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micro-music at iStock
iStockphoto has announced the launch of a micro-payment stock audio offering. This gives iStock’s 3MM member community a one-stop shopping destination for a wide variety of content types, including imagery, footage, vector art, Flash animations, and audio. Prices for the audio tracks will range form $1 to $25, depending on the complexity of the audio content.
iStockphoto is currently looking for composers, performers, musicians and audio technicians to submit music, spoken word/voice, instrumental, ambient and sound-effect audio track submissions. Commissions to contributors of the audio content will range between 20% and 40%. The company paid more than $20 million in royalties to its contributors in 2007. "Our customers are looking for something that helps them effectively communicate ideas in new and exciting ways," said Bruce Livingstone, founder and CEO of iStock. "By adding audio to the mix, we are now able to offer customers a complete palette of multimedia tools from which they can work."
Sound artist applicants can review a tutorial and take a brief quiz on-line at the company’s web-site. The artists will then be asked to submit three 5-30 second audio tracks for review and approval. Once accepted as artists, contributors may submit tracks that range from five seconds to four minutes in length. All tracks will be individually reviewed for quality and legality before being approved for sale.
According to the company, members of a performing rights organization, (e.g., SOCAN, ASCAP, BMI etc.) anywhere in the world, are not eligible to submit audio content to iStockphoto, as this precludes the content from being royalty-free.
Click here for more information on submitting audio content to iStock.
Web-site: iStockphoto.com
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