elevate.io Partners with Epidemic Sound to Bring Music to its Collaborative
Video Editing Platform
elevate.io, a division of Blackbird plc (AIM: BIRD), today announced it has partnered with Epidemic Sound, the leading music licensing platform for creators and brands, to integrate its expansive royalty-free music catalog directly into elevate.io, the Company’s online collaborative video editing platform. Available immediately, this integration gives elevate.io users the ability to instantly access Epidemic Sound’s world-class catalog of music and sound effects within the platform’s editor, making it easier than ever to create polished, professional content and removing the stress of copyright worries or additional royalties.
Creator-first company Epidemic Sound provides high-quality, royalty-free music and sound effects for creators, brands and media companies. By owning all the rights to its catalog, it makes music licensing simple, safe and worry-free. Its surging popularity generates over 3 billion views per day from videos which include Epidemic Sound’s music.
With this announcement, all elevate.io users will gain instant access to Epidemic Sound’s extensive music catalogue directly within elevate.io’s editing interface. elevate.io users can search, preview, and add tracks seamlessly, with licensing of the music – which can be tailored to users requirements – handled when the video is exported.
“Music is fundamental to great storytelling, it’s what gives video content its emotion and energy,” said Ian McDonough, executive chair for Blackbird. “Rather than sending creators off to find tracks elsewhere, we’ve built it directly into the elevate.io platform. World-class music, right there in users’ workflows. No interruptions, just creativity and complete peace of mind. This is a huge moment for the Company and we’re incredibly excited”
“This is an excellent example of the Epidemic Sound API enabling creative platforms to grow their customer offering through music,” added Matt Sage, interim chief product officer, Epidemic Sound. “The elevate.io team have done an amazing job integrating our catalogue into their collaborative video editor and we’re excited to see how their creators and brands use our tracks to take their content to the next level. We’re delighted to continue supporting the development of the elevate.io platform through world class-music and soundtracking.”
elevate.io Something New for a New Era of Content Creation
elevate.io’s collaborative video editing workflow in the cloud offers a number of benefits to video teams of all skill levels, including:
- Video editing tools in the browser enabling both short form and long form content creation complete with transitions, effects, colour correction and visual looks;
- Multiplayer collaboration enabling realtime simultaneous co-creation in the timeline;
- Asynchronous collaboration where multiple contributors can leave comments and feedback directly on the timeline;
- Review mode enables creators to invite others to comment on the project from a clean, simple player without having full access to the timeline;
- Streamlined Asset Management with features like Shared Team Folders keeps shared files in order, saving time and making the entire team’s editing process run smoother. Instead of wasting time hunting for assets, teams can just get straight to editing – with everything already in the editor, exactly where it’s needed.
- No downloads or installs required, the platform can be run from any reasonably modern computer accessible from anywhere without the need for external hard drives.
Pricing and Availability
The integration of the full Epidemic Sound library is available immediately and is priced as follows:
- Creators using audio tracks for personal content will require 100 tokens;
- Audio tracks used for commercial content will require 500 tokens.
How do Tokens Work?
- Every elevate․io user gets an introductory 100 tokens for free. These tokens will last forever until used;
- Creator plan subscribers get 100 tokens that replenish every month
- Monthly tokens will expire if you don’t use them that month
- Subscribers can purchase more tokens easily. Purchased tokens will last forever until used.
Additional tokens are available for purchase through a users’ subscription account and are priced as follows:
- 500 tokens: $8.00 USD
- 2500 tokens: $50.00 USD
- 10,000 tokens: $190.00 USD
The full elevate.io collaborative video editing platform is available immediately and is free for all users. However elevate.io also offers three subscription-based plans with expanded features and benefits, including:
Creator Plan: $10.00 USD per month*
Ideal for creators who want to elevate their content to the next level, this plan includes:
- 2 editor seats
- 250 GB cloud storage
- Unlimited 4K Ultra HD exports
- 100 tokens per month, which enables:
- 1.5 hours of subtitles
- 2.5 hours of text to speech
- 2-3 AI generated images
Pro Plan: $30.00 USD per month*
Build your brand with the Pro plan — perfect for influencers and small businesses.
- 3 editor seats
- 750 GB cloud storage
- Unlimited 4K Ultra HD exports
- 500 tokens per month, which enables:
- 7 hours of subtitles
- 12.5 hours of text to speech
- 10-15 AI generated images
- Pro video format uploads
Business Plan: $100.00 USD per month*
For business teams that want to save time and money by moving their entire collaborative video editing workflow into the cloud. This plan includes:
- 5 editor seats
- 2.5 TB cloud storage
- Unlimited 4K Ultra HD exports
- 2000 tokens per month, which enables:
- 28 hours of subtitles
- 50 hours of text to speech
- 40-60 AI generated images
- Pro video format uploads
- Premium support
*Discounts apply for users who choose annual subscription rates vs monthly rates.
About Epidemic Sound
Epidemic Sound is a global leader in music and sound for content creation, offering an extensive catalog that’s heard over 3 billion times every day. Its user-friendly licensing model allows brands and creators to access music with full usage rights while providing tools to elevate their content. Epidemic Sound partners with artists across all genres, providing them with financial support through a 50/50 royalty split, upfront payments, and bonuses. With the world’s only 100% IP-owned, worry-free catalog of music and sound effects powered by innovative software, integrations, and AI solutions, Epidemic Sound is the world’s leading soundtracking platform.
About Blackbird plc
Blackbird plc operates in the fast-growing SaaS, Media and Entertainment and content creation markets. Blackbird plc’s patented technology allows for frame accurate navigation, playback, viewing and editing in the cloud and it has two products.
BlackbirdⓇ a market leading suite of cloud-native computing applications, is used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, live events and content owners, post production houses, other mass market digital video channels and corporations.
elevate.io is the company’s new browser-based collaborative content creation platform currently in general release. elevate.io is built using Blackbird’s core technology and is aimed at professional teams and the fast growing Creator Economy.
Blackbird plc also licences its core video technology, under its ‘Powered by Blackbird’ licensing model, enabling video companies to accelerate their path to true cloud business models.
