Audio Network launches on-line music licensing at www.audiolicense.net

Audio Network today announced the launch of a new e-commerce module allowing producers of film, television programmes, videos and other media productions instant low cost access to their award winning music tracks.

Sixty world class composers and producers including Evelyn Glennie, Terry Devine-King and Chris Blackwell have spent the last two years creating the comprehensive new catalogue specifically for Audio Network to eliminate the costs and hassles of using high quality music.

Audio Network’s Managing Director, Robert Hurst said “Having so many of the world’s leading composers and producers as shareholders in our company allows us to offer great music tracks direct to our customers for global use at very competitive prices. Audio Network proves that low cost does not mean compromising on quality”

Andrew Sunnucks, Creative Director added “We specially commissioned the writing and recording of a brand new catalogue covering every style of music and built the advanced search functions at our web site www.audiolicense.net to help our customers save time searching through racks of outdated CDs. We also encourage our customers to call us to help them source a shortlist of appropriate tracks so that they can spend even more of their time on the creative processes”

Audio Network is not abandoning its CD music service and expects to offer both an on-line and CD based service for many years to come.

Regular users of music can save even more money by taking advantage of an introductory subscription licence rate still being offered by Audio Network to use as many tracks as they like from over fifty music CDs. A single payment of just £110 clears music in an entire production falling to £40 per production for regular users of music. This compares with £116 charged by traditional libraries to use just one 30 second music clip in an international television programme. A typical programme using 70 music clips can therefore save over £8,000 on a single programme.

Jeremy Kimberlin, Head of Music at Channel 4 commented "Audio Network is a wonderful idea that considerably cuts down the amount of hassle, admin and cost of using music. Having all the music cleared domestically and internationally at source is becoming more and more important for Producers, especially those in the business of reversioning programming for international distribution. Audio Network is the first company to make a serious attempt at resolving these problems.”

Audio Network’s fast growing music catalogue is being promoted alongside the prestigious sound effects from SoundStorm, the OSCAR winning Hollywood based sound designers. Audio Network announced the launch of the sound effects e-commerce module at www.audiolicense.net last quarter.

24th March 2003