Sync & licensing
Royalty-free and sync licensing: the channel that pays producers when their music lands in someone else’s video. A creator subscription duopoly sits alongside per-track marketplaces for film and media.
- APM Music — Experienced composers who control 100% of their masters and publishing and can deliver broadcast-ready production music.
- Artlist — Subscription creator-sync income if your catalog fits YouTube aesthetics. Production-music composers willing to create a separate, unreleased catalog for broad licensing and negotiate a work-for-hire or rights-assignment agreement.
- Audiio — Artists with polished, emotionally clear music that works under visual content and has straightforward ownership.
- Audio Network — Writers who can deliver broadcast-quality themed music on brief. Experienced composers, producers and artists with broadcast-ready music who are comfortable writing specifically for production use and granting extensive control over selected tracks.
- AudioJungle — Production-music composers who can build a searchable catalog and compete on volume, metadata and commercial usability.
- Audiosocket — Artists with distinctive, one-stop music who accept exclusive representation of submitted tracks.
- Bank Robber Music — Distinctive indie catalogs seeking hands-on sync representation. Established indie artists and labels with distinctive, authentically released music, clean ownership information and a professional catalog ready for licensing.
- Crucial Music — Independent artists with fully cleared songs, strong metadata and music that can be licensed quickly without third-party approvals.
- DISCO — Professional watermarked pitching once you pitch sync regularly. Artists, composers and managers who actively pitch music to supervisors, agencies, publishers or labels and need a professional system for organizing and delivering files.
- Epidemic Sound — Steady creator-sync income for instrumental-friendly production writers. Professional producers and composers who are not affiliated with a collecting society and are comfortable exchanging permanent track ownership for guaranteed payment, recurring bonuses and large-scale exposure.
- Extreme Music — Established composers and producers with elite production quality, specialized catalog skills and relevant professional relationships.
- Jamendo — Independent artists comfortable with broad discovery and standardized commercial licensing.
- Lickd — Passive creator-sync income on top of normal releases. Artists whose label or distributor already delivers music to Lickd and who want additional revenue from creators licensing tracks for YouTube and branded social content.
- Marmoset — Hands-on sync representation for distinctive indie catalogs. Distinctive independent artists with professional, fully cleared recordings, accurate metadata and instrumental versions who want hands-on sync representation and access to premium brand, film and TV opportunities.
- Megatrax — Professional production composers with complete deliverables, strong metadata and music tailored to broadcast use.
- Music Gateway — Pitching real sync briefs weekly as a discipline. Independent artists with fully cleared, sync-ready music who want frequent opportunities alongside distribution and promotional tools in one account.
- Music Vine — Curated filmmaker licensing with artist-fair splits. Experienced composers and independent artists with polished, sync-friendly catalogs, complete ownership documentation and alternate mixes or stems.
- Musicbed — Premium filmmaker sync if your production quality is high. Established independent artists and composers with distinctive, cinematic, fully released music and a polished catalog of cleared tracks and alternate versions.
- Pond5 — Non-exclusive passive sync listings with zero gatekeeping. Production-music composers with large catalogs who can consistently create searchable, commercial tracks, alternate versions and short edits.
- Position Music — Big, cinematic, trailer-shaped records seeking a sync publisher. Established artists, songwriters and composers with commercially proven music, industry relationships and premium pop, alternative, hip-hop or cinematic material.
- PremiumBeat — Composers producing polished, versatile instrumental tracks with clear structure and strong commercial licensing potential.
- Sentric — Collecting publishing royalties before you can justify Songtrust's fee. Independent songwriters who want publishing administration without an upfront fee or lengthy commitment, particularly those generating royalties internationally or from live performances.
- Songtradr — Non-exclusive sync marketplace access with real B2B reach. Existing Songtradr users invited into the new licensing program or migrating an established distribution catalog to MassiveMusic for Rightsholders.
- Taxi — Screened sync and A&R pitches with written feedback. Prolific sync composers and songwriters who can produce broadcast-ready music quickly, follow detailed briefs and use repeated feedback to improve.
- Terrorbird Media — A first real PR partner covering press, radio and sync together. Indie, alternative, electronic, experimental, punk, and other distinctive artists with finished music who want specialized press, radio, digital, sync, or publishing support.