Like to make music? Turn your tunes into an income stream
Digital music and audio | The Guardian 2017-06-22
Summary:
Meet the stock music composers who can make up to £30,000 a year by writing and selling the soundtracks to our digital lives
Most people know you can earn money from posting videos and images on the likes of YouTube and Instagram. But few are probably aware that there is a hidden army of “gig economy” entrepreneurs who are earning a bit of extra cash – or in some cases as much as £30,000 a year – by composing the music that soundtracks our lives in the digital age.
They specialise in creating music that can be licensed for use in everything from YouTube videos, computer games and movie trailers to TV adverts, corporate promotional videos and PowerPoint slideshows. It’s known in the trade as “stock music”, but is also known as library music, production music and royalty-free music.
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