epidemic sound vs artlist, this is a non-sponsored
video meaning neither artlist nor epidemic sound paid me to do this video
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stronger foothold on epidemic sound vs artlist to see
which platform might work better for you break
this video down into five different categories category number one
is the music catalog two would be the music
search and discovery number three would be some standout features that each
application has number four would be the price and
number five would be the actual music licensing and what you might or might
not have to worry about with using epidemic or artlist number
one the music catalog so epidemic sound fact
does have a bigger music catalog epidemic sound has
access to over 32 000 tracks and 64 000 sound effects their music quality is
high and they add about 150 new songs a week not to mention that 64 000
number which is a huge number for sound effects
which are very valuable to add to your videos. Artlist is a little
they promote their catalog numbers less because it's not up in front and center
on their website as it is on epidemic sound and likely that is because
they just have less songs there's a couple reasons
probably for that and the biggest reason is just they are a younger company about
seven years younger than epidemic sound so
they've just had less time to develop their catalog
and although artlist has about 12 000 songs and i couldn't find anywhere with
the number of sound effects sounds they do have so if
you do know that number please put in the comments below and let us
know so for the first category let's crown
epidemic sound as the winner let's move on to the second category
which is search and discovery so in general i really like the dark mode
design that artlist has and i think it is quite easy to
find things because it is straightforward you have the songs in
the middle you have the nice sound signal that
where you can see the dynamics of the song
and you have some of the filter options we'll get into in a little bit
but um everything is kind of like starting on the left and moving
right it's a bit more of a left to right design
with the navigation that they have in where epidemic sound is a bit more top
down for example let's say we're looking for a song for a short
storytelling vlog style video video theme is a nice little feature that
artlist has that epidemic sound does not have
where right away if we know we're making a vlog video
why don't we go right away to this vlog filter and
search and go through and playing the sounds
that are good for vlogs genre is typical we would start with
genre and then we can go down and nest different filters on top of that genre
for example what i mean by that is if i want a pop song in my vlog
but i also want a powerful mood that is also a bit playful i can still
this is still being nested inside pop for example you can see here it's all
said pop pop pop and then we can be pressing the x's at
the top here and we can change the mood if we want to
i'm sorry we can change the genre if we want that
genre not to be pop but to be indie pop or singer songwriter besides
mood video theme and genre which we already discussed we can also
search to find music we like based on instrument which is super valuable if
you are just want piano key synth you know
epidemic sound doesn't have you can't search
just by instrument so again epidemic sound like i mentioned is more of a top
down general ux and design versus the left to right
that we have on artlist the top level of search we can go
by feature genre moods or albums we're going to go
genres again we can do top down like beats and then we can go into let's say
hopeful and let's say um hopeful and happy beats and so we have
a selection of songs here based on that search
it is laid out very differently in terms of the design
on epidemic sound now this wasn't always the case
only with within about a month or two epidemic sound it
completely changed their design so right now we can see that beats
happy and hopeful are really laid out clearly in what the filters are and we
can go deeper if we want to go genre and
only click alternative hip hop for example there's actually only one song
available to us but we can clearly see what filters we have on
and which ones we want to take off so there's a nice
little split layer here of alternative pop of genres and then we have the moods
layer here which i can take off any x here and then i can go back to
the top layer and then switch beats if i want to maybe it's a
subjective thing but i just find this easier to look at
for example let's compare it again just so we can see
the contrast with artlist and if i did the same search
similar search so if i did genre pop genre and then i also did a mood
of powerful and playful so here i can see the top i have
powerful and playful actually that's also very buggy i can't
see that um button here so that's uh there's a bug
but right now i can't also see the top level i
for maybe i forgot that i put let's say the pop genre on here i can click
click into genre and see it but it doesn't actually give me that
notification if i'm out of the genre navigation let's say i'm in mood i
no longer know um if i do have a genre filter on the
nice thing about epidemic sound is it does give you this little blue
feedback that hey you do have a filter on
this thing just remember that and so i think the winner here for discovery of
music is epidemic sound over artlist
it can be a subjective thing because artlist does have those nice features of
you can search by instrument and you can also search by
video theme where i think the equilibrium there
based on those two features this epidemic sound also has these
things called find similar is a search and discovery
of music feature where let's say i'm on this actual song where
i like this smart face song and it's only the only option available
with my filters i can go here and click these two
circles find similar and now i have similar
sounds to this smart face where i can go and
see similar songs based on their genre the bpm
and style this find similar feature is something that artlist
doesn't have so let's move on to the third category now which
are the standout features now the standout features for artlist that are
differentiated against epidemic sound would be the video theme search
and would be the instrument search and the stand-up features in epidemic
sound that are not available in artlist are these fine similar buttons
and the making the stems available for each song
so let's get into price next epidemic sound
really structures their pricing around channels so their smallest plan which is
the personal plan at 13 euros a month is based around one
channel so if you're a youtube creator then you can have one youtube channel
or one facebook channel or one instagram channel and you can use that music for
that channel you're also covered for a monetization
so if you are a filmmaker doing client work
where um you have to put music on someone else's youtube channel or
someone else's instagram or vimeo channel or on their website
then you need to up to the commercial plan which is 49 euros a month or 299.99
euros a year and then we have the enterprise plan with epidemic sound
which is basically you're a medium media company
up until only about a few months ago artlist was only available in one price
and now they've changed that and starts at 12
us dollars a month and with that plan you only get the sfx which
are the sound effects plan then you can go up to 16.60 usd a month and that this
is where you get the music only and not sound effects you have some
options here and it will depend on what type of creator you are or you just
a youtuber or you just a filmmaker are you doing client work
do you want sound effects or do you want just music do you want both let's move
on to the next category which is music licensing so epidemic sound has a music
licensing based on your channel so and is only active as you are paying
subscriber or paying customer so um you can monetize any video
it's all world free there's no copyright issues
and if you are paying so immediately when you stop paying
um it's okay with all the videos that you've published already because you
should have published those while you are paying customer
however if you have downloaded songs while you are a paying customer and
they're on your computer and you decide to use them again while
you're not a paying customer then you'll receive a copyright strike
for using that song because you don't have the license to use that song
anymore so you only have the license while you are paying subscriber
so that's on the personal plan and as you go up on plans with epidemic sound
then you start to get music licenses that you can use for client work so if
your client for example has a youtube channel
and you need licenses to put music on their channel or their social
networks then you'll have to go above the personal plan because the
personal plan is again just based on one channel the difference is when it comes
to music licensing for artlist is they're a little more i guess
liberal you could say so you have an unlimited license where you could use
the sound anywhere and i believe correct me
if i'm wrong in the comments when you download the song
you can just use the license forever and it wasn't exactly
clear on the website when i read it so please post in the comments if you know
about that but i believe you when you are paying subscriber you
have the license to use the sound but even
even if you download that song while you are paying subscriber you can still use
that song after you've deleted the your
or cancel your account so based on the number of crown
wins over the categories that i've made in this video then epidemic sound is i
guess the technical winner if you're curious to hear what
my music sounds like i create my own music it's actually not on epidemic
sound or any of the other sites but it is on spotify
and things like that so if you're curious to hear what i sound like please
go check it out feel free to subscribe and i hope to see
you in the next video.