As December comes to a close business usually slows down as people go on vacation or generally take a break from work. I know from our websites and from what our composers tell me that the last 1/2 of December is a bit of slow across the board.
This December however we have done very well with our royalty free Christmas music sales. I am sure other royalty free sites have a spike in their Christmas genre sales as well.
Below is a review of some of the sites and prices where you can purchase and download royalty free Christmas music, starting with ours.

Christmas Classics
This is a new collection for us and it sold really well this year. It is a large collection of Christmas music for producers who need more than just one holiday tune. The collection includes 24 tracks some with edits and loops. It comes with a variety of genres including hip hop, techno, traditional and classical.

Royalty Free Christmas Music
This is our standard collection of Christmas music at an affordable price of $29.95

If you only need one or two Christmas tracks our musicloops.com site has a wide variety from many different composers: Christmas and Holiday Music
Prices range from $14.95 to $39.95, edits and loops are available.

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This is basically just a plug for my friend’s website at
Nature Library Stock Footage.
You can download free video footage and check out the large library of beautiful nature footage including incredible time lapse shots.

I am a fairly heavy user of royalty free image sites with all the creating of product labels, websites, newsletters and mailings. For a very long time I used the subscription service www.clipart.com. They were a bit pricey and didn’t really have the variety I needed for our big publishing pushes. The other major royalty free image sites I looked at were way too expensive or had complex licensing agreements.
I somehow stumbled onto www.Dreamstime.com and gave them a go. I have been using them ever since and am very happy with the cost, the licensing, the quality and variety of images and the usability of the website (it takes a bit of getting used to but it’s great once you figure it out).
I also like that they have the same ethics as we do at www.partnersinrhyme.com, their catalog comes from photographers from all over the world and the profits are shared.
The clipart.com site is a Jupiter Images entity, more of a Big Brother / Microsoft type set up. I’d rather give my money to the struggling artist than the big corp.

UTEMS is currently one of my favorite sites for free royalty free sound effects

The list isn’t very organized and the names aren’t always informative but that’s half the fun of it, everything is a surprise.

I’d say these sounds are good for mixing into your music rather than for use in professional situations where higher quality is needed.

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Hi, my name is Mark and I own a few popular royalty free content websites.

We have been helping musicians distribute their music for over 10 years now and I would like to use this forum to share some thoughts and experiences and hopefully spark some discussion in regards to the distribution of royalty free music and royalty free content in general.

The main focus of this blog will be royalty free music but will also include images, video, and sound effects.

We will also be archiving all of our free royalty free content downloads here for easy access from one source.