Official Release: YOULICENSE OFFERS BRANDED ONLINE MUSIC LICENSING MARKETPLACES FOR LABELS, PUBLISHERS & DIGITAL AGGREGATORS

- Music companies can add a branded licensing platform to their websites -
- NO commissions with this non-exclusive subscription based turn-key service -

New York, NY, January 6th 2009, YouLicense.com, the global online music licensing platform, announced today a new …

Sell MP3s on YouLicense.com

Good News! Pay 0% Commision on Licensing Deals

We're happy to say that we have now launched our Premium Services packages.

We are giving indie artists and labels the chance to pay 0% commission on licensing deals made on YouLicense.com.

YouLicense.com is and will always be free to join. Any user signing up will …

SellaBand Artists Now on YouLicense.com !

1000 tracks to be licensed this week !

We would like to take a minute to tell you about a great opportunity on YouLicense.com!

In the coming week, TheCellFreak.com, a young and fun site for free mobile content wants to license 1000 songs from YouLicense members. Paying $25 per song and giving artists the …

Revolver Records Join YouLicense!

We've got some exciting additions to YouLicense this week and we're proud to announce that Revolver Records has joined the YouLicense community!

Revolver Records was created by Paul Birch in 1979 . Its sister labels are FM Records and Heavy Metal Records. Revolver is …

TechCrunch Article - YouLicense Gets $1 Million For Online Music Licensing

Once again, we are honored to be mentioned on TechCrunch, the world's leading technology blog.

Here is the Article:

Over a year since launching its music licensing marketplace into beta, Israeli startup YouLicense has raised $1 million in funding from the Logia Group and …

YouLicense Mood Application on Facebook & Bebo

What mood are you in?
YouLicense has just launched a cool and clever little application for Facebook & Bebo.

This is a great way to explore the music that YouLicense has to offer.
Whether you're happy, sad, cool, angry or mysterious, this application is sure to find the …

Bodog Music joins YouLicense!

We are proud to announce that Bodog Music, an independent international record label and the architect behind the worldwide $1 million Bodog Battle of the Bands contests, has joined YouLicense and uploaded some great music for licensing!

The label features a diverse and …

Rock Brand 2.0: What Advertisers Really Want

If music is the soundtrack to our lives, then advertisers want a piece of the experience. But how can artists forge powerful and profitable relationships with brands? At South by Southwest on Thursday, entrepreneurs started sharing notes on the elusive branding …

YouLicense Seeks Music Submissions for Film Placements

YouLicense.com, the Online Music Licensing Marketplace, is offering many great licensing opportunities to artists worldwide and invites all to submit their music free of charge to be considered for various film placement opportunities.

Recently added opportunities by UK …

The NPD Group: Consumers Acquired More Music In 2007, But Spent Less

According to The NPD Group, a leading provider of consumer and retail information, the amount of music that consumers acquired in the U.S. increased by 6 percent in 2007. A sharp increase in legal digital download revenues could not offset declines in CD sales, which …

MIDEM Video: Fans Business Panel

MIDEM, the world's leading music conference, just ended in Cannes France. YouLicense had a great time and met many interesting companies and individuals. We also had the pleasure of attending several highly interesting music panels. The MIDEM team were nice enough to …

New Study: Blogs More Than MySpace Sell Music

A new study by New York University's Stern Business School tracked blog chatter for 108 albums for four weeks before and after their release dates.

The study showed that the volume of blog posts led to future sales, but that large increases in an artist's Myspace …

The End of Music: When Did Music Become A Penalty?

If you you're not aware of the changes happening in the music industry you're probably living in a cave, or you forgot to pay the internet bill. It seems like every time I read about music there is a mention of revenue loss. 2007 is finally over and the analysts are on …

Where Music Socialism Fails

Birdman Sued For Copyright Infringement

Hollywood 2.0: Why the TV Industry Might lose 28% of its Audience Forever

It's no big secret that the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike is bound to change the future of television, as we know it. Will it boost internet TV? Will our favorite TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, Lost, 24 ever come back? Will the strike ever end? Will there be any …

Introduction to Music Licensing

What is music licensing?
Music licensing is the process by which songwriters, in theory, get paid for their work. In much the same way you don't own that copy of Doom or Windows (or Linux), a purchaser of recorded music does not own the music, they own the media that …

What is Copyright?

Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U. S. Code) to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to …