Universal Music Publishing’s Film & TV Department creates opportunities for and licenses our catalogue of songs to film, television, advertising, computer games and stage productions: what is often referred to as ‘synchronisation’. We work closely with each writer to support their creative endeavours and both promote and protect their music at every stage of their career. The UK office has a 12 strong Film & TV team working alongside similar specialist departments in our offices around the world. Covering everything from a song’s first play on UK TV to a major US hit series or scoring original film music, we always treat every use of our artists’ music with equal importance.
BBC One has launched it’s Christmas 2017 short film ‘The Supporting Act’ that will run throughout the Christmas period on the channel. The soundtrack for the campaign has been provided by Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson with 'Symphony', and it was specially re-arranged by the award-winning producer Steve Mac.
UMPG’s Film & TV team have placed songs from our catalogue in a wide range of Christmas commercials this year – our writers are taking over your TV.
Years & Years have collaborated with H&M and the very talented director Baz Luhrmann(Romeo + Juliet, The Great Gatsby) to write the song ‘Hypnotised’ for the campaign film for H&M’s forthcoming collaboration with Erdem.
Universal Music Publishing have been presented with the Sync team: Publisher award in recognition of syncs including the John Lewis Buster the Boxer Christmas campaign featuring 'One Day I’ll Fly Away'.
Finalists have been announced for the Music Week Sync Awards, which returns for its fourth year this October and UMPG have been nominated for eleven awards in a variety of categories.
Isabelle Summers writes theme song 'Was It Love' for new Sky Atlantic drama and Now TV show Riveria
In June, UMPG teamed up with Clean Cut Kid to host a session with long standing agency partners Havas. The four-piece from Liverpool took time out of their busy summer festival schedule to play an array of their awesome tracks to the Havas audience, including most recent single ‘Vitamin C’ from debut album ‘Felt’.