Epidemic Sound - Bring your stories to life. Just add sound.

What is Epidemic Sound?

Epidemic Sound provides a comprehensive library of high-quality music and sound effects for content creators. The platform features a vast catalog, with tracks heard and seen over 2.5 billion times per day. All necessary rights are included with every track, simplifying the licensing process.

Epidemic sound offers innovative tools such as Soundmatch, which suggests tracks based on video content, and Epidemic Audio Reference (EAR), which allows users to find similar-sounding tracks using their favorite musical elements.

Features

Soundmatch: Get track suggestions based on frames within your content.
Epidemic Audio Reference: Search for tracks with a similar tone and sound, using your favorite riff, hook, drop, or bridge.
Exclusive tracks: Music by global artists, producers, and composers.
Largest Catalog: Access the largest music and sound effects catalog of its kind
All rights included: Publish worry-free, worldwide.

Use Cases

Soundtracking videos for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, and TikTok
Enhancing podcasts with music and sound effects
Creating background music for websites
Adding sound to advertising campaigns
Sound design for games
Use in documentaries
Soundtrack Streaming videos
Adding background music for in-store

FAQs

Is your music royalty-free?

Yes! The music and sound effects on Epidemic Sound are royalty-free, meaning you can use them in your content without having to pay royalties to artists or rights holders when the music is played. In fact, we set ourselves apart with an innovative license model that is even better than royalty-free. We own all rights to our music and can offer users a direct license with all rights included, globally.
What happens after I cancel?

Any content you publish while your subscription is active will be cleared forever! When you cancel your subscription, you'll still have access to use the Epidemic Sound library until the end of your current subscription period. After that, any new content published will not be cleared. Resubscribe at any time to access all our music and start publishing again.
Can I use it for free?

While it's free to listen to our music, downloading and using Epidemic Sound's music requires an active subscription or a single track license. We do not provide music or sound effects for free. You will always need to purchase a subscription or a license in order to publish content using Epidemic Sound music. You can check out our pricing here!
What are my licensing options and how am I covered?

Epidemic Sound offers different subscriptions to suit your content needs. Whether you're creating content for yourself, your business or your clients, an Epidemic Sound subscription will allow you to use unlimited music and sound effects anywhere online, including on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, TikTok, podcasts, websites and more, in accordance with the terms and conditions applicable to the subscription of your choice. You can publish and monetize your content with our music worry-free. If you're a major publisher and need to soundtrack TV, cinema, streaming video on demand, live events or more we offer customized plans. Read more about our licensing options here and see our terms and conditions here.
How will you keep me safe from copyright issues?

We set ourselves apart with a license model that goes beyond the standard. Because we own all the rights to our music we can offer users a direct license with all rights included, globally. This means with an Epidemic Sound subscription you can publish and monetize your content with our music worry-free. Simply connect your social media channels to your Epidemic Sound account. All content published during an active subscription will stay cleared forever.