I sold $75 worth of work this month and I’m happy because I didn’t go over $50 in February. I think sales have dropped for everyone, whether they’re elite or not. I have 1000+ works on the market.
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I sold a large broadcast license on Wednesday this week but sales this month have been shockingly bad..
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9 sales this month, could be worse.
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The month of sales is over. I made the maximum discounts on purpose. 5$. I earned $4. There were 6 sales. All sales were discounted. Even if I had one sale at a regular cost last month, I would have earned twice as much! What’s the point of selling your time at that price all the time??? A question for those selling for five bucks.
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No point to sell that cheap.
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So many sales for the Premium Beat account, hard to compete …
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Yes, it’s super professional!
And at Nice prices!
Nothing to do with us!!!
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To be perfectly honest, and it does pain me to say this, I’ve found more satisfaction in making music for other sites, where I’ve discovered my work is actually appreciated and isn’t buried and forgotten. In recent years, Audiojungle has been a rollercoaster of disappointments, and from the look of it, the ride isn’t over. Everyime I think about returning here, I just have to glance over the forums for new reasons not to.
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@popraz
Yes, and yet you have very good compositions!!!
I’d like to know about your other sales sites…?
It would be nice if you could tell me… (MP, or here, after all, let Envato understand!!!).
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As far as I know, the drop in sales affected the whole stock music market. Not only Envato. Tell me one producer or musician who experienced over the last 3 years an increase in sales. Not to forget: nearly all libraries have changed to subscription models. AudioJungle is a dinosaur with selling single licenses to the market. Most of the customers find their needed content in subscription based libraries. Also not to forget: Some creators use more and more AI services.
Selling a single license on AJ is an absolute exception nowadays. That’s how the market works.
It’s not Envato’s fault. It’s the development of technology and how customers deal with it. Does anyone think, if Envato had not introduced Elements, we would stay at another point and still sell single licenses? For sure not.
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I’m not sure if I’m breaking any rules, but I’ll take my chances. Outside of AJ, for the last two years I have been building new portfolios on Pond5, DespositPhotos, Dreamstime, 123RF, TemplateMonster and MusicRevolution. I currently have around 50 non-exlclusive tracks on all of them. Dreamstime is the worst. I haven’t been able to sell a single track there, followed by DepositPhotos, where sales trickle only occasionally. And when I say sales, I mean mostly subscription-based downloads, which is the case everywhere these days. As far as I know, unlike Envato, everyone is doing subscription and single-licenses simultaneously.
Pond5, 123RF and TemplateMonster perform more in line with my better AJ days, though keep in mind I’ve never been a huge seller. Sales and downloads are mostly in the single-digit range per month and not particularly constant, but overall I’m seeing more activity and earnings than on AJ, especially considering I have a small portfolio and I don’t upload more than one or two tracks per month. It’s also worth mentioning that I’ve sold tracks that AJ has rejected, a couple of them performing surprisingly well, which makes me wonder about AJ’s review policy.
Out of all the aforementioned sites (AJ included), MusicRevolution is currently my biggest in terms of both sales/downloads and earnings. I started there with only a couple of sales per month from my first few tracks and I’m now getting around 20-30/month on average. In two years I’ve sold roughly as many tracks as I’ve sold in 15 years on AJ (353), which has been a pleasant surprise considering my style of music is not what I would call mainstream. I find it interesting and refreshing that I’ve been able to sell the kind of music that never had any success on AJ, or that reviewers would flat out reject, which makes MusicRevolution my favorite platform to sell music on. I feel like I have the creative freedom to experiment and explore with my music, and it’s just a feeling I never got on AJ, especially in recent years.
Since I’m not a member of Elements, I can’t compare my experience on these sites with what I could have sold or earned there, so I don’t know how useful this information will be, but, in a nutshell, this has been my off-AJ journey. All in all, I’d say it was worth it, and I’m honestly sorry I didn’t start earlier.
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@popraz
Many thanks for your clear and detailed answers!
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The whole point is to probably see outside the world we already know. The Markets. While licensing is most part of my music income, I know that I have to keep to build this portfolio for other platforms, but also for Youtube and my content ID earning. So at the end, the way of selling or making a living with it is very hard with the market itself, but with content ID, YouTube, probably distribution, opportunities are still there I believe. I start to see more BMI earning, more content ID, first mechanicals money. All of this is the part of the fruit I planted back in the days. So I guess the same will happen with the track I release today.
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