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I’m interested in knowing more about this… Specifically,
have any users had action from this submission method?
I already have a Getty account. Will my SoundCloud submissions be associated with my existing Pump/Getty account?
Here are two examples…. both are bad ones to give you an idea of the worst case scenario. 🙂
I landed a commercial last year that was 30sec. It played 2000+ times in a Local-TV market all hours of the day. I made about $15 from that one last quarter.
In 2011 I composed the theme for a TV show on the Outdoor Channel. The show aired 3x per week for 52 weeks. My music was used for the intro and was about 1:45 of background music. I made ZERO from ASCAP b/c they didn’t “survey” that show that year. Despite my efforts of collecting and submitting cue sheets, and emailing several people….
Bottom line, it’s a quantity gig for most. Get hundreds of placements if you can. Charge enough when doing the production work and the royalties are a nice bonus. Don’t expect to do well giving your music away and hoping the PROs will send a fatty check.
I’ve made a few dogs…. usually the idea is interesting at first and I’ll just finish it out. Maybe upload it for a period of time in a library. Some months or years later, I’ll go back and listen again. If I don’t like it then, it gets trashed.
Face it… some ideas are OK and might be worth finishing…. and some ideas are just bad ones. To the dumpster I say.
… or at least to the generic discount bin with an alias name. 🙂