Securing Music for Commercial Use with Scout Music
Finding and licensing music for commercial use has some challenges, but these challenges can be navigated with an experienced music provider. Licensing a known / hit song Working with a music supervisor is the key to securing the proper rights and negotiating
Scout Music’s Ad & TV Music Trends for Winter 2019
Scout Music's latest rundown of what our clients are loving as we go through Winter 2019. A good mix of big pop bangers, new directions and rediscovered faves. 1 Cosmo Sheldrake "Come Along" 2 Meghan Trainor & Lunchmoney Lewis "I Love Me" 3 Gnarls
Commercial & TV Trends for Fall 2018
Here is our latest rundown of what our music licensing clients are feeling as we step into Fall 2018. 1 Anderson .Paak “Come Down” Serious understated funk. 2 Dej Loaf + Leon Bridges “Liberated” Sparse, hypnotic and modern. 3 Portugal. The Man “Feel it Still” The
Music-Licensing Companies Help You Avoid 5 Common Mistakes
Ad agencies and film production companies move quickly. Licensing the right song or instrumental directly from rightsholders can be a challenge, and working with experienced music supervisors and music licensing companies can be an advantage. Do these 5 things to avoid common
Music Design Lab Challenge #2: Classic Jukebox Song
Thanks for your interest in the Scout Music Design Lab. Challenge #2: Create a classic and timeless song that will never get old. Creative Brief: A classic jukebox song with male or female vocals. Like a lost song from the late 50s / early
Music Design Lab Challenge #1: Sung Hip Hop
Thanks for your interest in the Scout Music Design Lab. Challenge #1: Create a fun, modern hip hop / pop crossover banger with a sung hook. Creative Brief: Modern, simple mainstream hip hop pop with sung hooks are always in demand for ad, tv and movie
Introducing The Scout Music Design Lab
Scout Music has been fortunate to make music for ads, tv shows and film since 2005. We've created and licensed music for brands such as Levi’s, Old Spice, BMW, McDonald’s, Google, Nike, Nintendo & Renault, and TV shows like The
Standard Guitar Store Drumbeat 1a
In the late 90s, if you walked into any Guitar Center or any local music store in America, you'd hear it. That beat. That terrible terrible beat. Standard Rock Drumbeat 1a, with varying degrees of forgettable funk thrown in. I began to hate
Scout + Adobe get the nod from WEBBY
Through his pictures, award-winning photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier provides a much-needed window into the often misunderstood American heartland. Frazier documents the lives of his fellow Midwesterners—their struggles and joys, their choices and their fates—as their towns and lifestyles undergo transformation. Scout
Good Luck Getting This Jingle Out Of Your Head…
Duncan Channon and client, Kettle Brand were developing an irreverent campaign for the beloved chip makers with a counter culture legacy, so they reached out to Scout for help crafting a catchy 80's style jingle. We had a blast composing