Thanks. For a while I was trying to sell music for commercials on some online services. Hit License and Broadjam would list companies needing specific genres of music, then charge people $5 per song to submit tunes. I tried to write a 60-second jingle every week. I'd pick out an ad I felt I could write to, then force myself to get it done before a personal deadline. I did it for a couple years, only sold one commercial.
Wait... You only got paid if you sold a jingle and you paid $5 to submit the jingle in the first place?
Yeah. Pay to submit to allegedly get my tune heard. Some real jewy shit. Hit License went under, but Broadjam.com is still up and running. And the grandfather of the pay-to-license sites, Taxi.com, is still in business.
I've never heard of any of those sites. You said you sold one. Did you at least make your money back?
And... No... No, I'm not gonna pay someone to potentially listen to my music. In fact, it works the other way. You pay me if you want to listen to my music. That's how it works.
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