- Hey guys, my name is Matt Johnson.
And today I want to talk to you about music
licensing because Musicbed, one of my favorite
music licensing websites
has made some major changes,
and I think they're gonna end up being awesome
for both wedding filmmakers and YouTubers.
And full disclosure,
yes this is a sponsored video,
but it is one that I reached out
to Musicbed about creating,
because whenever I heard about what they're doing
I got really excited about it.
Rewinding though, if you don't know
who Musicbed is,
they are a music licensing service
that has been around for quite awhile.
And in my opinion, they have one of
the best curated libraries of music available
for license from real musicians.
I've been able to create films like these
through using music license from Musicbed.
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They've been licensing music since 2010,
and in that entire time
they've mostly been focused
on a one-time use business model.
For example, you find this on when you want
a license for a wedding film.
You license it for a one-time use
for $49.00 in that one film.
If you wanna license another song,
it's gonna be another $49.00, etc., etc.
You pay for each song that you want to license.
Well back in April this all changed
when Musicbed announced that they
were gonna be introducing
a membership option for filmmakers.
To be clear, you can still license
individual tracks and pay for them
if you want to.
But you now have a new option of paying
a monthly fee and licensing as many songs
as you want to for your film projects.
And this new membership option is out now.
I hear you now saying, okay, Matt, that's great,
but what is it gonna cost me?
Because honestly that was kind of my reaction
whenever I heard that they were gonna
be introducing membership.
And this is the part where I'm gonna tell you,
you can click the link right down there
in the description at the top,
to go right to Musicbed's membership page
and you can read all about that.
Because this is also the part
where I am going to be kind of
excitedly rambling all about pricing,
because I've been wanting to tell you
about this for awhile,
and I'm really stinkin' excited about it,
so here we go.
The monthly membership pricing is tiered
based upon what you're gonna be using the music
for and the size of your audience.
If you are a YouTuber, if you make videos
for Facebook, for Instagram, Vimeo,
basically any social media, then pricing.
For you to license unlimited songs from Musicbed,
it's gonna start at $9.99 per month.
What? That's crazy.
And if, aw I'm kickin' things over,
I'm so excited.
And if you prepay for a year,
it's gonna start at $99.99.
Remember I said the pricing is tiered though
based on the size of your audience.
And Musicbed measures your audience size
by how many YouTube subscribers
that you currently have.
So if your YouTube channel has
zero to 5,000 YouTube subscribers,
you're gonna be paying that $9.99 per month.
But if you have 5,001 to 10,000
YouTube subscribers,
then your price is gonna go up
to $19.99 per month.
And the price is gonna grow from there as you go.
But the good news is, that even if you have
half a million to a million subscribers,
the maximum that you're gonna be paying
per month is $59.99 per month.
Ha ha, it's so great.
And just like earlier, if you prepay for a year,
that maximum goes down to $39.99 per month.
I realize that was a lot of numbers.
If my explanation wasn't super clear,
I do recommend visiting Musicbed's site
because it is a lot easier to just plug in your
subscriber numbers and figure out
what you're gonna be paying.
But what if you're a wedding filmmaker, like me,
and you license a ton of music every month
for your wedding films?
Well I'm happy to say that Musicbed also has
a tier for wedding filmmakers as well.
And for the wedding filmmaking tier,
if you wanna license unlimited songs
for your wedding films,
it's gonna cost you $79.99 per month,
but, just like earlier, if you prepay for a year,
that goes down to $59.99 per month.
Yes, for roughly $10.00 more than the cost
of licensing one single track from Musicbed,
you can now license unlimited music
for your wedding films.
Oh, that makes me so happy and it's gonna save me
and, I'm sure, a lot of you so much money.
Oh and I hear some of you in the back, too,
saying, Matt, some of us license music
for commercial videos.
Commercial videos are expensive
to license music for.
Well, I have good news for you as well.
Because if you wanna license unlimited music
for commercial videos,
pricing starts at $99.99 per month,
or if you prepay for a year,
that goes down to $89.99 per month.
I have friends that film commercial videos
that are going to be shocked by this pricing.
The pricing sounds pretty awesome overall, right?
There is one other big thing
that we need to talk about though.
One of the biggest issues that I run into
as a filmmaker on YouTube,
is that whenever I upload a video
that has music in it that I have licensed,
it is still flagged
by YouTube's content ID system.
It says I do not have the rights to use this song
and then usually advertisements
are slapped onto the video.
And this can be a major issue
because if I'm trying to monetize the video,
I'm not making the money,
some other rights holder's making the money.
And if I want to turn off ads on the video,
so that my viewers, say the couple that's
watching the wedding film,
that I don't want there to be adds on,
I can not turn those ads off.
Well I'm pleased to say that Musicbed has been
paying attention to this struggle,
and if you have a YouTube membership,
a wedding filmmaking membership,
a commercial filmmaking membership,
basically any membership,
then you can now turn on YouTube monetization
for any of the songs you've licensed
with your membership. Yes.
I'm also pleased to say that this is basically
the end of you having to deal with copyright
claims on your YouTube videos
that have music that you have licensed
with your Musicbed membership.
That sounds awesome, Matt.
How the heck is this gonna happen, though?
Well Musicbed has created a new service
called SyncID, and it is basically magic.
Every song that you license with your Musicbed
membership will have a specific code generated
for it that is called a SyncID,
and this is how Musicbed
has told me that it works.
If you have a YouTube creator membership
with Musicbed, you can link your YouTube account
with your Musicbed membership account.
And then if you license any music
with your Musicbed membership
and you upload a YouTube video
that has the music that you licensed in it,
you will receive a content ID claim
on your YouTube video.
But as soon as you receive it,
SyncID goes to work in the background
to remove the claim,
usually within minutes.
You'll then receive an email from Musicbed
saying your content ID claim has been cleared.
In the background,
SyncID is doing a ton of work,
but you don't have to worry about it at all.
That is awesome.
What if you don't have a YouTube creator
membership with Musicbed though?
What if you are a wedding filmmaker, like me,
and you still want to upload your wedding films
to YouTube and monetize them?
To be clear, you can still
monetize your wedding films,
but as far as connecting your YouTube channel
with your wedding film music membership,
Musicbed tells me that is not possible
to connect those two yet.
Hopefully this will be coming in the future.
I have told Musicbed this is important.
If you would also like to tell them,
please leave a comment on this video,
and I will make sure that they see it.
I do have good news, though,
if you have a different membership account
than a YouTube creator,
such as a wedding filmmaker,
instead of connecting your YouTube channel
to your Musicbed membership account,
every song you license from Musicbed
automatically comes with a SyncID code,
that you can paste into your video description
of your YouTube video.
Or you can request a SyncID code.
And whenever you do receive
a content ID claim on your video for the music,
you can select I Have a License,
and for the explanation,
you can paste that SyncID code.
And with either of those options,
that should remove the content ID claim
from your video within an hour,
and then you're back to monetizing your video.
Keep in mind that because a SyncID code
comes with every song license,
if you're delivering a wedding or corporate
video for a client and they want
to upload it to their YouTube channel,
you can send them the SyncID code,
and they can use it to remove
any copyright claims.
Overall sounds pretty awesome, doesn't it?
Between Musicbed's new membership option
and SyncID, as both a wedding filmmaker
and a YouTuber, I am really excited about this.
And I hope you are, too.
If you wanna check out Musicbed's new membership
option, I highly recommend clicking the link
down in the description of this video.
It is a referral link, so it does help me out
if you click and sign up using that link.
With that, thank you so much for watching.
I hope this video was helpful to you
and gave you some great insight
into music licensing.
As always, if you have any questions or comments,
please feel free to leave one below
or get in touch with me
through my website whoismatt.com.
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