[Fmpro] FMN JobWire Posting - Pump

[Kirbyko3@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/29/07 11:41:29 PM, musical411 at yahoo.com writes:


> So, what would be the average payment on your Pump
> statement, and what's the low and high figure? $8.00
> was this guy's average, but he might be atypical.
> 

I get a few of those $8 payments, but the average cue falls in the $30-45 
range for me, and I've had the occasional $300/cue payment for stuff like home 
video trailers, things like that.   A cue that gets on Oprah will yield $45 per 
cue. So I make a couple thousand $$ a year through Pump, and then that 
generates a lot of ASCAP revenue. For an agreement like their blanket with MTVN, I 
won't make much -- I'm guessing about $10 per cue (still waiting for that 
statement to come) BUT when your stuff ends up in shows like Room Raiders, Super 
Sweet 16, Laguna Beach, and so on, you end up seeing a ton of performance income 
out of it because MTV plays those shows to death.      So sure, I get bummed 
when I see an $8 cue... but when it lands in a show that's going to get a lot 
of runs, I don't mind so much because 9 months later I'll see it on an ASCAP 
statement. 

One thing I'm a little nervous about, honestly, is what's going to happen 
with Pump now that Getty has bought them.   I'm worried that music will now go 
the way of the microstock photo sites, and that would be baaaaaaaad news.   But 
the Pump folks say that nothing's going to change,   other than that their 
client list is going to expand exponentially.   Time will tell!

Kerry


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