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Audiosocket Partners with MoFilm

Apr. 06, 2012

Audiosocket Partners with MOFILM to Provide Music for the World’s Leading Crowdsourcing Agency

Coca-Cola, AT&T, Chevrolet and Unilever among Campaigns Using Music from Audiosocket’s Indie Music Catalog

SEATTLE, WA––April 6, 2012––Audiosocket, a collective of forward thinkers, tech junkies and music snobs, today announced a partnership with MOFILM, the world's leading crowdsourcing agency. MOFILM has a global community of filmmakers that create ads for today’s top brands. The company helps produce thousands of films per year and this tremendous growth is driving an ever-increasing demand for quality music that can be used within these campaigns. Filmmakers and brands using the Audiosocket powered “MOMusic” platform will now be able to directly license music from the Audiosocket catalog, featuring thousands of high-quality tracks from independent bands and composers.

MOFILM has partnerships with the largest brands in the world, and these brands are pumping out content at an accelerated rate, creating an intense and acute need for high-quality music. Audiosocket solves this need with its high-quality catalog of 37,000 songs that come from more than 2,200 artists. By partnering with MOFILM, Audiosocket opens up potentially massive new revenue streams for both Audiosocket, and for the artists themselves. Audiosocket’s artists now have exposure to new global distribution channels and visibility within the world’s leading brands.

“MOFILM joining forces with Audiosocket is a huge win for our filmmaking community, our clients and the Audiosocket artists,” said Jeff Merrihue, co-founder and CEO, MOFILM. “Our mission is to help creative people around the world showcase their talents to get noticed and get famous which we do by exposing great creative to the world’s biggest brands. Audiosocket shares our vision to support the creative community, and they’ve built an indie music powerhouse with a robust technology infrastructure. This is a huge opportunity for our filmmakers, for their artists, and for the brands we work with.”

The MOFILM content partnership follows Audiosocket’s introduction of its innovative new platform, MaaS™ (music as a service). Fundamentally built for easy, plug and play integration into third party photo and video sharing services, gaming platforms, digital agencies, and social networks, MaaS introduces a new way to license music for all media. In working with Audiosocket, artists receive tremendous exposure through the crowd-sourced brand campaigns and open powerful new revenue streams to their work.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with MOFILM, said Brent McCrossen, co-founder and CEO, Audiosocket. “They’ve developed a powerful business model and have cultivated a valuable community of filmmakers. Together we serve as the connective tissue, bringing our musicians and their filmmakers together to create sensational content for the world’s largest brands. Audiosocket’s mission is to bring today’s top-notch emerging artist to the forefront. Partnering with MOFILM furthers this objective and provides ultimate value to the artists that we represent.

The MOFILM integration is live today – find out more at http://mofilm.audiosocket.com

Audiosocket Brings Indie Music To Student Filmmakers

Mar. 13, 2012

Audiosocket U., another MaaS™ (Music as a Service) Product, Offers Student Filmmakers a truly affordable music licensing solution

MARCH 13, 2012—(AUSTIN, TX)— Audiosocket, a music, media and digital licensing company, today announced Audiosocket University U., which will allow student filmmakers to discover and license music via a hosted music platform. Audiosocket U. leverages Audiosocket's MaaS platform, delivering a highly-vetted roster of more than 35,000 songs from more than 2,000 indie artists and composers to student filmmakers who need licensed music for their films and media. For as little as $5, students can legally license music for any student project or program. And when their school signs-up with Audiosocket, the institution receives an annual donation.

No other platform delivers this rich combination of choice, quality, and affordability to student filmmakers. And because the film school platform is fully hosted and managed by Audiosocket, there are no integration requirements for participating schools and universities. Pre-launch, the Company already actively licenses music to students from more than 20 schools around the world.

Kevin Bleich, an early advocate and student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts says, “Audiosocket offers a unique and robust tool for media creators wanting to add quality music to their projects without breaking the budget. Their tools are unique and easy to use and their catalog is superb. Ultimately, they take the music licensing process, which has traditionally been a nightmare to navigate, and make it an enjoyable part of the creative process.”

Professor Kathy Bruner from Taylor University, whose students found and licensed music through Audiosocket last year adds, “Audiosocket's content is in a different class from stock music libraries. It's distinctive and crafted by musicians who obviously care about their work. Audiosocket's catalog lets my students find the music that really enhances their films, at a price they can afford. The results are terrific and we’re thrilled to see a much needed resource like this come along for students.”

Understanding copyright law and the process of respecting others Intellectual Property is a critical part of educating next generation content creators. But knowledge without resource can be limiting and frustrating. While serving on the board for the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY), Jenn Miller, President of Audiosocket found a lack of services catered to supporting young filmmakers and their access to high quality, culturally relevant music for their work. “This inspired our team to take action,” says Jenn. “Audiosocket U. makes the process of discovering and licensing music quick, easy, and even...fun!”

NFFTY’s Managing Director, Lindsey Johnson comments “music licensing is a huge challenge within the filmmaker community. Audiosocket U. is a really cool program that allows young filmmakers to do the right thing, and not at their artistic or financial expense.”

This is Audiosocket's third MaaS product, following the initial MaaS platform launch, and the introduction of MaaS Storefront late last year. Other recent MaaS partnerships include IndieFlix, The National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) and Vimeo.

If you’d like to contact Audiosocket about Audiosocket U, please email audiosocketu@audiosocket.com. You can discover music at http://university.audiosocket.com

Audiosocket listed in Hypebot's Indie Artist Revenue Opportunities for 2012

Dec. 28, 2011

Indie artists are making money in all sorts of ways, often by combining a variety of small revenue streams and one-off deals into significant income. Audiosocket is listed as one of the 15 revenue streams for 2012.

Read the full list here.

Audiosocket Brings Indie Music Storefronts Online

Dec. 06, 2011

MaaS™ Storefront Brings Plug-and-Play Music Platform to Vertical Content Communities

DECEMBER 6, 2011—(SEATTLE AND NEW ORLEANS)— Audiosocket, a music, media and technology company that delivers up-and-coming talent to the marketplace, today introduced MaaS™ Storefront. This is the second MaaS product the company launched this year, which facilitates deals between indie artists and digital media companies in need of easy and affordable music for licensing, discovery, streaming, gaming, photo sharing, filmmaking and social networks. MaaS™ Storefront launches with partners including IndieFlix, LearnCreate and The National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY).

MaaS™ Storefront is a music licensing solution that leverages Audiosocket’s Music as a Service platform, delivering Audiosocket’s well vetted catalog of more than 35,000 pre-cleared songs from emerging artists to communities that need legally licensed music for their content creators. Hosted and managed by Audiosocket, MaaS™ Storefront is completely customizable, with no integration requirements. Once deployed, communities will be able to easily search for, discover, and license songs for non-commercial or commercial purposes.

“Content communities continue to struggle as they try to navigate the licensing process, and frequently comment about the lack of high quality, culturally relevant music solutions,” said Jenn Miller, President, Audiosocket. “The MaaS™ Storefront product provides a new service to the music industry that helps shape the monetization and artist trending strategies while eliminating pain points for content creators and digital media companies working to address copyright compliance issues on the web. By hosting the storefront at Audiosocket, we can expand our offering with key partners without the need for resource-intensive integration.”

“IndieFlix, the Netflix for Indie films, often receives submissions where the music hasn’t been properly cleared, which requires us to spend time and money to solve this,” said Scilla Andreen, founder and CEO, IndieFlix. “Audiosocket delivers film-specific licenses that address this challenge directly, and simplify the music licensing process for IndieFlix and our filmmakers.”

“Music licensing is a huge challenge within the filmmaker community, and we’ve long been looking for an easy way to give our people access to great music,” comments NFFTY Managing Director, Lindsey Johnson. “We’re thrilled about the Audiosocket partnership, and our filmmakers should be as well as it allows them to do the right thing, and not at their artistic expense.”

“MaaS™ Storefront delivers our music to digital media companies, empowers our artists to make money, and allows more communities to discover and license great content for their projects,” continued Miller. “We’re thrilled to take another step towards addressing some critical pain points for artists, media companies, and content creators.”

To stay up to date on the latest MaaS developments follow @audiosocket and #MaaS on Twitter.

Vimeo Taps Audiosocket For Vimeo Music Store Content

Sep. 21, 2011

Audiosocket’s Music as a Service (MaaS™) platform gives Vimeo filmmakers a new pipeline to discover and license pre-cleared music

SAN FRANCISCO––SEPTEMBER 21, 2011––Audiosocket, a collective of forward thinkers, tech junkies, and music snobs, today announced that it has been selected by leading video sharing site Vimeo for the Vimeo Music Store. The Vimeo Music Store is a fully integrated, custom-designed music licensing solution that leverages Audiosocket’s Music as a Service (MaaS™) platform, delivering Audiosocket’s catalog of pre-cleared music to the Vimeo community. Vimeo’s filmmakers can now search for, discover, and license songs for non-commercial or limited commercial purposes.

Audiosocket purpose-built the MaaS platform to make it frictionless for any digital media company to plug in and easily search, discover and license music. Vimeo is the first commercial implementation of MaaS, the world’s first fully integrated and search-able music library with 100+ categories of integrated metadata, localized to the Vimeo platform.

“We chose Audiosocket for the Vimeo Music Store because of the company’s powerful technology solution, and its rich curated roster of music from emerging artists,” said Dae Mellencamp, GM, Vimeo. “With innovative licensing models, and a catalog of high-quality music with over 33K songs, Vimeo users can select and license the song that best fits their production, and distribute it over the web, and at film festivals.”

“The Vimeo Music Store allows filmmakers to finally tackle one of the greatest challenges for any indie filmmaker: To make music licensing easy, accessible and affordable,” said Jesse Harris, Director Jesse Harris Films and founder of National Film Festival for Talented Youth. “Most up-and-coming filmmakers don’t even know where to start when it comes to music licensing. Audiosocket’s technology and vast library of talented artists have made finding music for my projects a breeze. Being able to now do it all via Vimeo, a site I use everyday, will only make it easier.”

The Vimeo Music Store delivers many benefits for Audiosocket’s music artists, including better distribution, guaranteed royalty payments on licensed music and broad exposure to a global audience of more than 50M monthly unique visitors, including many of the best amateur content creators as well as professional filmmakers.

“We think this is a huge opportunity for the Vimeo community, and for Audiosocket artists,” said Brent McCrossen, CEO, Audiosocket. “Vimeo's music store allows our artists to make money where they haven't historically: Personal video creation. MaaS introduces a new way for indie musicians to gain exposure and monetize their work, and we believe Vimeo is the perfect launch partner.”

For more information, and to access the Vimeo Music Store, please visit http://vimeo.com/musicstore

About Audiosocket Audiosocket is a music, media and technology company that delivers today’s hot, up and coming talent to the marketplace. We have 33,000 songs in our catalog that come from more than 1900 emerging bands, composers and record labels from around the world. We're a next-generation content provider that thrives at the intersection of music and technology.

Audiosocket has developed an innovative music search and licensing technology that we call MaaS™ - Music as a Service. Fundamentally designed for integration into video and photo sharing platforms, virtual worlds, online games and social networks, MaaS is changing the way that music is licensed in digital media. Days worth of content are being created every hour and MaaS provides the world the tools needed to legally source and license music for any creative project.

About Vimeo, LLC Leading video sharing site Vimeo® provides the easiest way for people to host and share their videos in high quality. The site provides great privacy features and inspiring videos from a vibrant, respectful community of creative users who care about how and where they show their work. Launched in 2004 and headquartered in New York, NY, Vimeo offers users a video sharing experience that is both entertaining and easy to use. Vimeo is a 2010 & 2009 Time Magazine Top 50 Website. Vimeo, LLC is a subsidiary of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).

Media Contact: Mike Barash, (650) 520-0120 or Cristina Dunning (503) 507-4758 or press@audiosocket.com

Audiosocket Oktoberfest Benefiting NFFTY

Sep. 13, 2011

Come enjoy a brew and a brawt for a great cause on Saturday, October 1 from 2-6 at Nectar in Seattle!

Sample local harvest beers, enjoy tunes from touring Audiosocket artists The Wandas & And And And all while supporting the National Film Festival for Talented Youth!

Beer tastings from local breweries, meat muffins, and special guests!

Click, pledge and watch the Fall NFFTY promo video here.

21+, free admission, please RSVP.

Audiosocket Introduces Music as a Service (MaaS™), Opens API to Third Party Developers

Jul. 19, 2011

MaaS Disrupts Music Licensing Models, Easily Integrates into Advertising, Gaming, Photo and Video Sharing Platforms

07.19.2011– SAN FRANCISCO––JULY 19, 2011––Audiosocket, a collective of forward thinkers, tech junkies, and music snobs, is putting a new spin on music licensing by bringing to market a disruptive new platform called Music as a Service (MaaS™). Fundamentally built for easy, plug and play integration into third party photo and video sharing services, gaming platforms, digital and ad agencies, and social networks, MaaS introduces a new way to license music for digital media. Anywhere MaaS is deployed, content producers across vertical markets will be able to search, discover and license music from Audiosocket’s catalog of over 33,000 songs from more than 1,900 artists and composers worldwide.

Audiosocket’s API is available to developers, so agencies and media sharing platforms can integrate the Audiosocket catalog into their own services, delivering to their communities the most powerful music search and licensing platform on the web. MaaS provides worldwide music licensing in perpetuity, with automated licensing generation and payment processing, simplifying what has been a notoriously challenging process for content creators, and creating new revenue streams for artists and partners.

Audiosocket has signed several major partnerships on the MaaS platform that will roll out globally this year. Integrating MaaS is simple, and partners pay nothing up-front but have access to new monetization strategies that drive additional partner revenues.

For artists, MaaS provides new opportunities for exposure and distribution via technology and media partners, and global agencies. Payment becomes easy, automatic, and enforceable, creating new revenue streams for artists.

“Doing music licensing well, so that the correct rights are secured and all parties are properly compensated, typically has been a massive headache for all parties involved," said Dave Dederer, digital music executive with one of the world's largest technology companies and member of the multi-platinum band The Presidents of the United States of America. "Audiosocket's MaaS platform offers a way out of the mess, minimizing friction throughout the system and opening up possibilities for content owners and users alike to generate more usage, value and revenue."

Animoto is an Audiosocket client, and helped shape the vision for the MaaS platform. Animoto places a high value on music because it’s imperative to delivering a great end product to its users. Gone are the days stock music can satisfy savvy content creators. Animoto users demand top tier, culturally relevant music from emerging artists, and Audiosocket delivers it. This relationship was the inspiration for the platform that became MaaS.

“MaaS gives content platforms a way to increase their average revenue per user, and an innovative and engaging way to deliver a custom user experience,” said Brent McCrossen, co-founder and CEO, Audiosocket. “We looked ahead at the future of technology and music, and created a path to deliver something innovative that would solve problems for all the parties involved. We chose to attack, while our competitors are slugging it out in traditional markets getting driven down to zero.”

The Audiosocket API is available today – interested developers can apply to access the API at http://develop.audiosocket.com.

About Audiosocket Audiosocket is a music, media and technology company that delivers today’s hot, up and coming talent to the marketplace. We have 33,000 songs in our catalog that come from more than 1900 emerging bands, composers and record labels from around the world. We're a next-generation content provider that thrives at the intersection of music and technology.

Audiosocket has developed an innovative music search and licensing technology that we call “MaaS” - Music as a Service. Fundamentally designed for integration into video and photo sharing platforms, virtual worlds, online games and social networks, MaaS is changing the way the music is licensed in digital media. Days worth of content are being created every hour and MaaS provides the world the tools needed to legally source and license music for any creative project.

Audiosocket was founded in 2007 and has dual headquarters in Seattle, WA and New Orleans, LA. For more information please visit www.audiosocket.com.

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Audiosocket Partners with Lands’ End Canvas to Launch New Music Now Band Competition

Jun. 01, 2011

Go to landsendcanvas.com/backstage - Tune in, Vote and Enter to Win $250 Concert Cash Daily

Music transcends the test of time and is rooted in authenticity much like the timeless style of Lands’ End Canvas. To find the band that best represents the look, feel and sound of the classic apparel line with a modern twist, Lands End Canvas customers have the chance to go “backstage” at landsendcanvas.com/backstage and vote for an up-and-coming band as part of the New Music Now campaign. From now until June 27, 2011, profiles and music from five up-and-coming bands will be featured at the site where music fans can tune in to hear original tracks and then vote for the band that best represents the Lands’ End Canvas style. Visitors can vote for their favorite band once each day to be entered to win one of ten $250 LiveNation® Concert Cash™ prizes good towards concert tickets and merchandise at LiveNation.com. Concert Cash winners to be announced on July 11, 2011.

“At Lands’ End Canvas we know music and style go hand-in-hand,” said Chris Kolbe, EVP, Chief Design and Merchandising Officer, Lands’ End. “Through the New Music Now campaign we wanted to help connect our customers with original, undiscovered artists and share our passion for indie music.” Five Featured Bands

Audiosocket considered hundreds of bands for the New Music Now campaign and the five selected finalist include:

• JD McPherson, Chicago – Made in an entirely vintage analogue studio, Signs & Signifiers will make you want to go back and pull out and dust off all of those Elvis, Little Richard and James Brown LPs. JD breathes some major new life into a style we don’t hear much on the radio anymore. You are going to be hearing a lot from this guy soon though!

• The Wandas, Boston – The Wandas are about to break big with their upcoming 2011 release produced by Patrick Krief of The Dears and featuring members of indie rock idols The Stills and Stars.

• Archie Powell & The Exports, Chicago -- A super fun, high energy post-garage band out of the Midwest that takes a page out of the song books of Paul Westerberg and Tom Petty. It’s exciting and smart music that doesn’t skimp on sarcasm.

Page Two/Lands’ End Canvas New Music Now Band Competition

• Kero One, San Francisco -- If you haven’t heard of Kero One yet you are about to start hearing about him a lot. Already a huge star in Japan this Bay Area hip hop artist has been getting attention from all the right places these days including a major endorsement from Will.i.am.

• Visqueen, Seattle -- Visqueen has been a staple on the Northwest rock scene for years but their new album Message to Garcia has certainly been their crowning achievement garnering rave reviews from nearly every major source for music news. Rachel Flotard is a powerhouse front woman known also known for her prominent roll in Neko Case’s band whom she has also recruited to sing on this album.

“At Audiosocket, we are always on the lookout for opportunities for independent artists. The bands we have selected for the New Music Now campaign are top notch and without a doubt deserve this kind of spotlight,” said Mike Turner, Director of Creative Music Services for Audiosocket. “The interactive “fan engagement” style of programs such as the New Music Now campaign with Lands’ End Canvas is great for artist development and discovering emerging talent.” Votes will be tabulated after June 27, 2011 and the winning band will be announced on July 11, 2011. The winning band will receive $3,000 worth of studio time to record a CD and a featured spot on landsendcanvas.com and its Facebook page.

Audiosocket's CEO to speak at Sync Up Music Conference

Apr. 07, 2011

Audiosocket's CEO, Brent McCrossen, will be speaking at this years "Sync Up Conference", a music business conference hosted by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation - the non-profit that owns the world famous Jazz Fest.

The panel discussion, "The Future of Music Marketing" will be held on Saturday May 7th at 11:35am at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Joining the discussion are Billy O'Connell (Cash Music) and Chad Greer (Downtown Music). The panel moderator is Jonathan McHugh (Island Def Jam).

Sync Up admission is free, but seating is limited and advance registration is required.

The Sync Up conference will be broadcast in live video streaming via Liveset, a New Orleans-based digital media company.

2011 Sync Up Conference Schedule

All events at The New Orleans Museum of Art unless otherwise noted

Friday, April 29 Independent Artist Development and Distribution 9:00 a.m. Registration Opens

9:15 a.m. Coffee and Bloody Marys 10:00 a.m. Welcome 10:15 a.m. Keynote: Career Development In the New Music Business Mystikal Interviewed by Wild Wayne 11:15 a.m. Panel Discussion: Success In the Music Business – With or Without Selling Records

Selling records isn’t as easy as it used to be – if it ever was. But it can be done. What’s the key to success? And with music sales down overall, do alternate revenue streams like licensing and sponsorship make up for lost income? Or is just about touring? Moderator: Sean O’Connell, President, Music Allies (Ashville, NC) Peter Himberger, Principal, Impact Artist Management (New York, NY) Kristin Hersh, Founder, Throwing Muses (New Orleans, LA) George Howard, Co-founder, Tune Core (New Orleans, LA)

Saturday, April 30 The Music Festival Industry

9:00 a.m. Registration Opens 9:15 a.m. Coffee and Bloody Marys 10:00 a.m. Welcome 10:15 a.m. Keynote Address: The State of Today's Live Music Industry Larry Vallon, Executive Vice President, AEG Live 10:45 a.m. Panel Discussion: Curating a Music Festival

Many of the big music festivals are setting new records – but others are coming online only to disappear within a year or so. Meanwhile, some festivals thrive by staying purposefully small. Moderator: Hugh Southard, President, Blue Mountain Artists (Charlotte, NC) Danny Melnick, President, Absolutely Live (New York, NY) Rob Gibson, Artistic Director, Savannah Music Festival (Savannah, GA) Bruce Labadie, Festival Director, San Jose Jazz Festival (San Jose, CA) Michael Arnone, Producer/Creator, Michael Arnone’s Crawfish Fest (Augusta, NJ) Jennifer Pickering, Executive Director, Lake Eden Arts Festival (Ashville, NC) Mel Puljic, Principal, Mondo Mundo (New York, NY)

Friday, May 6 Licensing Music to Visual Media Co-sponsored by Bug Music and Sugaroo! 9:00 a.m. Registration Opens 9:15 a.m. Coffee and Bloody Marys 10:00 a.m. Welcome 10:05 a.m. Panel Discussion:

Licensing Music to Film and TV

With the recording industry in the dumps, many artists are fining new revenue streams by licensing their music to film and TV productions. But it’s not as easy to do as it sounds. Moderator: Michael Nieves, Sugaroo (Los Angeles, CA) PJ Bloom, Music Supervisor, "Glee," (Los Angeles, CA) Josh Rabinowitz, Grey Worldwide Advertising (New York, NY) Danny Exum, Music Supervisor, Herzog & Co. (N. Hollywood, CA)

11:45 a.m. Panel Discussion: Video Games, Music and Alternative Distribution Channels

Making music for videogames isn’t just about writing a great song. There are many complicating factors. But videogames are also great new ways to promote music. And if you don’t know how to play, then you can’t get in the game. Moderator: David Hirshland, President, Bug Music (Los Angeles, CA) Ric Neil, Glu Mobile (San Francisco, CA) Carter Lipscomb, Sony Computer Entertainment (San Mateo, CA) Robert Mercurio, Galactic (New Orleans, LA)

Saturday, May 7 Touring in Australia, and New Tools For Artist Marketing 9:00 a.m. Registration Open 9:15 a.m. Coffee and Bloody Marys 10:00 a.m. Welcome 10:05 a.m. Panel Discussion: G'Day! Touring Down Under

The folks in Australia love their music – especially the rootsy, funky music of New Orleans and Louisiana. Many of our artists already have solid fan bases there. We talk to the leading promoters from the land Down Under to find out how to get there and build an audience. Peter Noble, Festival Director, Byron Bay Bluesfest (Byron Bay, Australia) Michael Chugg, Chugg Entertainment (Sydney, Australia) Millie Millgate, Sounds Australia (Sydney, Australia) Nathan Farrell, Director, Nathan Farrell Entertainment (Sydney, Australia) Brian Wise, Editor, Rhythms Magazine (Melbourne, Australia)

11:05 a.m. Keynote Address: Making Money, Making Music - Harder Than It Looks, Simpler Than It Seems Bryan Calhoun, VP New Media and External Affairs, SoundExchange (Washington, DC)

11:35 a.m. Panel Discussion: The Next Phase in Artist Marketing

Social media, experiential, mobile platforms, grass-roots touring – they’re all in the grab-bag of artists who successfully develop careers in today’s music business. Moderator: Jonathan McHugh, Sr. VP Island Def Jam (Los Angeles, CA) Billy O'Connell, CASH Music (New Orleans, LA) Chad Greer, VP Creative, Downtown Music (Los Angeles, CA) Brent McCrossen, CEO, Audiosocket (New Orleans, LA)

Sony Music Independent Network (SIN) Taps Audiosocket to Represent International Artists

Sep. 01, 2010

Industry giant hopes to expand its reach by synching emerging, culturally relevant music through Audiosocket's online catalog and expertise.

Sept 1st, 2010, SEATTLE – Audiosocket, a market leader in pre-cleared music for TV, advertising, film, games, and interactive media, has entered an agreement with Sony Music Independent Network (SIN) to shop select artists for music synchronization licenses.

SIN discovers, signs and develops today's most cutting edge international artists. A division of Sony Music Entertainment, SIN promotes the foreign artist catalog throughout the United States.

SIN artists on the Audiosocket roster include:

• Automatic Loveletter – (American - Pop / Rock) • Guy Sebastian (Australian - soul singer) • Karnivool (Australia – Hard Rock) • Kopek (Ireland – Indie Rock) • Boom Boom Satellites (Japan - Industrial) • Cassette Kids (Australia - Pop/ New Wave) • Kira (Denmark – Indie / Alternative) • Beduk (Turkey – Dance / Pop)

“Audiosocket has worked hard to establish itself as the premier licensing source for today’s independent music.” says Brent McCrossen, the company’s cofounder and CEO.

“We have built a catalog that is synonymous with excellence, and we've established a solid reputation in the industry. SIN is an international company and one of the most powerful music brands in music. They called on us to represent their artists for sync licenses, because they know we're delivering sound solutions to music supervisors in all media.”

Since its founding in 2008, Audiosocket has curated a catalog that features emerging talent. Audiosocket has secured high profile placements with every major media company including: ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, Disney, TIME, Nickelodeon, Converse, McDonald's, Warner Brothers, Fox, Paramount, The Gap, Urban Outfitters, 2K games, Real Time Worlds, Sony, Microsoft and others. Audiosocket also was chosen to handle music supervision for Nickelodeon’s The Troop, and Ondi Timoner's new film Cool It (Sundance award-winning Director of Dig).

Audiosocket Adds GRAMMY-nominated Rocker to Advisory Board

Jun. 28, 2010

Audiosocket, the Seattle-based leader in pre-cleared music for TV, advertising, film, games, retail foreground and other uses, has announced the addition of Dave Dederer to its advisory board.

Dederer is best-known as a founding member of the multi-platinum, twice GRAMMY-nominated band The Presidents of the United States of America. In recent years he has made a mark as an executive as Seattle digital media company Melodeo; Melodeo's nuTsie music apps are the #1 paid music listening products in the Apple App Store and the company recently held the #1 overall spot for all apps in the App Store for more than a week with its Top 100s music app. Melodeo was acquired in mid-June by HP.

"My co-founder Jenn Miller and I have a strong vision for Audiosocket," said the company's co-founder and CEO Brent McCrossen, "but we recognize the need for a strong team to be the best. We're happy to have Dave join our staff and investors, who we think are the best out there. Dave's experience running The Presidents business and with Melodeo gives him a unique perspective that we can use to our advantage."

"Pre-cleared music is one of the few areas of the music business where I see unlimited growth moving forward," said The Presidents' Dave Dederer, "Audiosocket has better content, technology and business models than its competitors and is poised for success. I'm honored to be asked to join the team and look forward to helping out."

Since its founding in 2008, Audiosocket has curated a handpicked catalog of emerging artists and secured high profile placements with every major media company including Converse, Disney, TIME, Nickelodeon, McDonald's, Warner Brothers, Fox, Paramount, The Gap, ABC's Mercy, Castle, Lincoln Heights, Lost, NBC's Conan O'Brien, Urban Outfitters, Hyatt Place Hotels, Microsoft and more. Audiosocket was also chosen to handle music supervision for Nickelodeon’s The Troop, and Ondi Timoner's new film Cool It (Sundance award-winning Director of Dig).

A Look At Our New Reel

May. 21, 2010

We're excited to be launching our new site next month which will feature samples of our work. Until then, please check out our newest reels at Vimeo.

Audiosocket at SXSW & SXSeattle 2010!

Feb. 22, 2010

It's not just for the beer and BBQ, but for the music! It's almost that time again for SXSW and Audiosocket is sponsoring this year's SXSeattle party that has an allstar lineup on TWO STAGES at Beauty Bar on Saturday, March 20th! Including Fences, The Moondoggies, Lonely Forest, Rocky Votolato, The Dutchess and The Duke, Cave Singers, Maldives, Grand Hallway and Staxx Bros. Get all the info and RSVP at sxseattle.com and you can always get up the minute news on Twitter.