There are dozens of stock music libraries competing for your catalog. Most aren't worth your time. A handful are genuinely excellent, depending on where you are in your composing career and what type of music you make.

This guide ranks the best music libraries for stock composers in 2026 — based on...

Most articles about stock music income either wildly oversell it ("make $10,000 a month passively!") or dismiss it entirely ("stock music doesn't pay anything"). The truth, as usual, is more nuanced and more interesting than either extreme.

I've been licensing stock music since 2015. I've published...

AudioJungle is one of the world's largest stock music marketplace. Getting your music on it can mean access to millions of buyers — but the platform has some of the most frustrating submission requirements in the industry. This guide walks you through everything: account setup, the upload process, w...

AudioJungle has one of the most confusing licensing structures in the stock music world. Buyers often aren't sure which license they need, and composers often aren't sure how to explain it. This guide clears it up — whether you're a buyer trying to figure out what to purchase, or a composer trying t...

I wrote my first stock music track in 2015. It was a mediocre chill dub loop, and it sold on AudioJungle for $19. I got about $6.85 of that.

That small, underwhelming transaction changed the trajectory of my music career.

Over the next several years, I built a catalog across multiple platforms, st...

Pond5 is where I made my first real stock music income — and the non-exclusive library where I've earned most of my stock music revenue over the past decade. If you're a composer wondering whether Pond5 is worth your time and how to actually make money on it, this is the guide I wish I'd had when I ...