- In this video,
I'll show you how to use copyrighted songs
on YouTube legally.
♪ Let me feel your love ♪
Okay, how did I play that intro song in my video?
It's quite simple,
I use a service called Lickd
and you're gonna see it in action now.
They've got a brand new look website, fully updated.
It not only includes chart hits,
but also better than stock music.
Usually, you'd spend thousands to license music,
especially chart music for your videos, but no longer.
Most creators still don't realize it's possible
to use famous music in their videos.
Lickd have done the deals us with the big labels
like Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group,
Sony Music BMG, and Empire to make it happen.
With Lickd, you can put stuff up on YouTube,
Facebook, Instagram, et cetera,
and the licensing is taken care for you really easily.
I'll show you how right now.
First of all, if you haven't done so already,
you would sign up, and you'd of course tick
tell me when new music is available,
I always like to know that.
You accept the terms and conditions and privacy policy,
and then you'll sign up with Google
that's because it's connected to your YouTube account,
and then it lets Lickd know roughly how many views you get
so it knows how much to charge you.
But most importantly,
it's so that Lickd can clear any copyright claims
on your YouTube channel.
Everything's taken care.
No more spending thousands
and worrying about how to license music.
It's all done for you really simply.
Now, I've got an account so I'll log in.
And once I'm logged in to Lickd, I can search for music,
or I can look at their great curated playlists here
with lots of well known popular artists
such as David Guetta, Rita Ora, and Mabel, and so many more.
It's just a fantastic and growing playlist here
of around a million chart hits which is pretty cool.
There's also Lickd Essentials.
That's there, better than stock music,
and we'll look at that in a moment.
But first of all, if I go through and search,
I might go and look for that ATB track
that I used at the start.
I just type in ATB here in the search bar,
and boom, straight away,
it's gonna bring up all the matches.
And there it is, "Your Love".
So say I wanted to use this in a video,
as I have done in this video,
I'd just click the License button here.
Now, of course, I can play it to audition it.
(upbeat music)
Make sure it is the right track, which indeed it is.
I can even heart it
if I'm going to be using this a lot in my videos.
It's now added to my favorites.
Then I click License,
and it gives me the opportunity for a Standard License.
This fee is based on my geographic region
and the size of my YouTube channel.
So if you are in the U.S. or somewhere else,
you may get dollars.
And also, if you've got a humongous YouTube channel
with millions of subscribers,
you may pay a little bit more.
But of course, that makes sense,
depending on the size of your channel,
the revenue you're generating,
and the amount of people that are gonna be playing
this track that you're licensing.
So I'll click standard here,
and then that's added to my cart.
Now, you'll notice here as well,
when I do click License,
there's the opportunity on some songs
for brand sponsored licensing.
Not this particular track,
but many songs have that opportunity.
And if you are going to be featuring a brand
or doing a sponsored video,
that's the option you'd go for.
So now I can go to the checkout here.
I can see that track in my cart ready to go.
So I make sure I tick
I've read the license agreement for tracks in my basket,
and also I've read the additional rights holder terms.
In some instances, you'll get that too.
And then you see your total to pay.
And it's very simple, you just check out.
It's as simple as that.
Look at that.
My song has been ordered
and I now have the ability
to download the track if I want to.
I also need to tick that
I understand I must add this licensing attribution
to my video description.
So here, it's a very short thing that you add
into the description of your video.
And this allows Lickd, and of course,
services like YouTube, or Facebook, or whatever
to check that you've licensed the track.
You've got a unique license ID here,
and then the automated system should take care of things
and make sure you don't get a copyright claim.
So tick that, download the track.
You'll get it as an MP3 file
that you can then use in your video editing software.
It really is as easy as that.
So I've done that
and I can always come back to my account
and view the licenses in the future if I need to,
if I need to make any updates or changes.
So you'll see there's a bunch of really good tracks
that I can choose from.
I was deciding whether to use ATB in this,
or maybe something like "In Your Arms."
I also was very keen on using
"Titanium" with David Guetta and Sia.
There's some really, really good tracks,
and it's constantly growing.
And let me know in the comments,
what song or artist would you like to use
in your next video?
I'm really interested to hear
if there is a particular artist you would like to license
and use on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and so on.
Let me know in the comments down below.
Let's hop back in now
and take a look at the search music function,
and check out Lickd Essentials
which is an ongoing subscription service,
and it's all the stock music.
In fact, Lickd call it better than stock,
and it is, and I'll show you why right now.
You can use background tracks, tracks with vocals in,
and it's all high quality library production music.
When I was working in radio,
I had access to many production libraries,
and this is on that level and above.
It's certainly not like many other royalty free sites
I've experienced in the past.
So let's go and search for some music right now.
And in this case, I'm going to switch over to Essentials
which of course is the subscription stock library.
And that'll bring up all of the essentials
included in my Lickd Essential subscription.
By the way, there is a 60 day free trial
if you sign up using my link at mrc.fm/lickd.
Let's continue, and I'm gonna sort by most licensed,
so I can find the most popular stock music in here.
I can also sort by mood and theme if I want.
Genre is available to me.
The duration, the tempo, everything is available to you.
So really, you do have a lot of options here to dial it in
to get the exact right track for the video you're creating.
Let's have a listen to some of these Lickd Essential songs.
(upbeat music)
This is pretty cool, isn't it?
Yeah, I can imagine lying back on a sofa, chilling,
listening to this.
We've got "Bombay Beach" as well.
(calm music)
"Deadly serious."
(calm music)
"So long."
(joyful music)
There's a little bit of music for every scenario
that you might be creating in your videos.
"Rock Til You Drop."
(upbeat music)
Well, that's self explanatory, isn't it?
Just a tip here,
I've searched sting in the search bar,
and you get all kinds of stings available
(upbeat music)
in Lickd Essentials
so you can use them as intros and outros in your videos.
All part of the Lickd Essential library.
Yeah, and all of this stuff can be used
in your YouTube videos, on Facebook, on Instagram,
social media, all as part of an ongoing subscription.
It's called Lickd Essentials, 60 days free.
Absolutely amazing.
So you can audition the track.
If I like this song, "Poker", I can click License.
It'll again, add to my cart there.
I can maybe pause that now.
And then I go through, and of course,
because I have a Lickd Essential subscription,
it is included with Lickd Essential so no charge here,
I'm just simply licensing this track.
I tick to agree to the license agreement
for the tracks in my basket,
check out, as simple as that, and then it's there.
It's ready to download.
Again, there's attribution with a unique license ID
that I need to include in my video.
I tick that I understand this, and I download the MP3 file.
So there you go.
I've been a big supporter of Lickd from the very start.
I really believe in what they're doing
for creators like you and I.
They've got a million plus chart tracks.
They've got thousands of better than stock music.
They've got about an 80,000 strong community
of creators using them.
There's 50% off your first chart track
if you use my link
and 60 days free Lickd Essentials.
So, it's a great deal just for you to try out.
Use my link, mrc.fm/lickd.
That is, mrc.fm/lickd.
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