I wanna know, why most of people have lowered their prices to about $1 - 5$ for music? I hear a lot of professional work and no appreciation of their own work.
I understand, that sales have gone lower or so, but if we lower that much price and we create something, that we feel should be sold for very high price, we are going to lose costumers and system will be ruined.
(Use instead discounts for some period)
Appreciate your work and i wish many sales for everyone!
Cheers
I don’t know for sure, but maybe it’s a part of a strategy. To increase visibility for instance. However I doubt that it works well.
Not a good strategy indeed. If that was true, then it will drive them so fast away as you start to bring prices up.
The dumping strategy is the only one which last to try to bring sales to your profile. This is not really about money making. But more the need to see your portfolio active than see it dead. A 5$ sales, can lead with luck to some extend revenue, like content ID (and sometime extended sales). It’s more easy to get 30 sales a month at 5$ than 2 sales priced at 20 on this market now. Customers get used to low price. You can’t beat the market especially when you can get 10 / 20 / unlimited track on subscription site for 16 bucks a month 
It’s also depend on how you imagine your overall stock income. If it’s something as yearly bonus so you are not really interested if you make 10 sales only on December at regular priced but nothing for the whole year. Or if you still see it monthly mixed with all your other stock / musical activities. It’s up to everyone to defined their strategy but the 5$ track is not more something which is weird. It’s been many years it’s now there We are both agree that the situation is clearly not a good one but from my personal experience I’m tired to fight against the beast aha. I can’t accept to see my music going nowhere and never be used after such long hours and years of work. But now I’m letting it go and moving slowly to some other project and I plan also to come back from time to time on stock site for sure. It’s now a mainly passive activity
I agree with you. When you don’t see any movement/sales days and weeks, it starts to become demotivating. You begin to think - why is this all for then? Maybe that’s the point when people start to lower the prices.
In some ways i agree.
I’ve seen also, for $5 some really good/professional tracks are not sold.
Why i made this post, cause it’s not the price, but the people.
As we lower the price, it should’ve increase the sales, but as being here about 10 years, it has changed a lot and changing the price at this moment, doesn’t increase your sales.
I would recommend to send your music to some streamers, bloggers etc, for more exposure (if you have your track distributed on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon etc), that would lead more people to you and you could earn more with people streaming your music.
Anyways, i don’t disagree with anyone, we are pointing out our opinion and that is good 
As a reminder, a $5 sale means 45 cents in your pocket. 
True. You have to have this track distributed to streaming services and so on, so you would get real good exposure, if your track is bought by some good costumer.
I had one track bought by SONY, they used it as to promote new phone long time ago and it got me more than 200k streams on Spotify, which paid me about $800 USD.
That’s true, but it’s same on other website now, Motion array pay even less, Motion elements probably the same, Tune Pocket is about 0,50 cents by DL, Depositphotos pay even less, sometime you can have 0,05 cents. At least on AJ you have the extended license The thing I want to say is that those price and earning are here everywhere and at the end nobody can’t beat that. You have totally the right to not follow this trend but there’s no doubt to have that your sales and traffic will keep to decrease on the long run, and earning too. No matter how good your tracks are, no matter how steady you are with your upload. I did all the price experiment those last year, I was steady enough and had a good increase regarding quality, nothing works to me. Expect dumping my prices.
All the site where I used to have some little top sellers tracks, bringing extended sales at 80$ like 100 AUDIO, Vfine, they are all dead. All site where I see a fair price where my music is uploaded, nothing happen. Those are totally quiet, not even a single a sale a year while back in the day, it was steady and reliable
This is a really good call ! Streaming and upload our work on those platform can only help for having better earning. At this time my overall earning increase is there because of instagramm. I got a track which is used on a daily basis in 100 / 150 reels a day ! Many META verified and many videos with many many views !
The extended license is a hoax, many TV or radio channels and video game companies buy the standard license and no one will control their use, since you have no information on the use of your music.
Mmm, extended licenses are in the process of being phagocyted by Elements so soon we won’t have that either. Spreading, CID and PROs is what’s left, I guess.
You have both right on that point ! Also other competitor site like MA and such sub site had already killed that extended uses etc. My overall point is, we can’t do nothing, the situation is terribly bad, it’s better to let it go or play the pitty game of price, moving on to something else, see stock as one of the musical income you can get by remaining passive or a little active. Work on other project, try to develop other thing, and keep it up on musical creation and musical thing.
I myself think, i keep my prices above $10.
I might find perfect buyer, who sees that i appreciate my music and feels that i put hard work on it.
Those buyers might be the ones, who will change your musical career.
Gonna hope on that.
Surely those track i will distribute on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc.
With iTunes, your track will be added to Shazam too, if people would like to find your music when it is being used.
Just my opinion
And we should keep putting our opinions in here, hoping to find perfect solution for everyone.
Cheers
I really like your perspective for sure, and it’s good if you find the right spot !
The most important is to keep it up and keep to do the thing which work well for you
And yes every opinions are worth, it’s help to re-think, taking some step back and help each other ! Thanks for your sharing
I’m also thankful that you all have joined and giving your opinion!
Thank you!
If a TV station or other broadcasters get caught without a proper broadcast license, that is a very serious issue, with legal consequences. I caught a few of them, and when confronted, they usually pay-up and apologize swiftly.
If true, this is very serious. The whole AJ community rallied against this a few years ago. It was a great victory for us then. If Envato is walking back on this issue, then we need to pick up this fight!
There’s one thing authors can do… not partake in schemes that are terrible for them.
Dumping prices is terrible for authors (for those who do, as well as for those who don’t). Well you can choose not to do it.
Elements is a terrible business model that has destroyed our community… well you can choose not to feed the beast.
As long as I’m not making money, I’d rather do it at $49 than at $5. I’ll be poor both ways, but I’m keeping my head up high.
Yes, exactly, but no one will do. I remember when Artlist took the lead of motion array. Which had totally killed all the earning here. Some authors had started to take some action, we had all started to remove our portfolio etc. But nobody had follow, many people remain quiet, did nothing, keep their little earning in there, and at the end, everything remain the same. Less earning for everyone, no action, no tchat. They removed the slack forum, no more interaction, nothing. And it’s like that all the time no matter the site and the situation.
My point is not to be poor or sucessulf in there. It won’t happen. Having sales, little one, even cheaper, is better for me to see that it can lead to something with CID / PRO or more visibility, customers relation ship (it’s happened to me thanks to my 5$ tracks, I also have a steady customers who came each month purchasing up to 5 tracks on my portfolio at 5$ etc). One sale can lead to something. Few cents right now is better for me than an abysmal void which will keep to grow.
Another point that I’m trying to learn thanks to those hard year is to learn to let it go, at some point we are still here trying to debate (which is important) on who is the guilty, before was better, good old days, dignity, fair prices, we are all so stick to the old thing, when time were great. At the end it’s create more negativity, more anger feeling or bad energy, than just let it go. My stock carrer won’t be a success, that’s okay. I will find another purpose with all the skills I learned. My overall music carrer is not dead. And even the stock one can still exist etc.
I think it’s time to move on, seriously, we can’t go there each month and repeating the same thing over and over, AH THOSE 5 DOLLAR GUYS, AHHH ELEMENTS AUTHOR, like if it was something news. The impact is still huge on our motivation and feeling, but all of this is just bad energies, reviving all days that bad reaction is the best way to remain stuck forever on something which won’t happen again.
We are musician, artists we all come back to music, no matter the market. Don’t forget the music, that’s probably the most precious.
Fair enough. I get your point, and I admire your positive attitude towards it all. (Are you sure you’re French? 
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Just to be clear, when I come back to authors choosing to be part of Elements, it’s not about pointing fingers. Many authors who I look up to and admire have joined, and I still admire them. I do think we would all be a lot better off if none of them had, but I don’t think less of them individually for having done so. My point is just to empower authors. Authors still have the power not to accept unacceptable deals.
But I hear ya, and obviously I’ve failed at trying to convey this idea. I never meant to bring bad energy. I guess I have to come to terms with it.
C’est peut-être juste du déni
And I think all your post are worth it because of this, you don’t fail at trying to bring the little change or little switch in the head of people. You don’t bring bad energies at all, I said that for everyone around, me include. Because we repeat / reviving the same bad thing all over and over. But at the end of all of this we are totally sharing the same point of view and vision about it, we just make different choices and decision