POND5: What I'm selling on this Royalty-Free Stock Music Marketplace 

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Thanks for sharing Daniel, I had a sale on Pond5 too last night for an 8 second Christmas sting! Thanks as always for sharing all your knowledge

So good to hear you're having success on Pond5. I'm looking forward getting my tracks placed. Thank you for your excellent mentorship.

Great info as always. I don't sell much on pond 5 but sold a premium license the other day. Not sure exactly what that is. It only states that various people can use the music. My music is PRO registered so if anything is used commercially I should hopefully see something for that. They don't really explain clearly what the lisences are.

Hi SML! Are you selling only the Edits or are you puting the whole versions with the edits as of the files people will get when they but the edit?

Thanks for this info. It may very well be invaluable to me. It is absurdly easy for me to make 15 seconds of very cool music. Way before watching this video, I, in a pejorative sense, called myself the "King of the 15 second song." I can make a great start to a song, but actually turning that into a full song is not yet my forte, as I still struggle a bit with song structure. Add to this that my friends and family are used to listening to radio songs, and so they can't appreciate my 'elevator' (background) music, as I do instrumental music only, so nobody I know really likes my music. So this video has given me hope. I can just make a 15 second piece of music and totally not worry about turning it into a full song. Of course, making a 15 second song is very fast compared to making even an 1:30 song. My talent is really making a snippet of music that portrays a very specific feeling. I would have never imagined that 15 seconds of music may be even more valuable when selling royalty-free music. Thanks so much!!!

I have 145 tracks on Pond 5 and 0 listens on most songs. I did get 4 sales in January which was nice but zero sales in February. They sent out a briefing saying to make surf music and to use their special tag for exposure. I made a few surf songs (that is right up my alley) But they all have no listens still. That’s okay though, I’ll keep at it. One day I’ll get in the algorithm more. 👍🏼

We need a video about Trailer Music! Big ups ma friend!

How to upload the track?

I appreciate your work! I wonder, when making the :15 second, :30 second, etc. edits, should they be faded at the end, or should that be left up to the end user? I can see a need for both, but which would be more popular for purchase?

I have sold very less on Pond5 as compared to my sales on AudioJungle, but 90% of those sales were edits. Its actually a great thing to see that you can create more opportunities for sales for yourself, from just one track on Pond5.

oohh nice jazz track .. wasn't expecting that :D

Last year I was doing better on AJ, this year I am selling more on Pond5 and only 1 sale on AJ but people are seeing it 🤔

For someone starting out, what sort of tunes would you say people are currently looking for? Very helpful thanks!

Hello, have been enjoying content videos and knowledge!!!! my concerns now , with stock music what about copywrite does it matter or not and do i need to be set up as a music producer like with ascap or bmi... I have in past years been in contempary gospel. Needing to transition to own person music... I think is is a great transition for me, but I had not notice the background for signing up info to one of these stock music (how do you exactly get paid from them ). I guess what I am asking I am just getting paid directly from one of the stock music business and no need for a middle man if this makes sense. Thank you!!

why do yuo put P5 at the end of track titles?

I’ve found that bed versions are selling well for me recently.

I think I'm going to concentrate on Pond5 again. I've submitted 6 songs to Audiojungle since November and had 4 sales, but my latest upload has been rejected and I personally. thought it was my best and most likely to sell track. I just feel like some of their reviewers just don't like certain styles... I was hoping that after getting a few sales, my tracks would get accepted, but no... so feeling a bitt crap about the whole thing tonight... but uploading a few tracks to Pond5 and see how they do. Thanks for your video and general encouragement :)

thank you for the video - reminds me of creating more 15 second edits..

I priced my musid on pond5 for 10 usd a track, do i get the full 10 usd when someone buys my beat or a percentage? Im trying to figure out how to priice my music

Good to know that Me making 30 second and one minute versions of nearly all of My music might actually pay off more. I did that so I could put a bunch of tracks together as a demo of My music for people to know what I can do. Also I prefer to put short cuts out first before the full track is put up.

How do you know what to put in the 15 30 60 sections? because this is all Greek to me. Sorry for the pun.

What happens when a piece of music gets sold for a TV or radio advert? Surely you get more money than $43 for that no?

The thing about the music industry is -- the top dogs steal tracks from lesser known artist.

Doing "bed" versions of the songs is also a good way of milking them some more on Pond5 and other sites like Vfine. I just mute the lead melody and sell it as "no melody" or "bed".

Gracias Daniel por estos Tips y tu dedicacion a "mentorear" compositores, estoy aprediendo mucho de tus videos antes de experimentar con mi musica. Gracias nuevamente

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