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I am a full-time composer who works mostly in the buyout scene. I have been very successful with other online music libraries. After putting up 10 of my songs here there hasn’t been any interest at all. It was a waste of time for me to do this and have to use their interface to define-categorize my songs. I think the idea behind the site is modern and good, but this site in itself is too vague and hard for clients to know where quality is if anything goes.
Anyone use YouLicense?
I checked how much it would cost for a commercial license via YouLicense for a feature film with a budget over 40 million….it came back with a $122,080 fee! Is any film company going to pay near that much when they can go over to Pump Audio and pay $5000….or save the 100 grand for a Rolling Stones track???
I maybe wrong, but I think you’re supposed to enter the “music budget” not the entire film budget.
I recently received an offer for 1 of my songs on YouLicense. I wasn’t happy with the money.
Is there a lot of give and take between buyers and sellers insofar as negotiating for a better price for the seller?
I tried everything to get to PurePlay music thru Youlicence submission system, but nothing works. Strange ๐
how do you delete from youlicense,
Richy,
Click on “My Songs”. Just above the “Find Song” search field you’ll see a checkbox option titled “Enable Delete”. Check that and it should add a “Delete” button beside each of your songs.
To delete your account entirely, I don’t know. But to downgrade from a paid account you would need to cancel the subscription via your Paypal account.
I’m not far off deleting my account with YL. Have submitted to multiple opportunities but no sales and the quantity and quality of leads is a bit stagnant (IMO). I did make one quality contact through this service but nothing has come of it yet. I have no negative comments – it just isn’t really working for me.
Honestly, I’m doing far better by researching libraries and cold-calling the ones I want.
Sad to hear that Rob.. cos I just set up a free account with lots of hope & am wondering if I should upgrade to pro..
I like the quick licensing ability & being able to license directly seems cool, but perhaps the traffic there might be ridiculously slow.. only had 2 plays in the last 4 days..
Has anyone here gotten a more positive experience after upgrading?
Other than being able to upload more songs & submit more trax, what are the other advantages to upgrading?
K
Hey K,
There is any number of factors in confluence that could have lead to my flat experience there. I would not discourage anyone else from using the service, and it appears some have had success there. It just doesn’t seem to be working for me.
Thanks Rob..
I may just join for 6 months & report back on the progress..
K
Track plays have increased more than 10 fold since I went Pro..
Am regularly adding more trax, 38 so far..
Still no sales as of yet.. very early days I know..
Response to composer issues have been very good I must add..
K
Good luck there, KO. My subscription lapses 28th this month. I won’t be renewing it. My best outcomes so far have been through FMN and cold calling.
Thanks Rob.. I’m gonna need that from the feedback so far..
A couple of friends recommended FMH before.. I might try that out soon too..
I guess the best approach for beginners is to try out a bit of everything til’ we find out what works best for us perhaps..
Regards,
K
K.O. wrote: “I guess the best approach for beginners is to try out a bit of everything til’ we find out what works best for us perhaps..”
Agree 100%.
Ok.. so after going PRO for 1 year plus, I’m deleting my account now.. I had only 1 sale there & for $4.. I felt insulted, took down all my 50 plus tracks.. Moving on.. Not saying they’re good or bad, just didn’t work for me..
K
Forgive my ignorance. What’s FMH?
It’s FMN, Film Music Network.
I wonder about this in their terms:
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ARTICLE II
NON-EXCLUSIVE LICENSE
2.1 Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Artist hereby grants to YouLicense a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, royalty-free, sub-licenseable and transferable license, without compensation, liability or notice to Artist, to (in each case directly or through subcontractors):
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I realize that most non-exclusive libraries will ask for those kinds of terms but if they are not a library and just acting as a conduit why those terms? Just curious.
This is the future of music licensing. No middle man. I just got my first license with them and it could not have been easier. An offer was made, terms accepted and money received via Paypal the very same day.
I put a few of my tracks on Youlicense four months ago. I have a free account with them so they take a 10% cut from any fee’s I receive. I’ve had 5 licenses so far and one of these was via the submission route.You can make one free submission per month if you have a free account. I really cant fault them to be honest.Whilst I haven’t made heaps of money through the site I am pleased that I didn’t have to pay a sign up fee and 10% is a pretty decent cut. I am intending to pay for an account now as I want to upload more than 10 songs and I think the fee is decent especially when you consider that they take no commission fee’s when you have a paid-for account.
That seems pretty good. How many plays did you have on the tracks you licensed?
There’s quite a big variance. One of them has had just 5 plays, one about 100 and one has 1500. I don’t think the number of plays has increased my chances – I think its really important to correctly tag the songs so that they are easily searched for by buyers. I know that someone has mentioned here that it takes a while to submit each track but the best bit of advice I have seen on this site is to ensure you spend time tagging your tracks correctly. This seems to have worked for me.
That is quite a range!