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Featured · Dec 3, 2025
Music Clearance Without the Friction
Music Clearance & Sync Licensing for Ads, Trailers & Games Music clearance is invisible when it works. When it doesn't, it stops everything. We hear this story many times. A creative team finds the perfect track....
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Sep 5, 2025
Internship
Allround Internship: Marketing / Production / A&R Clear Music is on the hunt for a dynamic intern ready to kickstart their career in the music-for-media industry. As an integral member of our team, you'll engage in a...
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Oct 28, 2024
The MUDD Show Recap
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Sep 26, 2024
The MUDD Show
The MUDD Show at Westerhuis This October, as the autumn leaves begin to turn, the Amsterdam Dance Event heats up the city. Clear Music is partnering with The MUDD Show to set up a not-to-be-missed event in the creative...
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Jun 26, 2024
Office Warming Recap
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Jun 26, 2024
Cannes Lions 2024
Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity Recap Remote working has never been so much fun! As we promenaded the Croisette, among our favorite Cannes Lions 2024 moments were: getting tattooed at the Pinterest Manifestival,...
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May 14, 2024
New Office
English Version (scroll down for Dutch) Press Release Clear Music Expands to New Headquarters in the Heart of Amsterdam Amsterdam, May 14, 2024 – Clear Music, the full-service music agency founded three years ago by...
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Mar 26, 2024
Office Warming B2BxB2B
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Sep 22, 2023
ADE: club bitbird with Clear Music & Young Dogs
2023 marked the return of club bitbird Amsterdam Dance Event, this year in collaboration with Clear Music and Young Dogs! Here's a recap of a night filled with groundbreaking electronic music with DJ sets from Tisoki...
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Sep 12, 2023
The Music of Gamescom Opening Night
The Music of Gamescom Opening Night Live Now that September has started and every gamer in the world has sunken their teeth deep into either Starfield or Baldur’s Gate 3, we thought we’d take a closer look at the...
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Standing Out Using Sonic Branding for your Business
Sonic Branding for Businesses 101 In today’s highly competitive business landscape, brands continuously seek innovative ways to differentiate themselves and leave a lasting impression on their target audience. While...
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May 31, 2023
Believe
Clear Music partners with Believe We’re excited to announce that we’re partnering up with Believe for sync representation in the Benelux. The creative output from the Believe artists is unmatched and their songs have...
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Apr 5, 2023
Copyright Infringement in Pop Music
Copyright Infringement in Pop Music All music lovers know the feeling of déjà vu when listening to a new song - when we're absolutely sure we've heard the song before, even if we’re listening to something for the very...
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Mar 6, 2023
Famous Re-Recordings in Trailers
Re-Recording Famous Evergreen Songs for Your Entertainment Trailer Creating a buzzworthy entertainment trailer is no easy feat. One effective way to make your trailer memorable and impactful is to use a famous evergreen...
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Feb 21, 2023
Sample Interpolations
SAMPLE INTERPOLATIONS EXPLAINED Connect to your customers building on a known copyright At Clear Music, we help clients with the ins-and-outs of the music industry on a daily basis. As a music clearance company, we...
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Feb 2, 2023
bitbird
Clear Music partners with bitbird It's an honour and a pleasure to announce that we’re partnering up with bitbird for sync representation. Founded by San Holo in 2014 out of a need for more creative freedom, bitbird is...
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Jan 24, 2023
Nine And A Half
Clear Music Amsterdam partners up with Nine And A Half for Sync Representation We’re more than excited to announce that we’re partnering up with Nine And A Half for sync representation. Nine And A Half is one of...
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Dec 19, 2022
Music Licensing 101
Clearing music rights can be a complex and time-consuming process, especially in today's fast-paced visual media landscape. With new music platforms emerging and an abundance of music to choose from, it can be difficult...
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Christmas Playlists For Advertising
Music for the holiday spirit It's thát time of year again, the holiday season is upon us and there’s no better moment than right now to start thinking about your Christmas campaigns and how to reach your audience in the...
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Sonic Branding according to Clear Music
Hearing Is Believing. Mattijs van Andel and Jarl Hector got talking at a Sony listening session in 2016. That same evening they attended Amsterdam Dance Event together. Yet the fact that their skillsets were a match...
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Sep 14, 2022
Gamescom '22 Recap
Our impressions and highlights Gamescom ‘22 is behind us and it was a blast! It was great to finally meet up with people in person after a long time of talking to everyone from the industry via computer screens. Between...
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Sep 8, 2022
Lemon Wax
Clear Music Amsterdam partners up with Lemon Wax for Mutual Sync Representation We’re very excited to announce that we’re partnering up with Lemon Wax for a mutual sync representation deal. When we met the Lemon Wax...
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Aug 18, 2022
The Future Of (Sonic) Branding
Your audience is listening, are you? A Tonal Shift There’s a major shift going in the world of branding and advertising, and it’s all about sound. Over the past decades, audio has become widely adopted as a highly...
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Jun 30, 2022
Our Favorite Syncs of 2022
Why sync works We've made it halfway through 2022, a year that’s marked by the pandemic slowly disappearing and life returning to normal. For us, it seemed like a perfect moment to take a breather and look back on our...
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Jun 8, 2022
Sonic Branding on TikTok
Why you should use TikTok for Sonic Branding and Audio Advertising To many working in the creative industry, TikTok might seem like the new platform that you are fully aware of, but aren’t actively using. And for those...
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Apr 11, 2022
Music Brief Essentials
How to write the perfect music brief? Writing a good music brief can be difficult. You may have the perfect idea for your project’s music in your head, but to communicate your vision to a music supervisor isn’t as easy...
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Mar 9, 2022
Old VS New Songs
Is old music ‘killing’ new music..? And if so, what does that mean for music in media and advertising? Last month, author Ted Gioia wrote a blog post titled ‘Is Old Music Killing New Music?’ in which he states that old...
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Mar 8, 2022
Women In Music
Happy International Women's Day 2022 From Clear Music! We're proud to represent great music by many amazing women and we want to celebrate today by highlighting those women and their art. Artists include Celine Cairo,...
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Dec 22, 2021
Powerful Trailer Music
Over the past ten years, it has become common for film- and video game trailers to be accompanied by a dramatic (or trailerized) version of a popular song. Remember the trailer for ‘The Social Network’ in 2010? That...
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Dec 6, 2021
MEAU
Clear Music brengt MEAU en Alzheimer Nederland samen voor akoestische cover ‘Samen Zijn’ in kerstcampagne. De kerstcampagne van Alzheimer Nederland wordt gekenmerkt door de klassieker ‘Samen Zijn’ van Willeke Alberti,...
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Oct 26, 2021
Clear Music on Sonic Branding
In short, a Sonic Brand is the entire spectrum of sounds that is connected to a brand, product or service. In most modern cases, this connection has been intentionally developed to help an audience associate those...
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Sep 13, 2021
Introducing: Abramo Abramo
INTRODUCING ABRAMO ABRAMO We are thrilled to introduce to you ABRAMO ABRAMO, the new music alias from multi instrumentalist and all-round Amsterdam based producer Bram Jacques Kniest. With his absolute killer of a...
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Jul 28, 2021
Epic Trailer Soundtracks
Here at Clear Music we represent an ever growing catalogue of world class music curated specially for sync purposes. So whether you need epic, dramatic, tense, suspenseful or subtle; we've got your back. Our music...
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Jun 14, 2021
Hello World!
picture: Sabine Metz PRESS RELEASE: Clear Music, een nieuw, helder geluid in merk- en medialand Oprichters Jarl en Mattijs verbinden merken en filmmakers met hun publiek door middel van de kracht van muziek Jarl Hector...
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