Comments on: Luckstock

By: EagleCinematics

EagleCinematics — Mon, 27 May 2013 19:47:15 +0000

In reply to David Hollandsworth. Thats cool David, at least theres a little action at Luckstock for you :-)

By: David Hollandsworth

David Hollandsworth — Sat, 25 May 2013 23:10:37 +0000

After thinking I would never get a sale I got one today on Luckstock. I am $11 richer!!

By: EagleCinematics

EagleCinematics — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:36:47 +0000

In reply to David Hollandsworth. I have given up on youlicense for now, because their uploading and tagging system is just plain terrible to use.

By: David Hollandsworth

David Hollandsworth — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:55:27 +0000

somehow my post about youlicense.com didn’t get through. anyone use them? you can import songs from soundcloud which is nice… but… they also only allow 10 songs with their free account. upgrading is $29.95 for six months. 🙁

By: David Hollandsworth

David Hollandsworth — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:50:09 +0000

anyone heard of youlicense.com or tried them? they only allow 10 songs for free. $30 for six months. nice part is you can import from soundcloud.

By: EagleCinematics

EagleCinematics — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:56:46 +0000

In reply to Matteo. If you take a look at the Top Authors list you see more sales, but which numbers are correct we can't tell. The only way to find out if LuckStock will sell is to sign up and upload some music. The library is also relatively new, so the sales numbers reflect this, but I think this library will continue to grow. It seems that, right now, mainly corporate music is selling on LuckStock. And yes audiologos / intros / fanfares seems to sell well on most libraries. I have considered doing some myself. Thanks for the info :-)

By: Matteo

Matteo — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:26:46 +0000

i had a look at the library.
one comment: if you go to the music section to show “all the files” you get 391 pages and about 9400 items.
now order the items by “sale”: you will find that the first one “corporate reality” sold 35 times, and items in the 6th pages has no sales at all.
i hope that the sort-algorithm does not work, but if it works this means that on 9400 items, just about 100 got at least one sale.
that means that your probability to sell is about 100/9400 = about 1% and you will not get so much sales here.

it’s always my main concern: you should place your music where buyers are, not where royalties are higher.
and my answer is always that the majority of buyers are at audiojungle (no, i’m not a AJ employe!!!)
on AJ you have 70000 songs (on “music” section) and 2377 pages. if you go to page 1250 you still see songs with 1 sales. that means that an average song has 50% probability to get at least one sale.
so, a lot of songs has been bought on AJ, much more than all the other libraries… sad but true!

btw, this night i had a new sale on pond5: I followed your policy and set the P5 price much higher than AJ, but less than AJ extended licence. so far, on P5 i have sold 9 tracks for 65$ total, since december 2012 (I have audiologos on sale for 10$ and sold several there).
on AJ i have sold 95 items and had about 400$ income since august 2012.
on revostok i am still stuck at 1 sale (13.5$), and no sale at all on musicrevolution (both since dec 2012).
i have about 60-70 items in my library.

I still have to consider productiontrax, did not have time for it… and i have just signed on melodyloops.com (1 track online there… more to come!)

By: EagleCinematics

EagleCinematics — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:06:44 +0000

In reply to Ken.

I asked one guy who makes a living mainly composing royalty free music how much he got in royalties. He said about $100 a month, but the royalties really depends on which libraries you’re signed up to.

If the music is good enough some libraries will accept it into their catalog and pitch the music to TV stations and other media producers. The libraries I list are mostly not pitching the music, they rely on customers coming to their site. So there might not be as many royalties to get from the sales.

I’m not with a PRO yet, but have gotten one of my pieces used in a TV commercial and another by collegehumor.com, so placements do happen 🙂