Use music in all your posts,

with the rights to back it.

Beam Cleared gives you a catalog of music your brand is licensed to use across organic and paid short-form video—cleared at the source, documented per work, and made by artists who want you using it.

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Free audit of your last 90 days plus a historical scan. No commitment.

Brand storytelling and music rights have merged.

The music in your feed is a rights decision.

Platform music libraries license sound for personal use. Brand accounts are commercial use. Detection vendors working for major rights holders now scan advertiser and brand content on short-form video channels specifically—and every post you publish with unlicensed music is a separate claim.

~2,000

Music copyright infringements detected per day

Roughly 700,000 a year, creating billions in exposure.

$750 → $150K

Statutory damages range,

per work

US copyright statutory damages run from a $750 floor to $150,000 for willful infringement, with settlements commonly landing near $30,000.

182

Reviewable music uses a year at one benchmarked brand

From The Beam's retail and apparel benchmark where the category mean was 22.

Two ways to get cleared music

Beam Cleared isn't software you use to manage clearance. We deliver the cleared music itself, along with the paperwork that proves it.

Lane One

Cleared Catalog

License a working catalog from The Beam's artist network and use it across everything you publish for the term. Music is output by mood, vibe, genre and energy—the way your editors actually think.

One agreement covers every post in your project
Organic and paid usage included in the base grant
Every work carries a version-specific Rights Passport
New drops added to your catalog through the term

Lane Two

Cleared Comissioned

Music written for your creative project. We run it as a Beam Challenge: artists compete to score your campaign, fans vote, and you get an original track plus the cultural moment around making it.

Original master and composition, cleared to your brief
Category exclusivity on commissioned work by default
The competition itself is publishable content
Artist promotion is contractual, not hoped for

Audit, match, clear, publish

Most brands don't know what they're exposed to until we show them. That's where every engagement starts.

01 Audit

We scan your short-form video output—a 90-day window plus a historical pass—and return what music you used, where it came from, how much of it was platform library audio, and how many reviewable uses you generate in a year.

02 Match

Your audit produces a sonic profile: genre mix, energy, how internet-native your sound is. We build your catalog against that profile, not against a generic stock-music taxonomy.

03 Clear

Our rights workflow validates identity and authority, reconciles ownership splits, checks audio provenance, and flags platform conflicts before anything reaches you. Each work ships green, amber or red—and only green enters your catalog.

04 Publish

Your team pulls tracks and posts. Every use is backed by a Rights Passport tied to that specific version, so when legal or a platform asks, the answer is a document rather than a search.

What the grant actually covers

The terms that usually cost brands a second negotiation are included

in our base offering.

Artists own the music
No buyouts and no transfer of ownership. You get the rights you need to use the music; the artist keeps the asset. That's why the supply keeps coming.

Paid media is included
Not an upgrade or a separate sync fee. If you can post it organically, you can put spend behind it. Boosting doesn't require a phone call.

A passport per work
Documentation is versioned to the exact master you're using. An edit, an alt mix or a stem gets its own record, so your evidence matches your post.

Why artists clear

their music with us

A cleared catalog is only as good as the music in it. Ours fills because the economics of being a new artist have collapsed, so brand budgets can fuel artist discovery.

32 → 13

First-time Hot 100 top-10 artists per year, early-2000s average versus 2021. It's harder than ever for new artists to break through.

65% → 75.8%

Growth of catalog share of US streams, 2020 to the first half of 2025. Streaming increasingly pays for old music.

$8.2B vs $7.5B

2025 catalog-rights acquisitions versus global label A&R and marketing spend. More money buying the past than funding the future.

Everything You Need to Know

Isn't the platform music library already licensed?

For personal accounts, largely yes. Commercial and brand accounts sit under different terms, and the commercial libraries platforms offer are narrower than what your editors reach for. The gap between what a brand posts and what a brand is licensed to post is the whole problem.

What does the audit actually tell us?

Share of posts using platform music versus original audio
Your annualized review surface — how many uses are reviewable in a year
Which rights holders appear in your historical output
How your sonic profile compares to others in your category

Can we start with one campaign instead of an annual grant?

Yes. A commissioned Beam Challenge can run as a standalone engagement, quoted per brief. Most brands start there or with the audit, then move to a catalog band once they see their volume.

Does this cover work our agencies publish?

It can. Bands are sized by cleared post volume across the accounts you name, so agency-published content sits under the same grant as long as it's declared. That's usually what pushes a brand into a higher band.

Do we own the music?

No, and you shouldn't want to. Ownership means administration, splits and long-tail liability. You get a documented right to use; the artist keeps the copyright. On commissioned work you also get category exclusivity.

What happens to what we've already posted?

The historical scan tells you what's out there. From there it's a business decision: leave it, take it down, or replace the audio. We'll show you the exposure and what each option costs — we're not your counsel, and we'll say so.

Start with what you've already published

We'll run the 90-day audit and the historical scan on your accounts and walk you through what we find. If the exposure isn't real, we'll tell you that too.

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