Thanks for the tip on this one Mashable. A new website called Friendly Music has just opened up and it’s a good thing for Youtube video publishers.
For $1.99, you can download original professional songs to serve as the soundtrack to your Youtube video. You always have the option of just using a song you already have by a popular artist, but there’s a good chance that the sound will be deleted by the copyright owner of the song or the “click-to-buy” link will appear at the bottom of your video.
In order to avoid both of these cases, you can purchase a song from Friendly Music that you will have the license to and can modify it for your video.
There are a few shortcomings that you need to consider when you buy music from this site. One is that you cannot use the music on a “commercial” video designed to sell something or an ad-supported web series. I would think that web series creators would be an audience that would want this service, but it seems Friendly Music is tilted toward people who want to add music to more personal videos.
But then again, song prices are very cheap at the moment, and you would expect that commercial licensing would cost a lot more. Another slight negative is that you have to attribute the song to an artist, which would probably require brief text in a corner of the video much like music videos on MTV.
I can see Friendly Music being a good site to find a song for a recent event like a family vacation, but professional web content developers may need to look elsewhere for soundtracks for their Youtube videos.
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I am a song writer and I really appreciate services that not only pay us for our music, but help us connect with people who want to pay us for our music and also credit us for writing the music. I think youtube can be a great avenue to find some new fans and even maybe make some money.
Friendly Music seems like a great place to find music for your youtube videos mostly because the content producers (ie, the musicians) actually get paid for their work. This is such a great thing instead of song writers not making any money from their hard work.
Good information as per usual–I always appreciate your articles. I’m always looking for good low cost ways to find music online for my videos. It’s hard to do but when you find the right song, it’s totally worth it.