Who uses Royalty Free Music these days and for what purpose?
“The vast majority of people who buy Royalty Free Music are small-time media producers. Videographers who create corporate videos, students making student films, website designers. Even wedding photographers who produce photo slide-show DVD’s for the bride and groom after the wedding. Things like that. We do also have some big name customers, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. Generally, it’s small companies who produce media, advertising, shareware video games, Flash games, things like that.” Are TV and film producers turning to RFM as opposed to bespoke or commissioned compositions? “Generally, no. Certainly not the ‘big’ production companies who produce programmes for the BBC and so on. They still use bespoke music, I guess they see it as a bit ‘beneath them’ to use stock music. They will of course in most cases get a better result by hiring a composer for bespoke music. And that’s fine. I don’t want to change that. I have no real wish to have our royalty-free music
