RenatoHorvath

I build networks, platforms and tools that connect music, film and creative industries across Europe.

Distributing culture since 2005

European music networks map

Budapest
Home base: sync agency, showcase festivals, and music-tech products
2004–

Places that shaped the work

Music sync supervision and licensing for film, television and global advertising campaigns
20 years placing music in film, TV and global ad campaigns
Eastern Europe's first sync licensing agency since 2012
Outdoor Act in Synch workshop in the Côa Valley, Portugal, Creative Europe music programme
Active Creative Europe consortium partner
Europe in Synch to Artistic Futures across a dozen countries
BUSH Budapest Showcase Hub music industry event stage and audience
Built BUSH into one of Eastern Europe's leading music showcase events
The relationships it created put regional tracks on Netflix
Karányi Sounds VST instrument plugins product interface
Grew a music software company from 6,000 to 100,000 customers
Karányi Sounds (VST instruments), in 3 years
Music Oracle sync fee calculator and clearance intelligence product
Music Oracle: sync fees and rights, answered before picture lock
Free calculator and fixed-price checks · 300+ clearances
Portrait of Renato Horvath, sync licensing consultant and Creative Europe consortium partner

ABOUT ME

I grew up on the outskirts of Budapest: concrete blocks, Western culture flooding in through whatever cracks it could find. If something didn't exist, you built it yourself or you did without. That instinct never left. I moved through film, music management, sync licensing, festival building, software, EU networks because I kept finding gaps that bothered me enough to do something about them. Twenty years in, the gaps are different. The habit is the same.

What I can help with

Partners & Clients

NetflixHBOL'Oréal ParisMagyar TelekomLidlGapCoca-ColaArtistic FuturesInk MusicDDB235Proton CinemaHOTSLinecheckUnison RightsFreibankMars MusicValuNodeEncertMermaids and Albatrosses

CONTACT

Twenty years of building things that didn't exist.
If you're working on a project that connects music, film, culture or technology, or building something that needs the right people around it, get in touch.

ren@eastaste.net

I read emails from the last line first. Lead with what you actually need and we'll get along fine.