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Choosing an online aggregator I: Overview of royalty structures

Choosing an online aggregator I: Overview of royalty structures

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Choosing an online aggregator I: Overview of royalty structures

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- [Voiceover] Once you've got your masters all set, it's time to start thinking about distribution. A great way to get your music online is through an online aggregator. Okay, there are many of these, CD Baby, TuneCore, Symphonic Distribution. There are more and more each day and what's important is that you do a little research to figure out which one is best for your situation. The first thing I want to talk about is pricing. So this is Symphonic Distribution's page. I'm a fan of theirs, I've used them and I've used TuneCore as well and they start out with pricing by asking if you're an artist or a record label. So let's take a look at artist just to start out with and they have these pricing models that basically are set up based on how many tracks you're going to upload or you project to upload. So for example, if you're an artist and you're cranking them out, maybe you want to set something up so that you're paying a little bit more at the beginning, like 39.99 for 20 plus tracks…

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