Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Premiumbeat.com Launches Its New Royalty Free Music Library

Premiumbeat.com, a new provider of high quality royalty-free music, announced today that their online service is now in full operation. Premiumbeat.com offers music for new media and traditional productions. All music files are downloadable instantly.

Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) December 14, 2005 -- Web designers, Flash animation agencies, computer games developers, video artists and many others are often looking for good music. They want to find it rapidly and download it to their desktop immediately because they work at the speed of the Internet. Now Premiumbeat.com (http://www.premiumbeat.com) has launched a service that provides what they need.

“I’ve been a Flash developer for 8 years and I’m always on the lookout for music myself,” says Francois Arbour, one of the partner at Premiumbeat.com. “So I decided to not only create a music library that would entirely meet my needs, but to also provide the same service to everyone else doing the same kind of work”.

According to the Computer Industry Almanach, “the worldwide number of Internet broadband subscribers will surpass 215 million in 2005—up from less than 5M in 1999, and 67M in 2002. Worldwide broadband Internet subscribers are forecasted to reach 500M by the end of 2010”. This market has created an explosion of rich media productions. Companies are now demanding music enriched websites, and advertising and e-learning tools to serve a growing clientele. Music is being integrated at every step.

Nobody wants to go through endless pages of music files to find what they want. Premiumbeat.com offers a user-friendly system that makes it an easy proposition. “The feedback from players in the industry has been excellent” says Francois. “People appreciate our advanced search capability. They say they are finding what they need easily and quickly. Visitors also like the relaxed feeling of the website. Our goal was to provide a focused commercial capability in a comfortable, lounge-like environment, and people are telling us that we’ve succeeded”.

Premiumbeat.com, a royalty-free music library, is the property of François Arbour and Gilles Arbour. François Arbour, an award-winning Macromedia certified Flash Developer, has been working in the multi-media industry for the last 8 years. Gilles Arbour has trained thousands of people in sales and marketing during the last 20 years. Both have seen, over and over, that music makes an enormous difference in a presentation, because it moves people to action. For additional information go to: http://www.premiumbeat.com

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

The International Web Design Contest

Congratulations to the Cesart Team for winning the International Web Design contest - section Canada. Francois Arbour, Flash developer and co-owner of Premiumbeat.com is a member of the winning team. They received the first prize ahead of all other Canadian teams. They will be moving on to represent Canada in Limoges, France this coming February 2006.


The Web Design International Festival is a marathon type contest. Participants only learn at 8 AM what is the topic of the website they have to create. They are given 24 hours to develop the concept, create it on the spot, finalize it and present it to the judges. No sleep, lots of teamwork, non-stop programming, the project has to be ready at the 24 hour mark!

Congratulations to the whole team: François Maisonneuve, Pascal Gagnon, François Arbour and Philippe Archontakis.

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Premiumbeat.com is now online!

Premiumbeat.com is now online!

We are very excited about it. We already have a good selection of excellent music and we will keep adding more regularly. This is just the beginning!

We’ve been online for just a few days, we are already getting lots of visitors and the feedback is great!

Here are some excerpts of e-mails we’ve been receiving:

Went to the site, Wow! It looks and sounds great! R. P. Missouri USA

Congratulations! A great site, clean, nice look, excellent design, ergonomic, simple, a good choice of music, professional, etc. R. L. Quebec Canada

What a beautiful site! Congratulations... I will be sampling tonight! Thanks for letting us know about this. V. B. Oregon USA

A very good resource. A sharp design, with a warm lounge feeling. I like it! P. M. Montreal Canada

A huge thank you to Martin Laliberté for creating the design of the website

Gilles Arbour
Francois Arbour

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Royalty Free Music?

www.premiumbeat.com will be online this coming week-end. François and I are very excited about it. Several people have asked us what exactly is Royalty Free Music and what do people use it for?

So here is the answer directly from our FAQ page…

What is royalty-free music?

Music purchased from Premiumbeat.com’s music library is royalty free. This means that after paying a one-time fee for a user license, you can then use the music you’ve purchased as many times as you wish for as long as you like in accordance with the terms stated in the license agreement. You never have to pay any additional royalty fees based on usage.

How am I allowed to use the music I purchase from Premiumbeat.com?

With your purchase from Premiumbeat.com, you get a permanent, non-exclusive license to utilize the music in applications such as Flash animations, website background music, Podcasts, online tutorials, e-learning tools, slide shows, corporate training videos, Power-point presentations, multimedia CD-rom, promotional DVDs, software demos, video blogs, web-based online video games, etc. You are also welcome to use it for television, radio broadcasting and commercial movies provided you obtain an expanded license required for this type of commercial use.

Does the music I buy belong to me?

No. You do not actually buy the music itself. The copyright to the music remains the property of the composer. What you do own is a license allowing you to use the music for your projects and purposes in accordance with the license agreement.
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So, there you go. It’s royalty free but not copyright free. So the license user cannot copy the music and resell it as his own work unless it is embedded as part of a finished end product.

Purchasing a license from us is the least expensive way to include quality professional music in any projects.

If you do have more questions, please feel free to contact us.

Friday, September 23, 2005

A Blog for Premiumbeat.com

This is the first entry for our blog. And we're not even online yet.
Several people have seen the beta version of Premiumbeat.com.
The feedback is excellent: warm, ergonomic, great music, etc. We can't wait to show it to the world!

Just a few bugs to iron out and here we comes (insert drums and trumpet here please - royalty free of course...)

--- Royalty Free Music - www.premiumbeat.com