Audiosocket licenses music from independent artists and composers for use in advertising, film, television, and digital content, building a catalog now past 80,000 songs and 24,000 sound effects across 250+ genres. Founded in Seattle in 2009 by Jenn Anderson-Miller and Brent McCrossen (with roots reaching back to 2008), the company built its catalog around signed independent musicians rather than stock production-music composers, and counts Netflix, HBO, Disney, and Amazon among its clients.
Search runs on filters for genre, mood, BPM, vocals, and instrumentation, plus a find-similar tool that takes a pasted YouTube or Spotify link and returns matching tracks in the catalog. Beyond the self-service subscription library, Audiosocket runs ASX, a sync licensing agency for high-budget placements, and a Music-as-a-Service (MaaS) API that embeds licensed tracks directly into products like Canva, CapCut, and TikTok.
Video creators, agencies, and freelancers handling client work are the core subscription audience, while game studios, app developers, and platforms needing embedded music integrate through the MaaS API instead. Personal plans start at $15/month for music-only or $25/month with sound effects included; Commercial plans (for client-facing business use) run $33.25-$45.75/month billed annually; there is no free tier, though a seven-day trial lets a subscriber test the catalog before paying.
