Epidemic Sound recognized by LinkedIn as one of Sweden’s top 25 companies to grow your career

• Epidemic Sound is recognized by LinkedIn as one of Sweden’s top 25 companies to grow a career, based on unique LinkedIn data measuring elements of career progression
• Epidemic Sound ranked as the 19th best workplace to grow your career in Sweden, featuring among other global companies such as Northvolt, Spotify, and Ericsson

Stockholm, Sweden - Epidemic Sound, the market-leading music licensing platform for content creators, has been recognized as one of Sweden’s top 25 companies to grow your career in LinkedIn’s annual ranking LinkedIn Top Companies 2023.  

The second annual Top Companies list reveals the best workplaces in Sweden that are helping their employees build careers that will set them up for long-term success. The list ranks companies based on unique LinkedIn data that analyzes eight pillars that have been shown to lead to career progression: the ability to advance; skills growth; company stability; external opportunity; company affinity; gender diversity; educational background and employee presence in the country.  

The data measures elements of career progression such as how employees are advancing within a company, how they are advancing when they leave the company, how they are upskilling while employed there, the demand for workers coming from the company, and more. The data also measures how supportive a company’s culture is and its level of gender diversity. 

Epidemic Sound is ranked as the 19th best workplace in Sweden that helps set people up to get ahead in their careers, featuring among other global companies such as Northvolt, Spotify, Ericsson, SEB, IKEA, and McKinsey & Company.

Epidemic Sound’s inclusion on the list follows the company’s recent certification as a Great Place to Work, where it ranked highly across factors such as credibility, respect, fairness, pride, and camaraderie, and its recognition as one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe by the Financial Times. 

To learn more about Epidemic Sound as an employer, please visit epidemicsound.com/careers.  

LinkedIn Top Companies 2023 - Methodology

Our methodology uses LinkedIn data to rank companies based on eight pillars that have been shown to lead to career progression: ability to advance; skills growth; company stability; external opportunity; company affinity; gender diversity; educational background and employee presence in the country. Ability to advance tracks employee promotions within a company and when they move to a new company, based on standardized job titles. Skills growth looks at how employees across the company are gaining skills while employed at the company, using standardised LinkedIn skills. Company stability tracks attrition over the past year, as well as the percentage of employees that stay at the company at least three years. External opportunity looks at Recruiter outreach across employees at the company, signalling demand for workers coming from these companies. Company affinity, which seeks to measure how supportive a company’s culture is, looks at connection volume on LinkedIn among employees, controlled for company size. Gender diversity measures gender parity within a company and its subsidiaries. Finally, educational background examines the variety of educational attainment among employees, from no degree up to PhD levels, reflecting a commitment to recruiting a wide range of professionals. Finally, employee presence in the country looks at the company’s number of employees in the country relative to other companies, as a means of capturing companies that provide a diverse work environment and more opportunities for career advancement and networking. 

To be eligible, companies must have had at least 500 employees as of Dec. 31, 2022 in the country and attrition can be no higher than 10% over the methodology time period, based on LinkedIn data. Similarly, companies with layoffs that amount to more than 10% of their workforce, based on public announcements between Jan. 1, 2022 and the list launch, are also ineligible. Only parent companies rank on the list; majority-owned subsidiaries and data about those subsidiaries are incorporated into the parent company score. The methodology time frame is Jan. 1, 2022 through Dec. 31, 2022. This analysis represents the world seen through the lens of LinkedIn data, drawn from the anonymised and aggregated profile information of LinkedIn's members around the world.

We exclude all staffing and recruiting firms, educational institutions and government agencies. We also exclude LinkedIn, its parent company Microsoft and Microsoft subsidiaries.

LinkedIn Top Companies 2023 - About company insights

*Company insights were sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and include the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries. Data reflects aggregated public member data from active LinkedIn profiles in the relevant country and includes employee profiles associated with the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries on LinkedIn. We exclude members who identify as interns or contractors. All insights reflect a 12-month time period looking back from January 2023. Top locations were categorised as the regions or cities that employed the largest percentage of each company. Skills data was derived from measuring the most frequent unique skills among a company’s employees, relative to other companies. Most common job titles represent the occupations that are most common within each company. Largest job function measures the function area most prevalent within each company.

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, operates across the globe, and has offices in five major cities: Stockholm, New York, Los Angeles, Seoul and Amsterdam. Epidemic Sound is backed by EQT, Blackstone, Creandum, Atwater Capital, Alecta. AMF, and TIN Fonder and its Chairperson is Andrew Fisher, former CEO and Chairman of Shazam.

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