Audiojungle has a lot more potential.

I think, AJ staff already have a significant influence on sales and top charts, because they are choosing featured files, featured authors, files for collections and have other possibilities for advertising some authors on AJ..

I’m sure AJ is trying the best they can. It’s the nature of the bell curve theory. We can’t all be on top…

plastic3 said
I think, AJ staff already have a significant influence on sales and top charts, because they are choosing featured files, featured authors, files for collections and have other possibilities for advertising some authors on AJ..

+100))

A lot of great points here. To be honest, I’m pretty tired of reading the ‘only one genre sells on Audiojungle’ threads, which comes up quite frequently.

Everyone here talks about Corporate / Motivational being the holy grail, but if we had the same quality across the board in all the other genres here (which we don’t) – you’d get more visitors to the marketplace doing a wider variety of projects.

I’ve said time and time again that it’s perfectly possible to be successful here without having any tracks in the ‘Top Sellers’, or without filling up your portfolio with substandard corporate / motivational tracks.

So many people are trying to copy what’s already been done, and when you do that, most of the time you just sound like a worse version of Tim or Soundroll. Why would the buyers go to some new guy when they already KNOW they can get a quality corporate sound from those guys for the same price.

Find your own voice and if it’s good, the people will come.

To answer the original post though, I do like the idea of having different ‘Top 20’ pages for each category. Audiojungle’s marketplace is seemingly geared (intentionally or unintentionally!) towards corporate / motivational tracks. If we’re to expand the marketplace into what it should be, it will need commitment from both Audiojungle web developers, AND authors.

And, because I love to bring it up in every thread – the quality bar could/should be set much much higher. The technical standards of some things that get put onto the marketplace (mixing, arrangement, etc…) is really poor in some cases. I always hear the argument that what is ‘good’ is subjective, but not when it comes to production quality and technical ability. I constantly yearn for the day when that standard is raised.

soundroll said

christa394 said
Have a Corporate top 100, a Cinematic top 100, a Horror top 100 etc, etc….us Music Supervisors could really use that.

Don’t you have it right now by browsing these categories and sorting them?

The answer to this is no.

What I’m saying would be useful is a top 100 for each genre for “authors”. Not songs.

The top 100 list of composers for Action/Adventure, the top 100 list of composers for Corporate, the top 100 list of composers for Romantic, the top 100 list of composers for Horror, etc. etc.

AJ could choose the top authors by quality. Or if that’s to subjective as some of you mentioned, you could stick with number of sales of certain genres to determine the top 100. For instance if such and such composer sold 200 horror tracks, and no one has sold more than him. Then he is number 1 on the horror list. Do you know how much this would change that composers life? If I was looking for a horror track and know I like that composers stuff I would save so much time!

No need to be threatened by this Soundroll you have great stuff. Customers won’t buy other composers music IN PLACE of yours. Customers will be buying yours AND other composers. AJ sales will increase substantially. And customers will find quality music they didn’t even know was here.

On a side note…I’d rather this thread not be turned into a corporate/motivational bashing session, as that is not the point. Corporate/motivational has its place as do all music. Read the initial post.

If you all +1 this thread or “agree” I think you might get the attention of AJ decision makers

Just a thought…

Sinar said
I think there is a simple version of justice that no one has to see who has how many sales, no one should see the Top because it is not needed (in a form which is now) .. Remember the heated debate of uploads music on the site…. removed the counter and discussion stopped … Buyers can find the music very well with the existing search …

Just a thought…

While I see where your coming from, I don’t agree with this because libraries need to showcase their best stuff to potential customers and music supervisors.

And right now AJ is showcase casing their best stuff as corporate music, hereby defining themselves as a corporate library. Again corporate has its place and this is not a bashing of corporate music. This is about highlight and showcase talent in ALL genres.

The “Featured Author” feature is great, but not enough.

Audiojungle could be THE go to library for music supervisors of all tiers if AJ implemented a system of top authors per genre.

I’m friends with a lot of other music supervisors who work for big name networks, and when I mentioned I got a couple of tracks this year from Audiojungle they were totally surprised.

christa394 said
No need to be threatened by this Soundroll

Huh? I must say that something seems a bit off here.

Let’s see:
- a music supervisor claiming great love for AJ yet doesn’t have a badge showing a single purchase of an item.
- strange animosity pointed toward soundroll and Tim McMorris.
- a pressing and passionate desire to change the way authors are presented.

Does this just seem odd to anyone else? Just sayin…

And I 100 % agree with you Garth.

christa394 said

Sinar said
I think there is a simple version of justice that no one has to see who has how many sales, no one should see the Top because it is not needed (in a form which is now) .. Remember the heated debate of uploads music on the site…. removed the counter and discussion stopped … Buyers can find the music very well with the existing search …

Just a thought…

While I see where your coming from, I don’t agree with this because libraries need to showcase their best stuff to potential customers and music supervisors.

And right now AJ is showcase casing their best stuff as corporate music, hereby defining themselves as a corporate library. Again corporate has its place and this is not a bashing of corporate music. This is about highlight and showcase talent in ALL genres.

The “Featured Author” feature is great, but not enough.

Audiojungle could be THE go to library for music supervisors of all tiers if AJ implemented a system of top authors per genre.

I’m friends with a lot of other music supervisors who work for big name networks, and when I mentioned I got a couple of track this year from Audiojungle they were totally surprised.

The buyer himself can define search on how many sales … is the same, just will not focus on the top and all, but the essence remains the same ..