- Oh, hey, there is one more thing.
Bunch of you were asking
how I was able to use copyrighted music
on my YouTube channel, legally.
There is a way to do it,
and I'll show you how now.
(electronic music)
So this is a service I really like,
and I'll make sure to link it
in the description down below.
This service already has amazing artists,
such as Rick Astley, The Kinks,
Visage that I used in my latest blog,
and it's all real artists with real music,
no copyright claims,
you keep 100% of the revenue.
Finally, there is this opportunity for creators
to use commercially-recognized, popular music
in their creations.
I'm gonna show you how it works.
It's called Lickd,
and you simply register or sign in to an account.
Really easy,
you just link it with your Google account.
I'm gonna do that now quickly.
Linking to your YouTube channel
simply allows Lickd
to see how many views on average you get per video
as that's exactly how the licensing fees
work on this site.
Let's go ahead and license a track.
Okay. It can see how many subscribers I've got,
which is really, really cool.
Now, I can do a search,
for instance, in the search bar,
let's go up here,
and let's look for Visage. Okay.
So Visage is the track I want to use,
and I want to use "Fade To Gray,"
and I really like the orchestral version of this,
absolutely brilliant,
it's a rerelease from 2014,
and I simply, when I find the track, I click License,
as simple as that,
and standard for my channel is just six pounds
or if you're in the US, it will be around $8,
may vary depending on the region you're in,
but you simply click Standard,
and of course, they also have brand sponsored options
that are becoming available as well.
So I've done that,
it's now in my basket.
I can add something else
if I'm feeling in a rather cool musical mood,
and well, for this video for you, I am.
Rick Astley,
his latest album is called "Beautiful Life,"
and I definitely want to use that as well
so I'm gonna click License again,
and as you can see, all these tracks here,
standard licensing.
For a YouTube channel of my size
with my amount of average views is six pounds.
It may vary for you,
but generally, if you're starting out,
if you're a small to medium-sized creator,
this is going to be the price you'll pay.
Okay. Two tracks in my basket,
there they are, can see what they are, perfect,
average video views displayed here.
Now I can go over to payment details,
and you can see here displayed,
I'm paying a 12 pound total price.
Let's click Complete here,
and we'll go through the checkout.
So this is the point where I put in
all of my information.
I'm gonna do that very quickly now.
And there you go.
Now you can see, I have licensed in my account,
"Fade To Gray," the orchestral version from Visage
and also, Rick Astley's "Beautiful Life."
I can go ahead now download these tracks,
very easy to do so.
Click to make sure I understand
I must add the licensing attribution
to my video description,
which is not a problem at all.
It's all here for me.
They also provide a 320 kbps MP3,
so high quality,
that's what I like to see.
Download the track that'll come down
and then I can start to use it.
Okay. Once I've finished downloading my tracks,
I can get rid of that window.
I can go over to the video that I'm editing,
and there are those beautiful MP3 files.
I can drag them,
drop them into Premier Pro
or whatever I'm using to edit my video,
my blog, my YouTube.
And there they are,
and look, here we go,
this is absolutely fantastic.
Now I can drop in a little bit of video footage,
and if I like as well,
I can drop in a little bit of Rick Astley
as the background music,
I'm not gonna get any copyright claims.
This is the way you can use copyrighted music
on YouTube videos, legally, right now.
And if you'd like to use this service yourself,
just go ahead and check the description in the video.
Let me know what commercial and popular song
you're gonna use in the video
or that you'd like to use,
in the comments down below.
(lively upbeat music)