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It looks like 2025 is already over, and many things have happened this year. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of Freesound with a composition contest, a sound installation, and the Freesound Day, which featured talks from people from the Freesound community (the video recordings of the Freesound Day talks are already available!). In the midst of our celebration hangover, it is now time to compute some statistics to summarise 2025 in numbers. The post starts with some numbers and figures following the same post structure that we use every year, and ends with a section in which we analyse the types of sounds uploaded to Freesound using our new Broad Sound Taxonomy (which was introduced in 2025). Without further ado, the number of new sounds uploaded during 2025 has been of…

47,068 new sounds!

which corresponds to…

1494 hours of audio!

In terms of number of sounds, this is 9k less sounds compared to 2024, but in terms of duration, this is ~340 more hours. In fact, the average sound duration is significantly higher in 2025: 114 seconds (compared to 73 in 2024 and 101 in 2023). As usual, these statistics can vary from one year to the next and it does not necessarily mean that there’s a relevant pattern. The influence of individual users is easily significant on a site the size of Freesound.

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