Epidemic Sound Offers Free Music Licenses to Healthcare and Non-Profit Organizations Tackling Coronavirus

• Epidemic Sound is offering free music licenses to healthcare and non-profit organizations tackling the coronavirus pandemic
• These organizations can use the music in videos supporting fundraising and relief efforts, not-for-profit educational content and public service announcements
• The Swedish music platform is encouraging all healthcare and non-profit organizations in need of music to reach out to hello@epidemicsound.com to find out more and get set up

Stockholm, Sweden – Epidemic Sound, recently named as one of the Top Swedish startups to follow in 2020 by Sifted (backed by the Financial Times), is offering free music licenses to healthcare and non-profit organizations tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

The free music licenses will enable these organizations to access Epidemic Sound’s library of 30,000 tracks and use them in videos supporting fundraising and relief efforts, not-for-profit educational content and public service announcements.

The Swedish music platform is encouraging all healthcare and non-profit organizations in need of music to reach out to hello@epidemicsound.com to find out more and get set up.

Oscar Höglund, co-founder and CEO of Epidemic, says: “We haven’t always known how best to support those tackling the COVID-19 crisis, but several local hospitals have reached out to us recently and we’ve been humbled by their guidance.

“To the organizations helping others through this crisis, providing education, support and relief, we’re committed to making our music freely available to you in the hope that it can act as a force for good in these trying times; if it could be useful for you, reach out to us at hello@epidemicsound.com and let us know how we can help.”

The free music licenses will enable healthcare and non-profit organizations to access and use Epidemic Sound’s library of music for a period of three months.

Epidemic is backed by Creandum, EQT Mid-Market and Atwater Capital. The Company has offices in eight major cities across the globe: Stockholm, New York City, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Toronto and Sydney.

Listen to our music at: https://www.epidemicsound.com/

About Epidemic Sound

Epidemic Sound, the market leading platform for restriction-free music, is headquartered in Stockholm, heard around the globe and on a mission to soundtrack the world. 

The company has democratized access to music for storytellers. Its innovative digital rights model paves the way for creators - everyone from YouTubers to small businesses to the world’s largest brands - to use restriction-free music to take their content to the next level, whilst simultaneously supporting the musicians it works with both financially and creatively. 

The company was co-founded in 2009 and has offices in six major cities across the globe: Stockholm, New York, Los Angeles, Seoul, Hamburg and Amsterdam. Epidemic is backed by EQT, Blackstone Growth, Creandum, Atwater Capital, Alecta. AMF, and TIN Fonder and its Chairperson is Andrew Fisher, former CEO and Chairman of Shazam.