Indie Artist Tip Of The Day – 12 Places To License Your Music

© 2011 Vinny Ribas

Music licensing has become a very valuable marketing and/or revenue-generating  tool for indie artists. However, when most artists think of licensing, they limit themselves to feature films and TV. But just think about this for second. Almost every time you hear music, regardless of where you are or what you are doing, someone somewhere was looking to find the right song! Here are 10 more places that you can try!

1. Feature films
2.  TV shows
3. Documentaries
4. Independent films
5. Film shorts
6. Commercials – national and local
7. Video games
8. Products – from doorbells to teddy bears to greeting cards
9. Corporate films – both training films and investor presentations
10. Web commercials – think of all the websites that have videos about their products on their home page
11. For personal videos – people put music behind their personal videos of their wedding, family, vacation, pets etc.
12. License your tracks without lead vocals to singers who want to record your songs.

There is no end to the possibilities! The need for music is everywhere, and it’s not going away any time soon. Combine that with the fact that the major labels often want exorbitant amounts of money to use their music, and you get a wide open field for indie artists!

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