composers will not stand by and let their music sell for so little and for such a small % of the profits.
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There is one uncomfort thing about withdrawing payments from AJ – if you have less than 50usd you can get them only after a year (thus I was told by support staff when was trying to recieve my monies).
Not very polite as for me… even iStock sent me funds (lesser than 50usd – min sum) without any delay when I was quitting them.
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Hey guys,
Scott here, Site Manager at AudioJungle.
First and foremost, I am always very sad to hear of any AudioJungle authors leaving our site, deciding to remove audio from AudioJungle, or to hear of any plans to boycott us. It’s particularly sad when the first I hear about it is via external forums such as this and not in our own forums, via support tickets, via Twitter, or via a personal e-mail to me. We have very many avenues that both authors and customers can contact us to share feedback. We take pride in giving our community such avenues to contact us, and we listen and respond to everything we receive. Our community members, which comprise of both authors and customers, are our most important asset, and we value them greatly. If, after you have read this response, you wish to contact me personally or directly to discuss any issues further, I encourage you to do so.
There appears to be some inaccuracies and incorrect presumptions posted here about AudioJungle so I wanted to address those concerns if I may.
We offer two types of accounts on AudioJungle. A Non-Exclusive account which allows you to upload music that you can sell on any other site, where the commission is currently 25%. We also have an Exclusive opportunity for anyone that wants to sell their music only on AudioJungle and nowhere else. This starts you out immediately at 40% commission and can rise to as much as 70% as you make more sales.
We also have 2 licenses at the moment (and more on the way in the future by the way.) So although you may think your file is “only” worth $10 (as an example) under our Regular license, our Extended License is x5 this amount. So $10 tracks quickly become $50 tracks when you opt-in to our Extended license. I know many AudioJungle authors who are opted-in to the Extended License and have sold tracks for commercial use for $50 each time which is in stark contrast to some of the figures being quoted in this thread.
You also have access to our generous referral system: Each time you refer a new customer to AudioJungle, you receive 30% of whatever amount the customer deposits the first time they make a deposit. This a really great opportunity to increase income just by linking from your personal Web site to AudioJungle for example, when you use our special referral links.
Now, as an author myself on AudioJungle, I very much understand some of the observations and criticisms made about commission %ages for the stock industry as a whole. But as a sitemanager with access to internal-only data, commissions start to make more sense when one considers the overheads that we have to host your music, pay reviewers to proof and publish your music, advertise, promote and market our Web site, attract new customers and then retain them, offer competitions to authors and customers, and so on and so forth. I know authors don’t like to hear that, but unfortunately, as with any business, there are overheads that we have to pay to provide such a service for you.
This is really tricky to discuss specific details in such an open forum so please forgive me if this may sound vague, but what I CAN tell you however is that there are many positive and substantial changes and improvements that have already been discussed and are already planned for AudioJungle, many of which will make authors and our community happy. Basically, I have felt strongly for a long time that AudioJungle authors and customers are a lot different to any of our other successful marketplaces such as ThemeForest, ActiveDen, GraphicRiver and VideoHive etc… and therefore AudioJungle requires some unique modifications that are different to some of our other marketplaces. While I have already proposed some significant changes and improvements for AudioJungle, some of which are imminent, unfortunately, such changes do not happen overnight. As such, my biggest challenge as site manager is not being able to deploy more changes more quickly!
The ideas and plans are there, but because of understandable time, cost and priorities of everyone involved with Envato, it always takes a little time to roll new features out. But we always get there in the end. 
And I hope if there’s anything you take from this, it’s the fact that I know what authors and customers need and want from AudioJungle and I am doing my very best to bring it to AudioJungle as quickly as possible. AudioJungle is already fantastic, but I want to take it to even higher heights. Authors deserve that, and our customers deserve that too. So all I can ask you for is your trust and your patience as we continue to grow and refine who we are, and then judge us based on how we listen and improve.
We are still very young. In fact, it’s hard to believe we are only celebrating our 2nd birthday this month, it feels as though we have been around a lot longer.
I have personally been site manager for only 12 months. But in this short period of time, AudioJungle’s sales and customer base have dramatically improved. I wish I could share actual figures with you but I’m obviously not allowed to do that. 
What I can tell you however, is that we have a very loyal customer base that keeps growing, and it keeps coming back to AudioJungle to purchase even more music time and time again. Why? Because the audio that our authors upload is incredible, we do a good job of only allowing the best audio into our library, we promote your audio each and every day via our blog, our home page, and on Twitter, and our prices are very competitive. The Envato marketplace community is also one of the best communities on the Web. If you’ve never been to AudioJungle before, come check us out. Immerse yourself in the site and within the community and make-up your own mind, don’t rely on my word or other people’s words in this forum, come see for yourself why so many authors and customers love AudioJungle.
The Envato marketplaces are approaching 400,000 members as I write this, which is simply incredible. Making your music instantly available to this kind of automatic customer-base is the envy of our competitors. This is 400,000 potential customers BEFORE any one has searched for us on Google. Which, incidentally, AudioJungle.net ranks #1 with Google for the term “stock audio”. So why not be part of something so successful? Music producers and composers completely have a right to stay with us or go elsewhere. No one is forcing you stay, you always have the right to exercise your freedom.
Authors also have the opportunity to be non-exclusive and sell their music both on AudioJungle AND on competitor Web sites if they wish. But if you’re not on AudioJungle, I seriously think you are forsaking a tremendous opportunity to establish yourself, make money, and get your music heard by future customers (including very high profile media companies).
With such a huge library, it takes hard work to stand out and become successful as a stock audio producer. But if you upload regularly and you appreciate that it’s not just marketing promotion that WE do that makes you successful but that it’s important to market and promote your OWN work, AudioJungle is a fantastic opportunity for any musician to make good sales.
Again, please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions or suggestions, I’d love to hear from you.
Scott.
sitemanager AT audiojungle DOT net
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Some direct responses to some other issues that were raised:
@SolarSound, you said, “I’m displeased with the way this site continuously favors certain artists.” I can assure you we do not favor certain artists. I have responded to you a couple of times already about this in the forums.
Each day, we post a Track of the Day on Twitter and the AudioJungle blog based on the quality/merit of new audio, it has nothing to do with who created it. Likewise, we have a featured author of the week and a featured file of the week which both get home page exposure. There are many other promotions we do similar to this and each time the only thing we favor is quality of music, it has absolutely nothing to do with who composed/produced the piece. Unfortunately, we are not able to promote all of our 16,000 (and growing) items, but we do diligently promote author’s work on a regular basis. Get on Twitter, Tweet me one of your favorite AudioJungle tracks that you have in your portfolio, I’ll be glad to consider retweeting it out to our 3,500+ followers. 
@AndyB said, “But, I have found “Exclusive” artists from Audio Jungle selling the same songs on other sites. If you are a top selling author on Audio Jungle, they seem to let it slide. They just want their customers to feel as if they can only get that content there. It is shady.” That’s not true at all. We take the Exclusivity agreement VERY seriously. If ANY author is reported to our support team regarding breaking the Exclusivity agreement, we investigate every e-mail we receive, and where necessary, we warn and/or ban authors. I encourage you to contact support if you know of any such authors.
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Entropik, May 24th, 2010 at 2:27 pm Reply:
I stopped reading at the totally laughable %25 for non exclusive. That is a complete and utter JOKE. I do not care what your overheads are. They are not more than audiosparx who do amazing amounts of backroom work and charge %60 for it (%50 would be much fairer Barbie
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Stop ripping people off and maybe they will stay with you ( Or even join you) I do not know one good composer who would sign up with that pathetic commission rate.
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Dmytro, May 24th, 2010 at 2:37 pm Reply:
I think that setting own prices on AJ would be a good option (reason to join) to many contributors.
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Andy B, May 24th, 2010 at 5:03 pm Reply:
Scott,
I know we have had this discussion before. I apologize regarding the boycott statement. Authors are free to go where they want. But, I stand by the rest of what I said and others feel. Which is that the commissions are unfair. They work for the top selling artists selling 15-30 tracks a week, but not the rest of us. Also, as I’ve mentioned, I’ve been disappointed at the handling of featured tracks and artists. Part of it, is that I have never had the chance to be featured, and I have asked when I upload tracks, just to be ignored. I have seen artists already selling in big numbers and featured on the recent sales page who have been featured on the front page more than a few times (visual groove comes to mind). And I am often disappointed when there is a new artist featured, that is truly new. Sometimes the quality is lacking. Just my opinion. I am making strides and creating music that is heads and shoulders above anything I’ve done before, and if I’m going to work hard at it, then I need to get paid for it, plain and simple. And I can’t have it discarded by the wayside, never to be found. I need help from the site. Eventually someone is going to take notice to my music. It will happen. For now, most of my music will be going to other royalty free sites that will pay me more like Audiosparx. And I will work harder on those sites to get sales, because they are going to pay me for it and help promote me as well. I hope you understand and don’t take my comments personal, but this site is to form and express our opinions about various music licensing sites.
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Sergei Stern, May 24th, 2010 at 10:38 pm Reply:
Hi Scott,
This topic was discussed on AJ forums a great deal of times with no results.
) ) you won’t go to the PRS forum. You’ll go to the independent forum.
I’ve sent you a personal message now but I have a right to post my thoughts on any forum and this forum especially. This is the forum created by the composer for the composers which discusses Music Libraries – so we are discussing Music Libraries here, including AudioJungle and I don’t see anything negative in it. It is the purpose of the site – to discuss precisely those kinds of problems. Its a business, competitive business from the composers side and from the libraries side too so I think you, as a business owner/manager, have to deal with it as we, composers, have to deal with AJ and other libraries (their prices, their marketing skills, attitude and other things). There are forums about guitars, there are forums about food – the purpose of these forums is to discuss the products and the manufacturers of those products. And if you want to see a review of PRS guitar for example (I bought it a few days ago..
I don’t agree with the remarks of the musicians who claim that you treat the top composers better than others. I’m listening to the top composers music all the time and they are there for the reason. Quality matters. From that point of view AJ is great. I personally got a great attitude from AJ and I’m not the top author/seller there. The review team is great and the site is great.
But whats wrong here is the VERY low prices and VERY low percentages. There are sites as big as AJ and I think they have no less expenses than you do. But they pay 50% and the prices are not 10-12$ per full track, but 20-30$ and yes, there are sites which have different kind of licenses, one more expensive than another. And they don’t pay you 25% on non-exclusive basis – they pay you 45-50% on non-exclusive basis. AJ can’t compete with them at that meanwhile. I hope it will happen during the changes you were talking about. And why should I waste my time on referring people to AJ if there are sites which are more profitable for us, the composers, which I can refer to?
Its great that you have 400,000 clients. But it has another side – if the whole world will buy music from AJ our music will become almost free. We get 25% from 12$ and in most cases the customer pays 10$ instead so we earn 2-2.5$ from the piece of music. If 100 people bought the same track, you get 200-250$ and thats it – noone will buy your track from another site for higher price ever cause AJ sells it for lower price. Marketplace rules – supply/demand.
We can talk about clients, attitude, interface, potential and other things, but what really matters is how much money you make. Its obvious.
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Bobby Cole, May 25th, 2010 at 2:08 am Reply:
Sergei…. well said, perfectly on the money!!! Great post.
I think that what it all comes down to is that no one is forcing us to be on Audio Jungle so we can leave at any time, BUT i think that they need to introduce increasing percentages for non exclusive authors, so for example
You start at 25% and you can gradually increase your percentage if you sell more files. This has to be implemented, and will reward the composers with better and larger libraries. As it stands, a full time professional composer with a degree, thousands of pounds worth of equipment and years of experience will be on the same rate (non exclusive) as a teenager with fruity loops and a laptop….. doesn’t eally make sense does it!
If only Audio Jungle would introduce this then I think it would be a fair compromise. I do like Audio Jungle, and sales have been consistent, but everyone is right, 25% is far too low for the prices that they sell at, and they need to introduce sliding percentages for authors, the more you sell, the higher your percentage gets.
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Denis W, May 25th, 2010 at 4:25 pm Reply:
What I found astonishing about Scott@Audiojungle’s post was when he referred to a 25% commission. Whenever I have ever heard this expression used, it is by an agent/manager or someone who exploits an artists work. They get a 10-25% commission.
This is what I assumed Audiojungle took. To my horror I see they take 75%. The commission he refers too is the creators cut. Guys, this is beyond crazy.
Nobody forces anyone to join this crew but really this is ridiculous. There are plenty of other sites mentioned in this forum who will work very hard for you and not take this ridiculous cut.
As some of the previous posters have said they dont even make any money from this anyway. This kind of operation really should be avoided IMHO and well done to everyone who pulls there content. Thanks again to Art, who without the collective voice of this forum, this kind of thing goes on without being challenged.
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WOW
I don’t even know where to start with that…
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When does the boycott officially begin?
Lets just all withdraw in one day, just like the anti-facebook movement. Facebook lost 30,000 plus in one day. Lets set a time table and stick to it… if we all pull out at once on a specified date it gives them a chance to really consider what is best for the composers before that date or live with the consequences…
Scott, you listening?
Lets start together with notifying the top AJ authors and get the ball rolling… post a link on the AJ forum, etc. Think we can amass the army within 2 months?
I suggest August 1st, if AJ does not change by then, lets walk. I am one of the top authors and I am sure they will notice when I leave as well.
We have had this talk with AJ many times before, on and off the forum and nothing changed for the artists… time to gently force our rights upon them.
Who is with me?
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Matt, June 3rd, 2010 at 3:09 am Reply:
Why wait? Even 35% is a crappy deal, and I doubt they’d go that high if pressured.
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Dmytro, June 3rd, 2010 at 3:44 am Reply:
Already removed.
But the question is – what is the fair deal?
When I was starting I knew nothing about prices and splits (to be honest I was getting too low with them) and this is the main reason – why newbie authors contribute their stuff with such “composer-hostile” conditions (IMHO).
I propose to speak out your thoughts about this topic.
I think that 50/50 is a fair split for sync fees in RF sector (40% is possible but there must be other weighty bonuses – for example – awesome site-traffic).
As for prices – 30usd for “lowest” license type.
What do you think?
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Sergei Stern, June 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 am Reply:
honest rebellion:
Everybody decides for themselves. Anyway, I don’t think all the top composers will leave.. its impossible. There will always be a composer who will sell his music for cheap on any conditions no matter what. And I agree with Matt, I don’t think they will change their terms drastically in the near future.. They earn enough money anyway, cause the traffic is great and the payout percentages work for them well too.
Dmytro:
The fair deal is the point where support and demand meet (economics 101).
I agree with you that 40-50% is great and the price should be 20-30$ for the cheapest license. Thats what the market supplies us nowadays, the composers.
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Matt, June 3rd, 2010 at 3:49 pm Reply:
Absolutely agree that a 50/50 split is best. Ironically the libraries I’ve been involved with that offer less than 50% are the ones with the least sales.
$30 should be a minimum for a RF track 1:30 and longer. Lower than that and you’re in the bargain bin category like AudioMicro… not worth your time uploading, and contributes to a general race to the bottom. Besides, do you really want your ‘name’ associated with ultra cheap music?
I really appreciate it when a RF library gives me the % BEFORE any sales or promotions. It’s that kind of thing that keeps me supplying fresh music to them, no matter how busy I get with writing gigs.
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Mark, June 4th, 2010 at 12:27 am Reply:
“I really appreciate it when a RF library gives me the % BEFORE any sales or promotions”
Right, this is an important point to consider. I worked with one library that implemented a 20% discount on a bulk purchase but took the entire cost of the discount out of the contributor share. We threatened to pull our material and they changed the program.
Another company we work with takes out the cost of burning and printing the CD/DVD out of the composer’s share (they stopped just short of taking the shipping cost out of the composer’s share as well because of my complaints).
These seems like minor things but they add up. Look at your contract and make sure you will always be getting 50% of the *purchase price* for your music.
Promotions and discounts should be on the shoulders of the library, not the composer.
-Mark
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