Music for ads you can legally use

Why stock music stopped working

Subscription libraries solved the legal problem and created a creative one. The same few thousand beds are used by everyone, so your ad sounds like the ad before it and the one after it.

Independent music sits in a different place: it has a voice, an artist behind it, and it has not been used on a hundred competing campaigns. It is also cheaper than most people assume, because you are licensing one campaign rather than renting a whole catalogue. Stock, indie or AI music compares the three routes side by side.

What a Melody licence covers

Each licence is written for how brands actually work:

• One creative concept, including every cutdown, aspect ratio and language version of it
• Worldwide use across paid social, digital, YouTube, web and owned channels
• A perpetual term for that creative — nothing expires mid-campaign
• Both master and publishing cleared in the same transaction
• A PDF certificate with the exact track, artist, ISRC and issue time, ready for legal or a platform dispute

Hear it on your edit first

The hardest part of choosing music is imagining it against the picture. Upload your cut, drop a track on it, and watch the real thing before you decide. Your video stays on your device until you license.

That is deliberately available without an account, because picking music is not a decision anyone should make from a waveform.

What it costs, honestly

A traditional sync deal for a social ad usually lands between $500 and $5,000 per side, and takes weeks. A recognisable recording costs far more. That maths only works for a hero campaign.

Per-track licensing exists for everything else: testing five music directions, refreshing a fatigued creative, or scoring the twenty pieces of content that never got a music budget in the first place.