Epidemic Sound In The News

Epidemic Sound’s royalty-free music is played 2.5bn times per day on YouTube and TikTok, but company still struggles to turn a profit

The company says there are now 26 million videos on YouTube and TikTok featuring its music

This ‘secret’ composer is behind 650 fake artists on Spotify. His music has been streamed 15bn times on the platform (report)

Revealed in a Dagens Nyheter expose: the musician 'behind the world's most listened to network of fake artists on Spotify'

From Rod Stewart’s $100m catalog sale to a takeover bid for Believe… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…

EQT, Denis Ladegaillerie, and TCV launch $1.64 billion takeover bid for Believe

EQT says it expects to be 30 to 35% invested in Believe should takeover bid succeed

Primary Wave could buy a ‘music platform’. Here’s 4 ideas about what it might acquire…

Company teased that it was targeting a music platform last week. Which areas will it be considering?

Universal just launched a claims-free music subscription service for content creators with 50,000 tracks and 200,000 sound effects

The Universal Music for Creators service starts at $5.99 per month

Epidemic Sound unveils ‘Soundmatch’ AI-powered music discovery tool for videos

Soundmatch analyzes the visual frames within a creator's video

Justin Chacona appointed VP of Brand and Marketing at Epidemic Sound

Exec has served as Chief Marketing Officer at Polar Electro since 2020