AudioMicro Is Making Some Smooth Moves
Ryan Born, Founder of our local SoCal start-up AudioMicro, the Royalty Free music site, has just teamed up with The Hollywood Edge Sound Library. Giving them an extra 55,000 new sounds effects from major motion pictures that can now be part of your online show. AudioMicro has been killing it in the Royalty free music market and has come a long way in such a short time. You can see how they are making their way up with some of the biggest players in the industry in the graph below:
You can also checkout our interview with Ryan Born here just under a year ago.
Here is the press released provided by AudioMicro:
LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2009—AudioMicro.com, a crowd-sourced marketplace for royalty-free music and sound effects licensing, announces that its users can now download more than 55,000 sound effects from The Hollywood Edge, the world’s most widely used sound effects library. Consumers and professionals alike now have direct and immediate access to professional quality sound effects created by the Academy Award-winning sound studio Soundelux, whose credits include such films as Kill Bill, Braveheart and Fast and Furious. The Hollywood Edge and Soundelux are part of the CSS Studios group of companies.
“Teaming with The Hollywood Edge is a big step forward for us,” said AudioMicro Founder Ryan Born. “In addition to our superb collection of user-generated content, we can now deliver, on-demand, thousands of sounds created by the world’s most talented sound professionals. Our users will be excited by the unprecedented quality, size and scope of this collection.”
Under the terms of a new licensing agreement, AudioMicro members have access to The Hollywood Edge’s library of professional-grade sound effects royalty free and under the same pricing and terms as AudioMicro’s crowd-sourced sound effects. Prices for individual sound effects are as little as $1 per minute, while subscription packages start at just $9 per month. Users are permitted to use the content for all digital media, including websites, short online films, motion pictures, feature films, flash animations, radio advertisings, PowerPoint presentations, live performance, remixes and other purposes.
Historically, The Hollywood Edge library has been available only in the form of large sound effects packages aimed at the professional market. “AudioMicro provides a platform where users can download as little as a single sound effect and do so at an affordable price,” noted Lon Bender, Chief Creative Officer of CSS Studios. “We are very pleased by this opportunity to expand our digital downloading offering and to make our library accessible to a much wider spectrum of users.”
In addition to the alliance with The Hollywood Edge, AudioMicro recently redesigned its website to incorporate several ease-of-use capabilities, including advanced search features, customizable favorites lists, and embeddable tracks. Last month, AudioMicro announced the availability of its second iPhone app, AudioMicro Lite. AudioMicro Lite is a free app and includes over 50 royalty-free sound effects as well as a “Sneak Attack” feature that sets the iPhone to play a specified sound effect when the device is moved by an unsuspecting person. For 99 cents, users can upgrade to the full AudioMicro app, which includes over 500 professional sound effects.
