How to find royalty-free marketing videos to post on YouTube

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• "Chuki Beats Chuki hip-hop is another YouTube channel which provides free to use high-quality music."
• "Vexento Vexento is a YouTube channel which provides free to use high-quality music."
• "Vlog Non Copyright Music Vlog Non-Copyrighted Music promotes great music that’s free to download and use on YouTube and Twitch videos, always giving credit to the artist."
• "Today, YouTube is expanding the library with new royalty-free tracks, which can be downloaded, remixed and used in creative projects."
• "Purple Planet Royalty-free music ideal for film-makers and media projects such as youtube, advertising and background music for the video."
• "Music Screen The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America."

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• "Price range: Tracks starting at $1 Licensing: Royalty free Why we love it: AudioBlocks is our go-to source for music and sound effects on the Buffer Podcast as well as a variety of videos we’ve created for social media."
• "Price range: Unlimited downloads start at $99/year Licensing: Public domain & Creative Commons Why we love it: Free Music Archive (directed by WFMU) is one of the most prolific websites online for discovering a range of curated background music and sounds for all types of content."
• "Price range: Free (with attribution) or 1-year unlimited downloads for $129 Licensing: Royalty free Why we love it: Did you know that Amazon has more than 56 thousand free tunes and sound tracks that you can easily incorporate in your video backgrounds? Price range: Free or premium tracks start at $0.99 Licensing: Creative Commons Why we love it: In talking to several marketers while putting together this article, ccMixter was one of the most consistent websites mentioned for finding fantastic background music."

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• "Businesses create 2-5 minute long videos about specific topics depicting their product and services and then upload it to various video sharing websites like YouTube for distribution and exposure.As videos are very appealing & have better retention, videos serve as an alternate medium for businesses to convey their message to a wider audience and get more exposure."
• "Also, these can help buyers to decide by increasing their purchase intent.All in all, video is proven to bring better conversion when blended with Email, landing page, blog or social media.Popular brands like Google and Samsung are ruling the video marketing world with their unique strategies and engaging content."
• "low competition keywords.To rank your video in YouTube search results and Google both, you’d need to focus on following matricesUser retentionRatio of likes vs dislikeVideo CommentsSubscribers earned on that particular videoSharesCTRTo promote your video, you can reach out the social media platforms/ Influencers/ Q&A sites like Quora.How Can You Add Call to Action in Videos?For directing your viewers to a clear next step is the key to strategic video marketing."

Transcript: Have you ever been confused about the legalities of doing cover songs on YouTube man it's been such a confusing topic with all sorts of misinformation floating around some people think you need to purchase a sync license to be able to do someone else's song well we're going to learn the facts on this episode from someone who knows this is a short excerpt from a longer interview that I did with Peter Hollins he's a musician from Eugene Oregon who has made incredible use of YouTube he currently has one and a half million subscribers to his YouTube channel and he's gained all those followers because he does these incredible acapella recordings and videos of primarily cover songs and he's collaborated with a lot of other popular youtube singers so this is a guy who knows firsthand what the real deal is I think you'll be happy with what he has to say about it a couple of clarifications before we jump into that segment Peter mentions public domain songs just so you know public domain songs are like old sort of folk songs that have been around so long that they're no longer covered by copyright so... See more →

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• "10 Awesome Places to Find Background Music for Video This site lets you search by the type of Creative Commons license you’re willing to work with, or you can filter out only background music in the public domain."
• "Gerry Music offers tracks created by sound engineer and musician Gerry Black, who offers free background music for personal use with Creative Commons attribution."
• "Just make sure you read the Creative Commons license information and that the background music you’re after is approved for commercial use."
• "As the creators of opsound note in their licensing information, you’re free to use the music on their site for any purpose, but commercial users are encouraged to obtain permission from the creator."
• "If the ethics of music production and licensing are important to you, you’ll want to check out the background music licensing site that promises, “We are not evil.” MagnaTune works directly with artists and promises that 50% of the license fee goes directly to the music’s creator."