About us
Helping companies find the right music
Here at Audiocrowd, we are passionate about sharing royalty free music with creators across the world. We would like to contribute to making it easier to find high quality yet affordable music for content creators and enable companies to use great and varied music in their projects without legal doubts and qualms.
Helping musicians to monetize their music
On the other side of the coin, being a composer is a competitive business (as some of our team know from first-hand experience) and we aim to help give an opportunity to composers to make a living with their work.
100% Independent
Good to know: we are a Bootstrapping Startup, meaning as such we do not rely on foreign investors and call our own shots. That gives us freedom to decide freely about our products and we are dedicated to always compensate our composers fairly.
Our mission
Our goal is to become the best marketplace for musicians and speakers around the world. We want to help our artists market their talent easily and sustainably.
End-to-end music and audio solutions for companies
Different use cases require different paths, products, and licensing models. Here you can see the most important Audiocrowd areas at a glance.
Video, advertising & content
For image films, campaigns, social media, podcasts, and other content formats with the right licensing path.
Events
For corporate parties, trade fairs, conferences, and other live events with clear on-site licensing.
Courses & workshops
For yoga, courses, seminars, and other formats where music needs to be licensed cleanly for class usage.
Practice rooms
For waiting rooms, therapy rooms, treatment rooms, and calm reception areas with curated music packages.
Instore & business spaces
For shops, hospitality, wellness, reception areas, and other business spaces with ongoing background music.
Phone messages & voice
For professional phone messages, voicemail prompts, and other voice productions with voice talent and configurator.
Alex is a trained audio engineer and software developer. After leading software development teams for half a decade, he decided to start his own company audiocrowd. Alex is half german, half filipino and is passionate about working with inspiring teams and building sustainable products. And drinks way too much coffee…
Sophie Azita is a trained psychologist who joined Alex on his Audiocrowd venture in April 2022. Half German-Iranian, she is based in Lisbon and likes everything about language and mental health
Fredrick is a music lover from the Philippines who likes many music genres and is playing the guitar. He has always been passionate about music, so when the opportunity arose and he learned that audiocrowd was looking for a music editor, he immediately tried his luck and successfully applied. Since then he is responsible for the music catalog and artist management at audiocrowd.
Timon is a trained music producer and sound designer who studies at the Hda in Dieburg, Germany. Specializing in electronic music he can implement special customer requests. He has been producing music for six years and is present on all streaming platforms. Since July Timon is responsible for compositions, sound design and new samples at Audiocrowd.
The predecessor platform of audiocrowd went live in 2009 under the name "addloops". On this platform, it was possible to license and download around 250 tracks.
After 3 years on the market, the addloops founding team split up and the platform was taken offline.
Second round: With an improved concept, better music and a retreaded and specialized music store platform, Alex, one of the former addloops founders, takes a new approach to launch a sustainable and user-friendly marketplace for GEMA-free music. The after work hours and weekends will be used to develop the new platform from now on.
After long nights and many iterations, the time has finally come. The new platform launches under the name audiocrowd and is very well received by both musicians and customers. Audiocrowd continues to be developed and optimized after hours and on weekends.
A lot of feedback and also good music reaches us. This year is all about organic growth and optimizing processes. We are laying the foundation for our platform to grow.
We can reach more and more musicians and customers with our marketplace. Many new products make the jump to our platform: sound packages, albums and sound effects.
The after-work project is slowly turning into a real full-time project - the years of work are now paying off. In addition to redesigning our office space, we continue to expand our popular product and introduce our music subscription for agencies and content creators. For the first time, we are also supported in our growth by an excellent online marketing agency.
A dream comes true: an after-work project without outside capital has become a full-time job. And that's not all: This year, audiocrowd has been joined by new employees for the first time: Sophie, Fredrick and Timon are working remote first for audiocrowd from all over the world. Together we will make sure that audiocrowd can mature to the best product in the Royalty Free Music sector.
