Epidemic Sound Review

Why use a music provider?

The answer is simple, music has the power to elevate the quality and the engagement of your videos and give you all the creative freedom.

There have been many discussions about the best royalty free music subscription in the market, and so today we’re going to review one of the top players: Epidemic Sound.

The company was founded almost 10 years ago and it’s specialized on providing creators with high-quality royalty free music.

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In order to make the most of music in your videos, you should find a partner that can provide you with a wide variety of music, have consistently high production quality and, maybe most importantly, provide tools that make it easy to work with.

And of course, you need to be able to trust them to cover your licensing needs. The only thing worse than finding the right track is finding the right track and then getting a copyright strike on it.

Remember that, on Youtube, three strikes in the same 90 day period will result in your channel being permanently removed.

Music Search Features

Their search system is just plain amazing, very easy to use. They’ve classified their songs on Genres, Moods, Movement, and Places, as you can see here:

Each Genre is further divided into Sub-genres.

In terms of discovering new music and the search tools that they have, there are few companies that are that strong. Once I understood Epidemic Sound player, they had two features that really set them apart:

Finally, when it comes to music licensing, it’s always important to find a company that produces in close cooperation with the musicians. When buying finished tracks, there is always a chance that someone that has been involved in the production is part of a P.R.O (collecting societies of royalties).

If that happens, then the music library does not actually own all the rights to the music. This could definitely lead to some issues for you.

As far as I know, Epidemic has a dedicated producer with every musician that helps them through the production process, so they have the best rights coverage of all providers out there.

What are their options and prices?

The individual ‘Creator Subscription‘ is the best option for any YouTube Channel and social media creator, with more than 30,000 tracks and 60,000 sound effects.

Some of the top features are:

Its price will depend on the number of reproductions your Youtube channel has:

They have also recently launched a new ‘Commercial Subscription‘, covering the needs of small and medium-size businesses that want to increase their social media presence and invest in video production:

And the price for this subscription goes up to $49/month.

So, summing up, these are the strong and weak points of Epidemic:

Pros

Cons

Conclusion and rating

Nowadays for any video content creator, Youtuber or any business that wants to have a strong media presence, it is essential to have an easy-to-use and high-quality service to get the proper background music.

Long gone are the days where you had to spend hours searching for the right song without even knowing if the license was adequate for your project!

There are now many providers out there with high-quality music: Epidemic Sound and Artlist come to mind as the best. However, personally, I prefer Epidemic’s music library, because it’s huge and it’s growing fast. They make easy to find new music all the time and their efforst are directed to make sure your content sounds truly unique.

Given what they provide, our rating for them is 4.6 stars out of 5!

I’ll leave you here with a nice in-depth review of the service by musician Sam Miller:

And then another one from Sean Ogle, to finish here this article: