Audio Network Provide Company-Wide License to RDF Media Group

Audio Network Provide Company-Wide License to RDF Media Group

Audio Network, one of the UK’s fastest growing music providers, has been chosen by RDF Media Group to provide music to all production companies under the RDF umbrella. The company-wide license will allow members of the RDF Media Group to access the Audio Network music catalogue and use music for a fraction of the cost of traditional music deals.

Audio Network’s unusual licensing model allows users to clear all their music in perpetuity for the world and for all platforms. It is this flexibility which appealed to the RDF Media Group, as it grows from strength to strength domestically and internationally.

“With eight content production companies in the RDF Media Group, and a demand for 360 programming it makes perfect sense from a business and creative perspective to give all of them access to Audio Network. It means more freedom and less grief for our producers because all the music and sound is approved for use anywhere in the world and on any platform – for a growing international business that’s invaluable,” Said Matthew Frank, Managing Director of RDF Rights.

Audio Network has worked with Oscar and BAFTA winning sound supervisors, composers and musicians to create an online library of music and sound for the broadcast and film industry. The library contains over 10,000 tracks and 50,000 sound effects for use, and is easily searchable by online at www.audiolicense.net.

The Company’s licensing model continues to capture the imagination of the production community by providing world class music, written by many famous names, without the usual costly and time consuming clearance procedures of the traditional clearance procedure.

Andrew Sunnucks MD of Audio Network said, “We’re really very pleased with the RDF deal, this is the first license of its kind and breaks new ground for us. Audio Network was created to embrace global distribution and new platforms, and take the traditional hassle out of buying music tracks - without sacrificing the quality of music. And it’s great that RDF recognizes the benefits that this can deliver across the whole group.”

Audio Network was launched in 2001 by Andrew Sunnucks and Robert Hurst, both ex-Directors of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers. Recognising both the existing difficulty with licensing and emerging new media usages, Sunnucks and Hurst were the first to license music on this basis in a serious attempt to make tracks easy and cheap to use around the world.