
Explore music publishing and licensing basics, learn how publishers work, and discover how to monetize your songwriting through TV, film, and YouTube.
Discover how traditional music publishers place songs with artists, arrange co-writes, and run song camps, while sending briefs and collecting a percentage of royalties.
Music libraries are publishers where artists upload music and customers browse a catalog to buy tracks, typically around $19 each, driving volume over a single big placement.
Learn how to self-publish and secure placements for your music in film, TV, and documentaries by building a visible professional profile, networking, and pitching to artists and publishers.
Determine when to find a publisher by showing credible industry feedback, co-writing experience, upbeat market-ready songs with strong hooks and proper song forms, aligned to a target audience.
Explore how music licensing places your music in films, TV, gaming, and YouTube, turning streams and placements into income. Learn why licensing is a growing, exciting income stream for musicians.
Learn how music supervisors select tracks for film and TV, navigate rights, timing, and budgets, and pitch through agencies or pitching services using IMDb insights.
Explore online pitching services for music publishing and licensing placements, weighing joining fees and competition against real opportunities on platforms like Taxi, Music Gateway, and tracks and fields.
Use LinkedIn to find music placements by researching music supervisors and sending polite bios, then engage in groups, post regularly, and build endorsements and recommendations to boost placements.
Master tracks to broadcast standard for sync, ensuring clarity and tight vocal performance; compare mastered and unmastered tracks, and seek qualified audio feedback before submitting to publishers.
Learn realistic music publishing strategies—no magic quick fix—write commercially viable songs, produce to broadcast standard, pitch to the right publishers, and build a lasting network over time.
Understand how selected songs become publishable by pitching them to music supervisors and publishers for sync placements, using feedback to refine production and decisions about releases.
Explore organizations that help monetize music publishing and licensing, including the Musicians Union, performing rights organizations, and services like song evaluation, pitch-to-publishers, and contract review.
Learn how a UK music publisher builds a songwriter roster, pitches songs to labels and licensing opportunities, and fuels growth through songwriting camps across Europe, Asia, and Eurovision markets.
Interviews with pro songwriters reveal how collaboration, networking, and consistent songwriting practice help secure publishing deals and licensing placements, with insights from Universal publishing and Eurovision writing camps.
Apply the course insights on music publishing and licensing placements, share questions or feedback, and hear how others put the information into action after completing the course.
Do you write music but don't know how to get artists to record it or have it placed in film, TV, advertising etc?
If you have been writing and recording songs and you would like to start making money from them, this course is for you. Music publishing can seem hard to break into, but in this course you will find out that it’s possible for songwriters at various stages of their careers to have songs placed with artists and used in film, TV and other media by using online platforms and finding reputable companies in the music industry to work on your behalf. We will also look at self publishing. This is everything you need to know about music publishing in one place. The course has input form me as a published songwriter but also includes interviews with songwriters signed to universal and cool independents and a commercial pop publisher with international success .
Do you want to be a published songwriter but haven’t been sure how to have your songs published?
I am published songwriter named One to Watch twice by Nashville Songwriters Association International. I have been commissioned to write for reality TV graduates, written for up and coming artists, co-written with multi platinum writers and producers and my music has been used in documentaries and advertising. I would like to help you succeed in the music industry in doing what I do.
What We Will Discover
We will learn about the different kinds of music publishers and music publishing deals and their role in the music industry but more importantly we will learn how to apply this information to your goal of monetising your songwriting.
Topics include:
· Traditional Music Publishers
· Music Licensing Agencies
· Online Music Libraries
* Being paid royalties
· When to Find a Music
Publisher (assessing the commercial viability of your songwriting)
· How to Find a Music Publisher
· Self Publishing
· Finding and Building Relationships with Music Supervisors
· Pitching services and how to use them to maximum benefit
· Organisations to join who can help advance your songwriting career
After the course you will
· Be able to find the right publisher for you
· Be able to find sync (TV,film etc) opportunities
· Be able to efficiently make use of online pitching services
· Use platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter to find placements
· Understand how to become a published songwriter
Please Note: There are no 'hacks', shortcuts or insider tips that will help you succeed in publishing and licensing. There is a process which you need to commit to and your songs need to be written to commercial standard and recorded to broadcast standard. This course is for professionals with a business-like approach so ti wont suit you if you are looking for a quick fix.
If you want to start earning money from your music, please enroll now and I’m looking forward to joining you on your musical journey.