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.
This year’s Cannes Lions Festival saw R/GA’s Beats By Dr. Dre – 'The Game Before The Game' campaign pick up four prestigious awards. The advertisement features music from Universal Publishing’s very own Jamie N Commons as the young British singer-songwriter teamed up with American alt-rock group X Ambassadors.
As part of Gatorade's new 'Keep Sweating' campaign the isotonic drink giant has unveiled a new star-studded film featuring multiple tennis grand slam champion, Serena Williams, NFL's JJ Watt and 100m World Record holder Usain Bolt.
Second Coming is debbie tucker green’s feature film directorial debut. The story follows Jackie (Nadine Marshall), a middle-aged mum with a history of miscarriages whose family life is thrown into turmoil by the prospect of another child.
'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' is the story of perennial layabout Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), who wiles away his time making lo-fi parodies of art-house films with his best friend Earl (Ronald Cyler II). This is until Greg’s overbearing mother (Connie Britton) forces him to visit his terminally ill classmate Rachel (Olivia Cooke), a girl he barely knows. They hit it off as Greg’s monotone humour keeps her entertained.
Gabrielle Aplin's beautiful piano ballad, 'Salvation', has been used for the trailer of director Lee Toland Krieger’s new feature film – 'The Age of Adaline'.
M People, George Thororgood, Foo Fighters and more featured in Shaun the Sheep Movie. The film was made by Aardman Animations who created Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run.
McLaren have unveiled a campaign – created by VCCP and music supervised by Soho Music – to promote their new 675LT model, combining power and beauty in equal measure.
Boohoo have launched their ‘We Are Us’ campaign, encouraging everyone to become stylists of their own, sharing tips and ideas with fellow shoppers across social media.
With their typical nod to artists making waves at the moment, the global online fashion retailer’s latest online advertisement features Years & Years' current No. 1 single 'King'.
Ibeyi's ‘Oya’ and The Impossible Orchestra's adaptation of ‘God Only Knows’ both celebrated award wins at last nights Music + Sound Awards 2015. Ibeyi ‘Oya’ picked up an award for Best Sync / Use of Existing Music in a television program, single scene, for the programme Glue. Whilst The Impossible Orchestra's cover of The Beach Boys' ‘God Only Knows’ won best in the Re-Records + Adaptions category for the launch of BBC Music.
On February 14, together with the World Food Programme, UMPG's Swedish office helped Zlatan Ibrahimović play his most important game to date.
Underneath his sweater he had 50 new names tattooed. Names of people he’d never met, but still wanted to keep close. Names of some of the 805 million people suffering from hunger today.
These people don’t often make the front page, yet hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to health worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
This is a campaign from the World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 75 countries each year.
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