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.
To mark the release of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Alicia Keys, Netflix and TV production company Shondaland created a 74 piece Global Orchestra made up entirely of women of colour to perform a rendition of “If I Ain’t Got You”, on the 20th anniversary of the song.
Florence + The Machine “Dog Days Are Over” features in the soundtrack for the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Following its appearance in the film, the song earned its biggest streaming day of all time on Spotify, nearly 15 years after its debut.
Five songs from UMPG artists and writers feature in Rain Dogs - a brilliant new dark comedy created, written and executive produced by Cash Carraway for BBC One and HBO.
Alicia Keys’ uplifting anthem ‘Girl on Fire’ provides a powerful soundtrack to Lloyds Bank’s latest advert.
Marks & Spencer use Harry Styles’ joyous ‘Treat People With Kindness’ in their 2022 Christmas advert, making it the perfect soundtrack to accompany the campaign focused on gift-giving.
The latest John Lewis advert features ‘La La Lu’ by Peggy Lee (UMPG writers Peggy Lee and Francis J. Burke). The emotive spot, under the strapline ‘for all life’s moments’ – follows a new Dad and his daughter through the some of the key moments of early parenthood.
Masked Wolf – “Astronaut in The Ocean” (Alok Remix) (UMPG writer Alok Petrillo) provides the soundtrack to Hugo Boss’ campaign for their latest clothing collection, under the tagline #BeYourOwnBOSS.
The latest advert for the Volkswagen Atlas features Doris Day’s recording of Irving Berlin’s “It’s A Lovely Day Today”.
Apple’s new advert to promote AirPods' new Spatial Audio technology features a song from Harry Styles’ No.1 album 'Harry’s House'. 'Music For a Sushi Restaurant' provides the soundtrack to the colourful spot, which revives Apple’s iconic silhouette campaign, originally launched in 2003 to promote the iPod.
