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title: "Epidemic Sound: search popularity and Share of Search in New Zealand"
description: "Epidemic Sound provides tools to license music for video and creative productions. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
canonical: "https://gobrandwave.com/demand/nz/brands/epidemic-sound"
publisher: "Brandwave"
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# Epidemic Sound: search popularity and Share of Search in New Zealand

Epidemic Sound provides tools to license music for video and creative productions. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Brand**: Epidemic Sound
- **Market**: New Zealand
- **Measured month**: Aug 2026
- **Share of Search among music licensing services**: 37.7%

## Where the brand sits

| Competitive set | Rank | Share of Search | Estimated monthly branded searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Music licensing services | 2 | 37.7% | 1.7K |

- [Music licensing services](/demand/nz/categories/nz-music-licensing-services)

## How has branded search demand for Epidemic Sound changed in New Zealand over the last 12 months?

- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, estimated monthly branded searches for Epidemic Sound in New Zealand rose from 1.4K to 1.7K.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Epidemic Sound’s estimated Share of Search among music licensing services in New Zealand increased from 27% to 37.7%.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Epidemic Sound’s estimated Share of Search among music licensing services in New Zealand peaked at 43.2% in July 2026 and was lowest at 27% in October 2025.

## How did search popularity change for New Zealand music licensing services in August 2026?

- In August 2026, Artlist gained estimated Share of Search among music licensing services in New Zealand, from 46.4% to 51.3%.
- In August 2026, Musicbed gained estimated Share of Search among music licensing services in New Zealand, from 6.2% to 7%.
- In August 2026, Epidemic Sound lost estimated Share of Search among music licensing services in New Zealand, from 43.2% to 37.7%.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for Soundstripe in New Zealand fell 31.6% over 11 measured months, from 190 to 130 in August 2026.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for PremiumBeat in New Zealand fell 28.6% over 11 measured months, from 70 to 50 in August 2026.

## Historical estimated branded-search demand

| Month | Competitive set | Estimated monthly branded searches | Share of Search | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | Music licensing services | 1.4K | 27% | 2 |
| Nov 2025 | Music licensing services | 1.4K | 30.9% | 2 |
| Dec 2025 | Music licensing services | 1.4K | 32.7% | 2 |
| Jan 2026 | Music licensing services | 1.4K | 31.9% | 2 |
| Feb 2026 | Music licensing services | 1.5K | 34.7% | 2 |
| Mar 2026 | Music licensing services | 2K | 35.5% | 2 |
| Apr 2026 | Music licensing services | 1.6K | 34.5% | 2 |
| May 2026 | Music licensing services | 1.7K | 36.7% | 2 |
| Jun 2026 | Music licensing services | 2K | 41.3% | 2 |
| Jul 2026 | Music licensing services | 1.9K | 43.2% | 2 |
| Aug 2026 | Music licensing services | 1.7K | 37.7% | 2 |
| Sep 2026 | Music licensing services | — | — | — |

## How is Epidemic Sound measured?

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Epidemic Sound’s name. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for these branded terms can be used to understand whether interest in the brand is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- “epidemic sound”
- “epidemic sound music license”
- “epidemic sound near me”
- “epidemic sound royalty free music”
- “epidemicsound”
- “epidemicsound com”

## Which music licensing services compete with Epidemic Sound?

- [Artlist](/demand/nz/brands/artlist): Head-to-head: /demand/nz/compare/artlist-vs-epidemic-sound
- [Musicbed](/demand/nz/brands/musicbed): Head-to-head: /demand/nz/compare/epidemic-sound-vs-musicbed
- [Soundstripe](/demand/nz/brands/soundstripe): Head-to-head: /demand/nz/compare/epidemic-sound-vs-soundstripe
- [PremiumBeat](/demand/nz/brands/premiumbeat): Head-to-head: /demand/nz/compare/epidemic-sound-vs-premiumbeat

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Cite this page

Brandwave. "Epidemic Sound: search popularity and Share of Search in New Zealand". https://gobrandwave.com/demand/nz/brands/epidemic-sound

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