This week we added a new introductory video to the front (home) page of the LicenseQuote website. The new LicenseQuote Buyers Intro video gives music supervisors and licensing buyers coming to our site a brief welcome message and orientation to using the Global Store to find music, register, save favorites to their projects, get license quotes, […]

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Here’s a list of the most popular (prevalent) genres on the LicenseQuote Global Store page. The research, using the keywords search filter, was done in September 2013 to identify to most popular “top 50” genres found in the LQ Global Store. They are listed below from the most popular (at top) and on down, based […]

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This report is of interest to our publishing clients plus any interested music supervisors and licensing buyers. It provides an overview of the current LicenseQuote site activity and trends along with some related commentary. Primary content providers Number of active publishers – 239 (includes Free plan members) Accounts with storage plans – 54% (LQ integrated […]

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Recently, on June 25, 2013, we released a new site and licensing store with waveform player and many new publisher and buyer-facing features and options. This article highlight some of the most important new features and updates. Rolling out the new site design Along with rolling out the new LicenseQuote site design, we also released […]

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This article discusses what happens when music licensing buyers have questions or need support about their license inquiries and purchases made from publishers using the LicenseQuote service. Below we’ll review some of the most common issues along with our best suggested solutions. Login issues Wrong login place – Sometimes buyers try to login on the […]

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This brief guide, contributed by Marina Garza of Tag Team Analysis, helps artists, composers and publishers understand proper tagging protocol so their music can be searched out from the sea of tracks presented for licensing. Marina says “after tagging music for Pandora and currently tagging and collecting metadata for licensing companies, I have accrued some […]

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This demo will let you download and preview the songs meta data file used in our Live Demo store on the LicenseQuote site.  As a publisher, you can use this to get familiar with the songs data format in case you’re interested in adding many songs for importing to your catalog and appearance in your […]

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We normally get some questions from newer publishers during their FREE trial period about the use of their account, setup and LicenseQuote powered store. Below is a question about applying a promotion code for licensing buyers to get discounts in your store, in case you wish to offer such option. Our answer provides a brief […]

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This article covers the basic information and steps to customizing the standard (default) licensing contract that comes with each LicenseQuote publisher subscription account. How the license contract is set up Your LicenseQuote publisher account starts with one standard license contract (online template) which is auto-populated at time of sale with the specifics of the licensed […]

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This article was contributed by Steven Cravis, a long time LicenseQuote publishing client who has learned from first-hand experience how to promote both his retail and commercial music licensing sales. CD Baby offers SoundCloud partnership feature Recently CDbaby announced it’s partnership and automatic send of CDbaby music to Soundcloud. All it takes is for each […]

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