all right today's video is going to be a little more serious as we're talking about getting paid
for your music and also paying other musicians or artists that you might collaborate with
i'm zane welcome to simple green tech and this video is sponsored by DistroKid and they wanted
me to talk about the DistroKid teams feature which is a very convenient and almost a must-have
feature for the modern musician or band but before i get any further i just want to say if you don't
have DistroKid yet and you want to release your music worldwide and keep 100 of the royalties
use the link down in the description to sign up for distrokid and you'll save seven percent off
your membership now what is distrokid teams and why should you care about it
well teams is a feature that allows you to easily set up your collaboration royalties so
if you're in a band and you have several band members that need to get paid this is for you
if you're a solo artist and you collaborate with other artists or musicians regularly
this is for you you can just enter in each member of your team individually and set the percentage
that each one will get and the cool thing is you can set this up for each individual song on an
album so if you have a whole album that you wrote and you did all the music on but you have one song
that maybe you collaborated with another artist on you can set it up so that one song you share
the royalties for whatever percentage that you put in for just that song but the rest of the
album it just goes to you or maybe it goes to you and another band member or another collaborator
you set it up for each individual song and you only have to do it once and once it's
in there distrokid continues to take care of the payments for you there's nothing else for
you to worry about and only the team manager which would be you if you're setting this up
can see the percentages that everyone gets so each team member can only see their own percentage so
you won't have any of the well this guy got paid this much and this person got paid this much they
won't know that unless you tell them of course so let's look at how quick and easy this is to set up
you just enter in the percentage that they get put in their email address and then you can review to
make sure everything's correct and if it is then you just submit it and you'll notice that it says
any current money that you already made on this track won't be split so that's something to keep
in mind there and if the team member that you're adding doesn't have a distrokit account they'll
receive a 50 off discount code to create one and if they never create an account or just take
their time creating it don't worry distrokid's going to hold that money for them until they
create the account and all of this is automatic so you'll only need to enter in the team member once
add their percentage and continue to make music without worrying about if someone got paid and
if you need to change team members and the split that they get that's not a problem you can go in
and change that whenever you want you can even remove collaborators whenever you want and if
you did remove somebody but you want to go back and see what the split was and how much they made
you can easily go back and look at that all that information is saved for you so you won't lose
any of it so why do you need distrokid teams well to make your life as a musician easier you'll be
confident knowing that you get paid and whoever you work with will get paid and this also allows
you to not worry about collaborating with anyone in the future as you'll know that how to easily
take care of all of that payment information and you'll know that distrokid's going to
automatically pay them for you so is there an accounting fee to this does distrokid charge
anything for district teams absolutely not it's included for free with your distrokid membership
it's like hiring an accountant that you don't have to pay and if you want to check out even
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon