How charities can add YouTube’s free music to their videos
Howard Lake | 6 September 2014 | Blogs
YouTube’s Nonprofit channel has shared details of how charities can add music to accompany their videos at no charge.
Commissioning music or paying the necessary licence fee is usually an expense too far for most organisations that are keen simply to get the message out. But a soundtrack can lift the quality and impact of almost any video.
Fortunately, YouTube’s Audio Library lets you download and hundreds of free music and sound tracks to edit into your video. To be precise, these free tracks are available to any YouTube user, not just charities. YouTube’s latest video for charities is simply reminding charities that they are available, presumably because they can see these are under-used tools.
Tracks are categorised, so charities can choose from genres such as
- Pop | Happy
- Rock | Angry
- Cinematic | Happy
- R&B and Soul | Romantic
- Reggae | Happy
In addition you can look for tracks by length and instrument.
Using the free Creator Studio function in your YouTube account, download your selected track, and then add it to your video in your video editing software of choice, which includes YouTube itself of course.
How to use YouTube’s free Audio Library for free music
[youtube height=”450″ width=”800″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_GVvi7d0WM[/youtube]
Has your charity used YouTube’s free audio library music in your videos? How easy was the process?
Or do you pay to use music? How much does that cost you, even at charity rates? Tell us in the comments below.
YouTube’s Nonprofits Programme
Just in case you haven’t heard of its benefits, find out more about the YouTube Nonprofits Program (or YouTube Charities Programme). And subscribe to the YouTube Nonprofits channel on YouTube.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.