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Thanks Anonymous,
Our clients love all kinds of music, and here is a sweet little buyout from yesterday:
http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/archive/Dramatic/Whimsical-Music/Toy-Piano/478925We try to help everyone get sales, but never know from day to day what our clients need for their productions. While our top sellers are Dramatic, World, and Corporate music, sales occur at AudioSparx each day in a wide variety of genres, so you can always enhance your chance for sales in this business by stretching your creativity and trying something new and exciting…
Cheers and Happy New Year to Everyone!
BarbieA further clarification re Music Cult participation:
We are NOT asking to administer publishing for all of your tracks everywhere in the world. To participate in Music Cult, we are only asking for a non-exclusive publishing arrangement ONLY for all tracks that you have uploaded to AudioSparx.
Regarding publishing administration, if you have us administer publishing non-exclusively for your catalog here, then we do register your tracks are re-titles, with “AALIBRARY” appended to the end of the title.
On the other hand, if you have us administer publishing exclusively for your catalog here, then we do NOT re-title your tracks when we register them at the PRO.
If you elect to participate in Music Cult, then all tracks you have uploaded to AudioSparx will be participating. For example, if you bring AudioSparx a catalog of 20 tracks and check the box to have your tracks at Music Cult, all 20 will be offered there for both synch licensing and gratis blanket licensing.
If you bring us 500 tracks, all 500 will be listed on Music Cult. Many of our top selling artists have checked the box because, logically, they want all of their music out there earning streams of income, and they don’t have time to go through a library of hundreds or several thousand tracks and check individual boxes.
As for us, we are trying to offer our new clients all of the best music our composers bring to us. We welcome either exclusive or non-exclusive tracks, both types of tracks can participate at Music Cult and our other web sites.
For sync licensing sales at Music Cult, if your buyout at AudioSparx is $1500, your buyout price at Music Cult will be $1500, and so forth. Both Music Cult and AudioSparx will use the exact same for-pay pricing methods and parameters.
I reiterate that we plan to have a lot of for-pay sync licenses at Music Cult, which is a win-win for everyone…
Cheers,
Barbie
To skeptical inquirer,
If Art would like, he can move this link to the coming-soon site http://www.MusicCult.com. AudioSparx confidentially announced the formation of Music Cult to give our composers an early opportunity to assign to us the PRO publishing administration for their entire catalog of tracks at AudioSparx, and to opt in for sales at Music Cult to further enhance their streams of income.
As our thoughts have firmed up, we recently decided it definitely will be advantageous to reveal on the Music Cult site that AudioSparx is an affiliated site, since our name carries some nice weight in the industry and among our 260,000 registered clients. Anyone visiting the new site will notice (a) a similarity in artistic design, features and videos, and (b) both sites share many of the same great composers, musicians, bands, orchestras, and (c) for-pay sync license prices at Music Cult to use a track in any production will be identical to the prices set for the same usage at AudioSparx.
BLANKET LICENSE ONLY OFFERED TO MAJOR STUDIOS AND NATIONAL BROADCASTERS — We MAY HAVE many more for-pay sync licensing sales at Music Cult than we do the “gratis blanket licensing,” since the majority of our new clients WILL NOT be major production studios or national TV broadcasters, and thus would not qualify for the blanket license usage. We have no plans to just roll over and give our composers music away unless we expect to receive cue sheets and nice ASCAP, BMI or SESAC backend PRO monies for our composers, and for AudioSparx in return for handling your publishing administration. The site was created to remain competitive with other sites offering blanket licenses, and we intend to pursue collection of the proper backend monies for our participating composers.
PRICING STRUCTURE SAME AS AUDIOSPARX – After several composers expressed concern over pricing and as we tried to envision what types of scenarios will play out with new clients, we opted to offer the Variant Pricing sync license fee structure identical to AudioSparx pricing. Hence if one of our present non broadcasting clients finds your music on Music Cult, he would have to pay the same sync fee he would pay over at AudioSparx.
MUSIC CULT CONTRACT LENGTH RUNS CONCURRENT WITH AUDIOSPARX CONTRACT — The contract length for Music Cult runs concurrently with your AudioSparx Agreement (which has a 5-year contract requirement). If a composer has been with us three years with two years remaining on his 5-year contract, then his music would be required to be for sale at Music Cult for only two years. If a composer joins AudioSparx today and opts in for Music Cult, then we would get to sell his music for five years on both sites — IF HE OPTS IN for representation at our Music Cult site.
AUDIOSPARX ONLY RECEIVES BACKEND PRO MONEY FOR TRACKS WE PLACE FOR YOU — We would remain publisher of record and collect the publisher’s share of any backend monies earned for so long as a track we place on a big TV show, for example, gets picked up and runs in syndication for the next year or 5, 10 or 20 years etc., which does happen occasionally. We accept both exclusive and non exclusive tracks for the new site, and certainly we are “not forcing” anyone to sign up. Early response has been very positive, and we are planning for this site to be a big success. I urge you to log into our site and click the KB tab and read the article about Music Cult if you still have any concerns. As new questions arise, we always address them in our KB articles.
AudioSparx is one of the most aggressive competitors in this business, always developing new sites and ideas about how to feature our composers, getting your name and music out there into the world at large. At AudioSparx, you have the option to be represented on our FIVE different websites (not just one site, like our competitors’ sites), including our newest in-store streaming music site: http://www.radiosparx.com and the upcoming http://www.musiccult.com.
Also, please read this article in our FAQ, which lays out all we do for our composers to justify our earnings:
The Relationship between AudioSparx and Our Vendors
If you have further questions, please click the CONTACT link at the top of our AudioSparx website and we shall respond promptly. Thanks, Art, for having this wonderful forum and for allowing us to come here to answer any composer questions related to AudioSparx and our affiliated sites.
Cheers to all our composers and friends, and have a great, creative week,
Barbie
Art, just checking if you can add me to this thread since for some reason I’m not getting any emails re AudioSparx or other threads that I like to follow. Thanks!
Barbie
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