Artlist vs Epidemic Sound: Which is better? (AFTER 4 YEARS)

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So you’ve been bombarded with ads for both Artlist and Epidemic Sound, but which is better?
Well, we’ve literally spent around 4 years using both platforms, we’ve made close to 400 high-end YouTube videos using their music and SFXs that have gotten hundreds of millions of views, so we’ve got some strong opinions that you’re not going to hear anywhere else.
We first started on one of these platforms, used it for a year or two, and then had to switch to the other option because it just wasn’t cutting it.
And in this video you’re gonna find out exactly why! Both platforms will be linked below for you to check out
This is Content Capitalist, where we give you all the knowledge you need for this new age of content that we’re living in, and let’s get into it.

What you want from a copyright-free music library are songs that actually sound like real high-quality songs that you would hear on the radio or in a movie.
And we’re happy to report that both Artlist and Epidemic Sound both have super high quality music.
You’re not going to find any generic sounding songs on either of these platforms.
All the songs sound like they were created by real authentic musicians, unlike a lot of other copyright-free music platforms that just have terrible sounding music.
And you have unlimited downloads on both platforms, so no limits.
But where they differ is in how many songs they have in their library.
The Artlist library is much smaller than the Epidemic library with way less songs.
And you can clearly see that when you compare the tiny list of genres available on Artlist vs the giant list of genres available on Epidemic Sound
And this is the problem we ran into
When we first started going hard into YouTube and turned it into a full-time career, we started off using Artlist.
And it started off great, we were genuine fans of it. Like we mentioned, the songs they do have are amazing.
But since we make the same types of videos over and over again like most creators do, we found that after a year or two, we started having to reuse songs we’ve used already in previous videos, just because there weren't enough songs to choose from on Artlist.
This was our experience a few years ago so we would hope that Artlist has added more songs by now, but from the looks of it, the Artlist library still pales in comparison to Epidemic’s library, where it seems like there’s a genre for everything.
Once we switched over to Epidemic, we never ran into this problem again.
You get the same quality of songs, but just way more to choose from.
Epidemic Sound boasts that they have 40,000 tracks, while Artlist? They don’t even advertise how many tracks they have, probably because it’s not nearly as much.
So this one goes to Epidemic.
But music is just one part of the overall sound design of your videos. The other part that is just as important are the SFXs

For all of our time using Artlist, we don’t recall ever having any copyright issues using their stuff
You simply link your social media accounts under their Clearlist section in your settings and you’re good to go.
Epidemic Sound has also gone very smooth
On Epidemic, you also link your YouTube account or other social accounts under your account settings
And we’ve never had any issues up until recently, when a competitor music platform decided to submit a copyright claim on one of the songs we were using in one of our YouTube videos.

Which is really weird being that we got this song from Epidemic
Now this is not Epidemic’s fault, this random person’s claim was fraudulent because Epidemic owned the rights to this particular song
But luckily, all we had to do was email Epidemic about it, and they got back to us with a thorough reply as to what to do.

We sent them the link to the song we used from them, and they instructed us as to how to submit a counter notification letting YouTube and that claimant know that we have a license to use this song from Epidemic.
And that was that. Problem solved, good customer service experience, nothing to complain about.
Now let’s go onto the last piece of the puzzle: pricing

Now on the surface, Artlist might look like the more affordable option:
They’ve got a $10/mo plan, but that’s $10/mo billed annually, so you have to pay around $120 up front.
If you want to pay monthly, it will bump it up to $15/mo.
Which is fine, but at that rate, you might as well pay $18/mo Epidemic and get the larger library that we talked about
And if you want any of the better plans on Artlist, they’re all annual, while Epidemic has monthly options for everything