Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Is YouTube seriously paying $3 for every 1,000 views? Or is that just another ‘alternative fact’? How much does YouTube really pay? Welcome to the million-dollar question for musicians, studios, and rights owners everywhere. Or, shall we say, the million micro-penny question. Just last week, a crack of clarity seemed to poke through the frustrating […]
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I’m sure you’ve read by now the piece that has been shared relentlessly discussing how 69-year-old Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan) was “forced” to go on tour because his album sales money has dried up. Fagen told the Wall Street Journal: “When the bottom fell out of the record business a bunch of years ago, […]
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YouTube is a great place to develop your music career through cover videos. Facebook is a great place if you want those videos ripped down. Now, all of that is about to change. Want to practice your chops and develop an audience by singing cover songs? Then the first step is to absolutely, positively not […]
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If you’re trying to live off your Spotify spins, stop it right now. Taylor Swift makes $400,000 off Spotify in a weekend. But nearly everyone else making bubkes. Which means if you’re hoping to making streaming your breadwinner, you’re probably snacking on crumbs. Enter the latest independent artist to share a royalty statement with Digital […]
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Music sync is like a secret billion-dollar market. Except you need all the right handshakes to get access to it. But a sync agent can only shake so many hands. Which is why artists, songwriters, DJs, and other content owners are starting to make the deals themselves. Before we jump in, DMN would like to […]
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Is YouTube simply lying to artists, labels, and publishers hoping to make money on their platform? YouTube says it wants to help artists make money. But how is that possible if they’re also helping… YouTube ad-blockers? Already, YouTube is notorious for offering the worst payouts to streaming artists. Now, it appears that the Google-owned company […]
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How much does YouTube pay for 1,000,000 views? If you want to make money on YouTube, don’t get millions of views. Get billions of views. Because the only way to make YouTube make sense it with extreme volume. That was confirmed by the latest YouTube royalty statement shared with Digital Music News. Specifically, this is an […]
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