A dizzying array of stock content is available on the internet today, both for individual users and businesses\/teams. While it\u2019s great to have so many options, the sheer volume of choices out there can make it difficult to determine which is best for your specific needs. In this article, we\u2019ll be taking you through the difference between Storyblocks vs Epidemic Sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That way, you have a clear idea of what each service has to offer before signing up for a paid subscription. Let\u2019s dive in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Epidemic Sound and Storyblocks are two popular platforms for creatives seeking royalty-free music, sound effects, and much more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Storyblocks is a leading stock media platform offering access to over 10 million high-quality, 100% human-made stock media assets.<\/a> It\u2019s known for its user-friendly website, comprehensive plans, and industry-leading licensing. Its unlimited download plans give subscribers access to a massive library of 8K, 4K and HD footage<\/a>, video templates, music and sound effects, and photos, vectors and illustrations. It works with award-winning artists across the world to create the assets in their library, including a dedicated initiative called Re: Stock<\/a>, which aims to increase representation in stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Epidemic Sound provides royalty-free music tracks and sound effects for brands and individual creators. Its catalog of more than 300,000 assets is continually expanding as the platform collaborates directly with artists and composers to grow its library. It also offers an unlimited stock audio subscription<\/a> for a low monthly fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that you have an idea of what both platforms have to offer, let\u2019s take a deeper dive into the options for individual creators. We\u2019ll cover business and enterprise plans in the next section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When choosing a stock media subscription, the licensing options a platform offers is one of the most important elements to consider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks\u2019 individual license<\/a> covers unlimited, worldwide distribution for print, digital, and production, spanning both commercial and personal projects. It covers one YouTube channel ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Epidemic Sound\u2019s license for its Creator plan includes monetization for one channel per platform, whether social media<\/a>, websites, or podcasts. Their license for their Pro plan includes everything with Creator, but allows you to monetize 3 channels per platform and also includes licensing for digital ads as well as freelancer client work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anything you download from either Storyblocks or Epidemic Sound (while your subscription is active) is covered forever, the license will never expire. Content available in both platforms\u2019 libraries are royalty-free, eliminating the requirement for tracking different licenses for every asset or project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indemnification functions as insurance that any stock content downloaded is safe to use across all personal or commercial projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks\u2019 individual plans offer indemnification for individual creators up to $20,000. This protects you from any third-party claiming the content you download from Storyblocks infringes on their intellectual property rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Epidemic sound does not currently offer indemnification with their individual plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks content can be used for client projects under an individual license, but must be incorporated into an original project, or the content must be modified in a meaningful way that makes it distinct from the original. Sharing or selling the unedited, original stock assets is not <\/em>permitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Epidemic Sound\u2019s license for its personal subscription is not approved for business or client work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When it comes to content, Epidemic Sound, as its name implies, focuses primarily on audio content like music and sound effects. Storyblocks\u2019 content library contains a vast assortment of over 10 million pieces of content both audio and visual, with new assets being added every week. Every asset in their library is created by an artist, and every download helps support their work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Epidemic Sound has over 50,000+ music tracks, while Storyblocks offers 60,000+ music tracks across a diverse range of genres, themes, and moods. Storyblocks has more than 115,000 professionally recorded sound effects<\/a>, while Epidemic Sound has over 200,000, including ones from Soundly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks\u2019 Essentials plan doesn\u2019t include access to their audio library, but music<\/a> and sound effects are included with ULAA plans. All of Epidemic Sound\u2019s plans include both music and SFX. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks\u2019 music library is 100% exclusive, making copyright strikes less of an issue. They also have their own exclusive Storyblocks Label<\/a>, which features artists outside of typical stock music contributors like Bobby Hawk, a Grammy-winning musician who\u2019s recorded with Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Epidemic Sound does not offer stock video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks, however, has a library of over 10 million high-quality stock video assets, including 8K, 4K and HD footage and motion backgrounds<\/a>. All of Storyblocks\u2019 plans<\/a> include access to their full video library, including 8K, 4K, and HD. Storyblocks also offers videos in both horizontal and vertical orientations, making it easy to create content for any channel or format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks provides over 42,000 pre-made and fully customizable templates<\/a> for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, and Apple Motion across all of their plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Epidemic Sound does not offer video templates with any of its subscription plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks\u2019 library contains 1,000,000+ royalty-free photos, vectors, illustrations, and snapshots for use, while Epidemic Sound does not offer stock images. Storyblocks\u2019 image library is available with all of their plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All plans from both Storyblocks and Epidemic Sound offer unlimited downloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks only has the Adobe Creative Cloud plugin<\/a> for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, available with all of their plans. The Storyblocks plugin brings its entire stock library directly into your editor, and includes access to your on-site folders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Epidemic Sound has plugins for Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition that lets you search its music and SFX library, as well as bringing in voiceover content. Epidemic Sound also has a plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio. Their plugins are available with all of their plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storyblocks\u2019 individual subscription plans include access to Maker, its baked-in, easy-to-use video editor<\/a> that directly connects to its entire library and has a selection of pre-made templates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also access Storyblocks\u2019 AI Toolkit<\/a> with their individual plans, which include monthly credits. With the Essentials plan, you get access to the Video Editing tool, which allows you to make changes to any footage clip in the Storyblocks library using text prompts and Runway\u2019s Aleph model, along with their AI Video Generator and AI Image Generator. With their ULAA plan, you get access to all three of those tools as well as AI Voiceover<\/a>, which allows you to generate professional-sounding voices using ElevenLabs technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Storyblocks, you also have their AI-powered conversational search tool<\/a>, which lets you describe what kind of asset you\u2019re looking for in your own words. From there, it searches our library for you, pulling the best results, and you can easily refine your search through a back-and-forth dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Epidemic Sound offers the option to try its voiceover capabilities (with limited credits), blending AI with professionally recorded voice tracks. They also have an Adapt tool, which lets you customize music from their library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking at other stock media subscriptions? Check out our comparison posts on<\/em> Epidemic Sound vs Artlist vs Storyblocks<\/a>,<\/em> Motion Array vs Storyblocks<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Envato Elements vs Storyblocks<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Pond5 vs Storyblocks<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Shutterstock vs Storyblocks<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Storyblocks vs Adobe Stock<\/em><\/a>, and<\/em> Storyblocks vs Artlist<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n That was a lot of information \u2013 let\u2019s recap some of the most important points to consider when deciding which platform best meets your needs as an individual creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEpidemic Sound vs Storyblocks individual plans<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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