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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Music |
Founded | June 18, 2009 |
Founders | Peer Åström David Stenmarck Oscar Höglund Jan Zachrisson Hjalmar Winbladh |
Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden |
Revenue | 78,496,922 Euro (2021)
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Number of employees | 439 (2021)
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Parent | EQT Partners (2017) |
Website |
epidemicsound |
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Epidemic Sound is a global royalty-free soundtrack providing company based in Stockholm, Sweden. [2]
The company was established in 2009 by Peer Åström, David Stenmarck, Oscar Höglund, Hjalmar Winbladh and Jan Zachrisson. [3] [4]
It has a library of over 40,000 soundtrack music and 90,000 sound effects. All Epidemic Sound tracks come in stems, which lets users remove certain layers of a track, like drums, bass, or the melody. Epidemic Sound music is also played in public spaces like restaurants, hotels, shopping malls and car parks. [2] [5] Epidemic Sound’s tracks are produced by a roster of music creators who get paid upfront for each track and half of the track’s streaming revenue. [6]
Epidemic Sound has partnered with many different major brands, including Adobe, Getty Images, iStock, Pinterest, and Canva. The company has raised a total of over $500M in funding over 5 rounds. Their latest equity round raised $450M from Blackstone Group and EQT Growth, which values Epidemic Sound at $1.4 billion. [7] Both SVT and TV4 buy music from Epidemic Sound. [8] [9]