Sync Licensing

PLP 078: Keith Piazza on Music Clearance and Working for Universal Music Group

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Keith Piazza is an associate manager at Universal Music Group (UMG) where he handles film and TV clearance. Over the last five years he has worked with some of the biggest artists in the industry helping them negotiate fees to license their music for TV, movies, and video games. In this episode of the podcast Keith offers networking tips for landing your dream job, talks about what it’s like working for a major record label, and discusses trends in music licensing.

PLP 065: Sync Night with Michael Elsner

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Back in mid-February I attended a virtual sync licensing meeting hosted by Dani Felt (who you may remember from episodes 55 and 56). Dani brought in Michael Elsner as the guest speaker. Michael has had over 2,000 placements of original music in TV, film, and commercials over the last 15 years. He gave a terrific talk about sync licensing and also runs a course at MasterMusicLicencing.com. Michael offered so much actionable advice, I had to share what I learned.

PLP 055: Dani Felt on Sync Licensing, Mindset, and Music

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Today is part one of our interview with Dani Felt, a Philadelphia-born singer-songwriter and founder of Music Industry Mastery. Dani is an artist empowerment coach which merges musician coaching with creative consulting. Her business helps artists with making more money, music sync licensing, artist development, music promotion, creating animated music videos, music production, videography, and more. As a singer Dani released her debut single Queen in August 2020. Queen is a dark pop hit with a powerful, seductive vibe which quickly racked up thousands of streams on YouTube and Spotify and has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from Underground Music Collective and Nashville.com.

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