Thank you very much Sak, this is exactly the kind of information I am looking for. This gives a better idea of staring points when testing track pricing. The price is actually higher than I thought.

And you’re absolutely right about composing music that can be used for lots of different videos is key to making many sales. One “trick” is to compose music that is similar to the best selling tracks on the RF libraries.

I am glad you find the information on the blog useful 🙂

To give you a little insight into the prices that corporate buyers have:

Here in the UK, I have composed for one small corporate video production company who make web-based films. They typically are prepared to pay between £75 and £120 per track, which is around $120 – $190, for standard feelgood rock and pop tracks from Royalty Free Sites.

You are absolutely right to keep your prices high. Corporate buyers can and will pay good money for a track that will make their video better. The tricky thing is composing the kind of track which can be used in a lot of different types of videos.

Best of luck to you.

I think that most produces that have some money to spend go directly to the stock music library of their choice. So being able to make sales at a higher price from YouTube clicks don’t seem likely to me.

I don’t have any statistics on how well traffic from YouTube converts, but there can be no doubt about a nicely targeted (keyword matched) ad or YouTube video will increase the chances of a click through and a sale.

You cannot set-up advance tracking at the stock music libraries (at least I don’t know any where you can). The best way to test how well YouTube traffic converts would therefore be to set-up your own little web-shop and direct the YouTube traffic there. A little web-shop could for example be set-up with e-junkie to keep the cost minimal 🙂