They say of them that they areSweden’s best kept secret”. They are producers, visionaries and administrators of a space in the music industry that calls into question the role of copyright collective management entities. They are Epidemic Sound, a quality music librarycreated to be used in audiovisual productions, with all rights included.
Epidemic Sound, royalty free music
Royalty-free and licensed songs. These are the works that Epidemic Sound collects and provides to its clients, tracks composed expressly for it by prestigious musicians who receive a single payment for their creations in return.
A single transaction is enough for the authors to assign, forever, all the exploitation rights of their works. Epidemic Sound pays in advance. Buy the recording and composition for online and audiovisual creators to freely choose the music they like the most. They can select it and use it as many times as they want on all available platforms.
Epidemic Sound leads a disruptive business model in the field of music licensing that dispenses with the role of collective rights management companies: neither the works nor the authors with whom he works are registered in any of these entities.
Custom soundtracks for youtubers and online creators
In less than a decade Epidemic Sound has transformed into a new generation company in the music industry. It was born in 2009 as a library of production music and today boasts of managing the world’s largest catalog of music detached from collective collection societies.
Dispose of more than 30,000 tracks of various genres ready to download, share and use on YouTube, corporate videos, advertising and radio. About 90% of the pieces are instrumental, the remaining 10% (and counting) are vocal songs that have their own instrumental version.
Every month it incorporates, on average, 300 new tracks created by composers and producers from various nations, and selected (curated) by expert professionals, with knowledge and information about the sector.
Flat rate subscription: this is how Epidemic Sound works
To download and use music from Epidemic Sound it is necessary to register and verify the user account. It can be done directly or through a partner that has an agreement with the Swedish firm.
With this access, creators can organize their own playlists, download and test multiple tracks in their project before purchasing a license. To definitively use them in their productions, they will have to pay a Flat monthly or annual license fee that includes all rights.
Epidemic Sound distinguishes two types of subscriptions:
- For production professionals: standard, advertising or custom, from 99 euros per month.
- For : , professional or epic, with a monthly fee from 13 euros. They get unlimited music for their personal channel, which must be hosted on YouTube and have an active subscription at the time the videos are posted. Beyond the subscription contract, the works will always be available and monetized.
Epidemic Sound have all your tracks recorded in to protect your customers and products. In practice, this gesture helps to avoid false copyright claims by third parties, for using music in the video channel.
All that remains is the very intuitive search for songs: by genre, by album, by entering a filter directly in the search bar or by taking advantage of the button ‘similar’ to find the perfect soundtrack, one very similar to that one that almost convinces you. Tracks, sound effects and stingsshorter segments for an introduction or ending sequence.
Easy access, unlimited, quality and royalty free. It is the great asset of Epidemic Sound, a Scandinavian company that has revolutionized copyright management with a management model opposed to collective collection
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