About Sync.Land
Clearing a track should take minutes, not months.
Sync.Land is where filmmakers, game developers, podcasters and creators license original music straight from the people who made it. No aggregator sitting in the middle, no exclusive hold on anyone’s catalog, no waiting weeks on a clearance email. Artists set their own terms. Every license comes with a certificate you can hand to a producer, and can be anchored on Cardano for a record anyone can verify without going through us.
Which side of the marketplace are you on?
I need music for a project
Browse 765 tracks from 126 independent artists. Free Sync for creator-scale work, Commercial Sync from $49 for anything monetized. Preview full-length before you commit.
I make music
Listing is free. There is no subscription, no submission fee, and no exclusive hold on your catalog. You set your own prices, and you can pitch directly to open briefs from filmmakers and game devs.
What you actually get.
One marketplace, three ways to license, and a price you can read before you commit to anything. Nothing is quoted on request, and nothing changes once you are in the checkout.
Music licensing without the middleman.
Artists set their own terms. Licensees pick the tier that fits the project: Free Sync for creator-scale use (personal, education, UGC, podcasts, game jams), Commercial Sync from $49 for monetized professional projects, or Custom for broadcast, film, and brand campaigns. Full details on the licensing page.
Verification that does not run through us.
Your PDF certificate is the document a producer, festival or platform will ask for, and it is what every license ships with. On top of that, Sync.Land integrates with Cardano: a license can be recorded as a CIP-25 token, which is a timestamped, tamper-evident entry anyone can look up on Cardanoscan. It is independent evidence of what was issued and when, sitting somewhere we do not control.
Artists keep control.
Licensing revenue routes to the artist through Stripe or PayPal payout. No PRO middleman, no month-long escrow, no exclusive assignment. What you upload stays yours.
Briefs, not just a catalog.
Filmmakers, studios and agencies post what a project needs (genre, mood, budget, deadline) and artists pitch tracks straight back. Free to post, and we review every brief before it goes live. See the brief board.
What it costs to be an artist here.
Nothing, until you get paid. No listing fee, no subscription, no minimum catalog size, and no charge for keeping your music here.
Upload, free.
Create an account, accept the terms, upload your masters. Set your own price per track and choose which tiers you will offer. You can pause or remove any song at any time.
Get found, or go pitch.
Your tracks enter the searchable catalog for filmmakers and game devs. You can also pitch them directly against open briefs from people who are actively looking.
Get paid when a license sells.
Our platform fee comes out of the sale, never out of your pocket, and you are paid through Stripe or PayPal. Your public performance, mechanical and neighboring rights stay yours, and you keep your Spotify, your Bandcamp and anywhere else you are already distributed.
What we will not do.
Four commitments, written down so you can hold us to them. If a change would break one of these it does not ship, whatever it would have done for the numbers.
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Artists set their own price. Nobody here decides what your music is worth. You set the price on your own catalog, and we don’t discount it, bundle it into an all-you-can-eat subscription, or route it through an aggregator that pays out in fractions of a cent.
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Non-exclusive by default. Keep your Spotify. Keep your Bandcamp. Keep your BroadJam. We only ask for the sync grant we actually license, not the rest of your catalog rights.
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Proof you can check without asking us. Where a license is anchored on Cardano, the CIP-25 record captures the fact of issuance: who, what, which tier, and when, verifiable by anyone and independent of our database. The signed license is the legal instrument. The on-chain record is the receipt that cannot be quietly back-dated or edited later, by us or by anyone.
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Clarity over ambiguity. Fine print that means “we can change our mind later” is a bug. Our licenses define specific numbers, specific dollar thresholds, specific attribution strings. Cheaper to trust, harder to abuse.
Who is behind it.
A working musician who writes the code. No investors, no growth targets handed down from anyone, no exit plan. Everything on this site was built by someone who puts out records and has been on the other side of a licensing deal.
Founder · Sync.Land
Ian McCullough, a.k.a. Cullah
Milwaukee-based artist and developer. Seventeen studio albums over twenty years under the name Cullah, one released every year on his birthday. Wrote the Sync.Land platform from the ground up because the licensing tools available to indie artists were either predatory, opaque, or both.
Get in touch.
Music supervisor with a placement question, artist thinking about joining the roster, journalist writing about the platform, or someone who spotted a bug. We read every message.
Prefer email? info@sync.land. For copyright notices, see our copyright and takedown policy.
Funded in public. Built in the open.
You do not have to take our word for any of this. Both of these go to places we do not control.
Grant funded, milestone by milestone.
Sync.Land is built under a Project Catalyst grant, voted on by the Cardano community. Funding is released against milestones, and each one is submitted with its evidence and reviewed by an independent team before the next is paid.
The milestone record is public: what was promised, what was delivered, what was approved, and when.
The code is public.
Marketplace internals stay private, but the parts you would need in order to check our work, or to build against us, are open and licensed for reuse.
The parent company
Sync.Land is operated by Awen LLC.
606 E Juneau Ave, Unit #511176, Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA
Awen is a small Milwaukee-based studio that builds tools for independent musicians. Sync.Land is our licensing marketplace. We also run Valt, a platform for tokenized fan collectibles and superfan drops on the same Cardano rails.
No investors, no growth-hacking mandate. We ship what artists actually need.