Melodie Music
Providing Copyright-Safe Music for Content Creators

Music is a powerful storytelling tool and the best friend of every content creator. But those creating the content need to be extremely wary of overstepping into the realm of copyright infringement when integrating a piece of music. Australian startup, Melodie Music, has created a simple, intuitive music licensing platform to solve this persistent problem in the entertainment industry.

Melodie’s founder and managing director, Evan Buist, a composer himself, saw an opportunity to improve the library music business by providing an exclusive catalog of consistently high-quality music, paired with simplified licensing and a powerful search interface. Since launching in 2017, Melodie has had more than one million minutes of music broadcast on Australian television alone, featured in programs like Ninja Warrior, Love It or List It, Real Housewives, and The Amazing Race.

Melodie is a subscription-based music licensing platform providing unlimited access to high-quality music from an international roster of award-winning composers. While Melodie helps content creators to easily license music for television, film, podcasts, videos, gaming and everything in between, it also creates new revenue streams for composers and artists— supporting a thriving creative community.

“We work with an incredibly talented, diverse roster of artists. Supporting our creative community means splitting all revenue streams and not earning a cent until our artists do: it’s the only equitable model,” says Buist.

The platform’s intuitive search engine makes it easy to find the right track regardless of musical experience. Users can search or exclude keywords categorized by musical genre, sub-genre, mood, instrument, purpose, tempo or key. Additionally, in partnership with Musiio, Melodie employs AI powered reverse-audio search tools to help users to find music using a YouTube link or MP3 file as reference, making it possible to reference tracks from Star Wars, ACDC or Coldplay in a search.

For every track uncovered in a search, Melodie provides alternate mixes and elements of each song known as ‘stems.’ These gives editors flexibility and options to adapt the music when editing content.

In the enterprise space, Melodie offers an API tool, which seamlessly integrates its music and search features directly into third party, user generated content platforms. This allows the users of those platforms to safely synchronize quality music into any kind of digital content. A game-changer for platforms that might have held off integrating professional music due to the risk of copyright infringement.

A testament to Melodie’s capabilities is Breakout Clips a fast-growing video marketing platform that partnered with Melodie to embed music tracks into their videos. By plugging into Melodie’s API, Breakout Clips allowed its users to access and integrate more than 20,000 curated, high-quality tracks without ever leaving the Breakout Clips platform.

By making it easier for content creators to source consistently great music with no legal headaches, Melodie Music has carved a niche for itself in the entertainment industry. With more impressive developments on the way, there is no doubt that Melodie has an electrifying future ahead.