Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- Lickd
- Site
- lickd.co
- Social
- @getlickd
Light Listening is a curated streaming service for relaxing tracks and easy listening. With Unchained Music, artists can distribute their songs, expand their reach, and grow their audience worldwide.
Lickd is a UK based music licensing platform designed to help content creators legally use mainstream music in their videos. Founded in 2016 by Paul Sampson, a former music supervisor with over 20 years of experience in the industry, Lickd aims to democratize music for creators worldwide. The platform offers a vast catalogue of over 1.4 million tracks, including music from renowned artists like The Weekend, Ariana Grande, Coldplay, and Justin Bieber. Lickd's mission is to provide creators with the ability to use high quality music without the risk of copyright claims or demonetization. The platform integrates directly with YouTube's Content ID system to ensure that creators' videos are protected from unauthorized claims.
Five questions, answered for this platform specifically.
Lickd provides a licensed music library designed specifically for online creators, allowing YouTubers, streamers, and social media producers to use commercial tracks in their content without copyright claims or demonetization issues.
Labels and distributors deliver audio, metadata, and rights information to Lickd, who then clears the content for use under its creator licensing model. Once processed, tracks become available for creators to license through the Lickd platform.
Lickd is widely used by YouTubers, influencers, gaming content creators, and brands that need legal access to commercial music. It enables creators to monetize videos without copyright blocks or takedown risks.
Yes. Lickd requires detailed metadata, including rights ownership, artist credits, genre tags, and licensing details, so creators know exactly what they’re allowed to use. This also ensures accurate reporting and royalty allocation.
Royalties come from license purchases made by creators. Lickd pays rights holders according to track usage and licensing agreements, with revenue distributed through the label or distributor that provided the music.
Set the release up in the app and it goes to this platform with the rest of them, delivered to spec and checked by a person first.
Upload the release yourself in the app, on the plan that fits, and send it to every store you want in one go.
Start DIYFor multi-release plans and label rosters, scoped with the services team before anything starts.
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