SnipSell is an online service that lets musicians, producers and anyone else who makes short sounds sell them as ringtones. It distributes tones to Apple’s iTunes Store and to Tuunes, a ringtone store for Android phones. It has been running since 2014.
The service is run by Whitepoint GmbH, a company based in Hamburg, Germany.
How it works
You upload a sound or a short clip, SnipSell checks the format and content, and it is then released to the stores. A tone can be anything: a piece of music, a voice, a sound effect. SnipSell says its agreement is non-exclusive, so artists keep their rights and can sell the same sound elsewhere.
Prices and payouts
SnipSell now offers two paid plans, both with a free UPC and ISRC code, free artwork and the option to cancel at any time.
- Independent: $50 per tone per year, with 80% of the money passed to the artist
- Reseller: $100 per tone per year, with 90% passed to the artist
SnipSell’s own example: in the US a ringtone sells for $1.29, of which $1.00 reaches SnipSell. The artist then receives 80 cents on the Independent plan or 90 cents on the Reseller plan.
The free plan and the $19.99 subscription that SnipSell offered when Made in Shoreditch first wrote about it in 2015 are no longer listed.
The essentials
- Service: SnipSell ringtone distribution
- Stores: iTunes and Tuunes
- Cost: $50 or $100 per tone per year
- Website: snipsell.com