Can you imagine turning on the TV and hearing one of your tracks playing over the hottest Netflix series? Or imagine seeing an ad for the next Tesla and your song is the soundtrack?!
That’s what the music industry calls a sync — and a very good one at that.
Sync — short for “synchronisation” — refers to music being synchronised with visual images.
There’s thousands of these opportunities signed every day, from video-games, to films, to commercials and TV. But this doesn’t happen unless you have a publishing deal or similar representation.
The problem facing fledgling musicians is that Publishing deals are few and far between — and they’re increasingly hard to come by. Sure, there are companies who will allow you to pay a premium for a chance at these opportunities, but the reality is that the average songwriter on these platforms makes far less than their subscription cost.
Introducing Vampr Publishing — a revolutionary kind of sync representation
◦ It’s non-exclusive
◦ It’s opt-in only / cancel whenever you like
◦ It’s free upfront
◦ With a 75/25 split in favor of artists, we only take a fee if we sync your tracks
New opportunities. Effortless sign up.
Vampr Publishing will be run from our newly established London office, headed up by Josh Smith, who joins Vampr from Music Gateway. With years of experience in music tech startups, Smith’s goal is to push the independent music industry forward and improve the commercial potential while lowering the barriers to entry for artists. Smith will be supported by Jessy Trengove who recently joined Vampr in her role as Head of Analytics and Insight.
If content is king, then context is key
Publishing was never on the roadmap when Baz and Josh first set out to connect musicians around the world. However as the network grew, so did one question from our users: “How do I get my songs on film?”
As the world’s largest social collaboration platform for young artists, we saw a unique opportunity to quickly build one of the biggest sync representation catalogues in the world, disrupting the music publishing landscape along the way.
We wanted to democratize opportunity and guarantee more favorable and quantifiably fairer terms for all writers and musicians. The Vampr Publishing platform is being built for the hitmakers of tomorrow and will offer licensors a rich catalogue of diverse and original unrepresented tracks ready for the perfect sync. Today marks the start of the revolution.
Why us?
Vampr was founded by Australia’s The Music Network’s 30 Under 30 Power Player, Josh Simons, and multi-award-winning songwriter/guitarist and tech entrepreneur, Baz Palmer. The award-winning app is home to over half a million users and is active in every country. Vampr has helped fledgling musicians broker over 5 million connections worldwide.
Josh comes from a family deeply entrenched in the world of music publishing, from his grandfather Cyril whose 50 year career included serving as the Managing Director of Universal Music Publishing Group and Chairman of the PRS, to his father Tony whose own company represented Michael Nyman as his publisher whilst working with Paul McCartney and Jeff Wayne among others.
Baz has had countless major syncs as a writer, with his tracks used extensively for marketing campaigns, all the way through to TV series and soundtracks of feature films. Baz will tell you that a great publishing operation is essential to having your songs synced. They need to know where and when to pitch your tracks and have the relationships with agencies, music supervisors and creative directors to guarantee your tracks are heard.
Nevertheless in their early days as songwriters, Baz and Josh both experienced the struggle of finding sync opportunities without a traditional publishing deal. This struggle is universal among songwriters. Vampr Publishing was created to solve this problem for the next generation of creative souls around the world.
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Sounds like a winner to me!
Woo-hoo....always winners!!!
Great idea! Well done Vampr!!!
That's a power move you guys just made. I give it 2 thumbs up !!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a very good idea. Makes sense to have as another feature of Vampr.
oMG😵 you all are on FIRE over..well,everywhere! That answered a few questions that's been on my mind to ask but you are taking it to the tizzy top! Josh you sure your not actually a Ai musical Android from the future? Your VAMPr publishing outfit alone will cover a huge territory..I can now try to steer the runner up who got 2nd place finalist on THE VOICE back on season 13..She should have won 1st but she's from here in my city and she may find this new part of VAMPr very unique..As always stay vampy VAMPr team!👍😉✌️🎬
I think its going to be a good move, the idea is great then some social marketing to boost it
this is awesome!
This is absolutely awesome!
This seems like a good move. In terms of the democratization of musician services, publishing is one of the last ones not yet available, so in excited for this both a musician and a fan of Vampr's
That looks great!!
Excellent idea
LESSGOO💪🏽💪🏽
This is great!
Great move guys. Supporting the artists and penetrating the revenue streams of the industry for those artists
this is going to be amazing!
I think this is a great expansion to the business platform! Good work!
what a great concept!!love the direction ur going!
Thats an amazing concept. Super excited, keep working hard.