Decent song selection, Everything else: HORRIFIC
Decent song selection. Horrific website and disastrous claim release system. The website is terrible. It is counter-intuitive and feels like browsing Alta Visa in 2001. When you search for a song you need, it doesn't come up even when you search for song title and artist. You can either search for artist or song. So you if the song is called "yesterday" you have to figure out which of the 19 different yesterday songs it is, or you can search for the artist "bcalm" in which case you have to go manually find the song, which can be tedious if the artist has many songs. The whole licensing procedure that you must do on every single song, every single time you need it, is beyond a waste of time. The fact that they haven't been able to make the process fast and efficient tells me a lot about their attention to detail - or lack of it. By far the worst part is that on every second video on average, claims are not released, so unless I am uploading a video on a Tuesday within working hours, I have to dispute the claim immediately, as I otherwise will lose ad revenue until the claim has been released. How do I get the claim released? I have to send an EMAIL and explain all sorts of things, screenshots, url, claimant, yadda yadda yadda. And even on weekdays you aren't necessarily getting a response or the claim cleared, so even though the dispute will - generally - eventually be released, the ad revenue from the video will be stuck in an escrow for at least a month - usually up to two months. This has been a problem for so long that I can only see this is as some kind of added revenue income for them. I don't like making a dispute, but I also don't like giving away my money to Musicbed which is already charging a lot. And the fact that you have to be signed up for a yearly membership is also just ridiculous. So yeah, decent song selection hence the two stars, but getting to the point where it's just not worth the hassle any longer.