Are they just an expensive jolly? What’s the point?
The M&M Festival in Rome has just dismantled their last stage, kicking off the summer’s serious Festival and Conference season. 700+ delegates, 70+ speakers and a host of media company stars and luminaries congregated in the sumptuous Waldorf Astoria in Rome. ‘Round the coast in Cannes, the […]
The original London punk eyewitness
Our innovation wizard (and secret weapon) John Ingham had been working with me for two years before his secret was revealed: in 1976 he conducted the Sex Pistols’ first interview and spent the year championing the birth of Punk Rock. He also took a camera with him and photographed what is […]
Is the purpose of a commercial to sell product or win an award?
When Creative Directors at ad agencies set their hearts on a particular music copyright, it is very hard to shift them from an idea. Tell them no and they insist that the producer keeps going back until they hear YES.
As a Music Supervisor […]
It wasn’t until I started receiving ‘congratulations’ messages this week on Linked-in that I remembered it was 37 years ago that we set up soundlounge as the very first music licensing company in Europe.
It’s hard to conceive that back in 1980 nobody had any idea how to license a copyright for a commercial, let alone […]
Pepsi are known for their large-scale production, global campaigns featuring high profile celebrities. Their newest commercial is no different, with Pepsi recruiting one of the biggest supermodels of the last couple of years, Kendall Jenner.
Jenner happily shared the clip of her latest feature on Twitter with a simple ‘Out now!’ before heading to bed, with […]
‘Soundalike’ and ‘Musicologist’. Two words that, as a Music Supervisor, generally fill me with dread. This is especially disconcerting on a Monday morning, when everyone from an advertising agency has been busy in the recording studio over the weekend. And when these two words are used in the same sentence, my heart drops.
‘Soundalike’ and ‘Musicologist’ […]
“If it’s trending on Twitter then it must be true…”
Sorry to have tell you Kellyanne, but ‘fake news’ has been around for hundreds of years. Then, somebody in a village, (possibly also with too much time on their hands) made up a story about a lord or a group of people or an individual, who […]
If We Hear It Enough Times It Must Be True
In this age of The White House ‘post truths and alternative facts’ it feels like permission to exaggerate, or simply looking at things in another way is becoming the norm. As Music Supervisors we hear so many ‘alternative facts’ about music licensing that we couldn’t resist […]
In the 70’s Stephen King, Head of Global Planning at JWT, went about radically changing the way Agencies thought about developing an idea. Faced with new platforms and opportunities he appreciated that if brands were to differentiate themselves across all executions it would demand a deeper understanding of the meaning of a brand, how it […]
Professional musicians and songwriters have an innate talent for making connections and distilling a message into its essence. They are often dreamers and visionaries who operate on an emotional level – natural catalysts for expressing complex social issues in contemporary voice.
For the rest of us music is something that we often take for granted. We […]
