DOWNLOAD LEGAL BACKGROUND MUSIC FOR VIDEOS & PRESENTATIONS

Playing music during your presentation can help your audience stay engaged, and also help them to remember the message of your presentation.

But where you can find background music on the Internet for your videos or presentations?

There’s two clear options:

Let’s dive into the ups and downs of each one of them:

Most people, when they see free music, believe that they can use it without any problem, but it’s not always the case. As we will see, YouTube and other social media have algorithms that detect automatically if the music is cleared for your own use or not.

1. Purchase the Licenses to use Royalty-Free Music

This first option is clearly the best one if your goal is adding high-quality music to your Youtube videos, corporate presentations, advertisement or social media, in order to avoid future problems.

Good news is, today there are monthly subscriptions through which you can download all the music that you might need.

There are several pages specialized in the sale of background music licenses, best known of which is Envato Elements, that starts at $16.50/month.

Its advantages are:

In addition, another amazing marketplace from which to download all the music is Epidemic Sound.

It’s the online marketplace used by the most famous Youtube channels nowadays, as it offers a monthly subscription only focused on that social network. They named their service ‘Creator Subscription‘, and starts at 13€ per month for small channels.

2. Download the songs for free under Creative Commons Licenses

This option is well-suited for videos or presentations that are only for strictly personal use.

You will always have to check -on every webpage- under what type of Creative Commons license the music is, by reading its terms of use. Also, you must attribute the author of the song, that is, you will have to compulsorily put in the description of the video or somewhere of the presentation that the music is theirs.

The main benefit, of course, is that you will not have to pay for the music, but then, the inconveniences are many:

That said, the best places to download free background music are:

The importance of music copyrights on the Internet

Why do we have to care about copyrights?

Big websites like Youtube, Facebook or Instagram have algorithms that search and compare automatically the visuals and music for every single one of the videos uploaded.

If they detect that has been a copyright violation, they can mute or block your video, making you waste your time and efforts.

If you want to use the music for a corporate video, imagine how awkward could be presenting a project to your boss or colleagues that suddenly has no sound on it!

Example of video blocked on Youtube

Advantages when using Royalty-Free Music

Envato Elements has a built-in search engine from which you can type a keyword that defines the type of song you’re searching for (rock, groove, cinematic, hip-hop, electronic, jazz…). It will show you then hundreds of results, so you can start listening and choose the one that better suits your needs.

You can have the peace of mind that you’re using 100% legal songs and you will not have subsequent problems with author rights.