Audiosocket’s Music As A Service Allows Startups To Offer Licensed Music To Users

Leena Rao

Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
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Audiosocket, an indie music licensing and technology company, is launching a new platform today called Music as a Service (MaaS), which gives developers a way to offer users the ability to license music for applications.

So content producers will be able to search, discover and license music from Audiosocket’s catalog of over 33,000 songs from more than 1,900 artists and composers around the world. MaaS can be integrated into third party photo and video sharing services, ad agencies and more. Partners pay nothing up-front to integrate MaaS, and content creators take on the licensing charges.

The virtue of using the platform is that content creators don’t have to worry about the hassle of licensing the music they want to use, because Audiosocket takes care of this. MaaS provides worldwide music licensing with automated licensing generation and payment processing, simplifying what has been a notoriously challenging process for content creators, and creating new revenue streams for artists and partners.

For example, slideshow creation tool Animoto is an Audiosocket client, and Audiosocket says this integration helped shape the vision for the MaaS platform.

Audiosocket faces competition from Pump Audio and Jingle Punks.

Company: Audiosocket
Website: audiosocket.com
Launch Date: May 2008
Funding: $1.25M

Audiosocket is a forward thinking music, media and technology company that delivers the best music talent to the marketplace. We are a next-generation content provider that is providing a new service to the music industry that is helping to shape the monetization and artist trending strategies of the future. Innovators of MaaSâ„¢ (Music as a Service), the company is curating and delivering the best indie music to content creators worldwide for hassle free licensing to digital and traditional media...

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