| December 25, 2007 |
  Top Ad Music of 2007 Adtunes.com presents the Top Ad Music of 2007. Here is a selection of some the most memorable music trends in advertising from the past year. 10. Music at Retail If 2006 was the year of music in cellphone commercials, then... More » |
| November 19, 2007 |
Old is New Again
The community weblog MetaFilter featured a post detailing a Washington Post article titled How to Calculate Musical Sellouts with an accompanying graphic of a "mathematical formula" called The Moby Quotient: The Moby Quotient, generated by the formula below, determines the... More » |
| August 26, 2007 |
Devo Works Dell
The new Dell commercial called "Engine" shows a group of women in black and white building an engine for the new Dell XPS notebook computer. The music for the spot is a distinctive 80s sound, like something from the band... More » |
| July 09, 2007 |
Wilco Tango Foxtrot
In what they are calling "an advertising first", car maker VW has licensed the brand new album Sky Blue Sky (iTunes) by the alternative rock band Wilco for use in their new Volkswagon TV commercial ad campaign. According to VW:... More » |
| January 22, 2007 |
UPS Goes Postal
New TV commercials for the UPS Whiteboard campaign feature "Such Great Heights" (iTunes) by The Postal Service off their album Get Up. What makes this puzzling is that The Postal Service band has always been associated with (UPS rival) the... More » |
| October 20, 2006 |
Lady Sovereign Nation The big music news, at least on the internet, is that pint-sized U.K. rapper Lady Sovereign and her music video for "Love Me or Hate Me" jumped to number one on MTV's TRL video countdown, which marked the first music... More » |
| June 07, 2006 |
 Immediate Music Readers of our Trailer Music forum are probably familiar with the stock film trailer music studio Immediate Music. Whether it's the infamous track "Lacrimosa" from the Spiderman 2 trailer or music in the latest ad for X-Men: The Last Stand,... More » |
| October 07, 2005 |
Can't Break On Through There's a reason you never hear music by the group The Doors used in TV ads. Much to the dismay of his former band mates, Doors drummer John Densmore hasn't allowed any of the band's music to be used in... More » |
| May 03, 2005 |
A Beautiful Life for Fisher The band Fisher knew they had a hit on their hands when keyboardist Ron Wasserman wrote "Beautiful Life" in response to an ad music request from HUM Music, a music production agency. Fisher lead vocalist Kathy Fisher told Adtunes.com, Hum... More » |
| February 21, 2004 |
O Fortuna You've heard it. You might not know it, but you have. It's shown up in ads ranging from Old Spice to Reebok, countless movie soundtracks and trailers like SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT and even the opening of Ozzy... More » |
| November 30, 2003 |
Amazon.com MP3s Did you know that Amazon.com offers FREE music for downloading? From "Blockbuster Tracks" to "New and Notable" and "Digital Discoveries," there is a whole section devoted to exposing new music to fans from a wide range of artists. Why is... More » |
| October 16, 2003 |
Apple iTunes for Windows Apple launched the long awaited iTunes for Windows software and service today. This brings the popular online music download store (featuring over 400,000 music tracks) to the Windows platform. The company hopes this will also drive further sales of their... More » |
| September 01, 2003 |
Free MP3s! The Apple iPod and Volkswagen Beetle have united! And, to celebrate that union the VW website is sharing some music to fill up your iPod. Visit the VW site and click on the area named "Pods Unite," at the bottom... More » |
| August 28, 2003 |
Overseer Overseer, the artist responsible for music heard in numerous ad campaigns, television shows and movies, has finally released his album "Wreckage!" Most popular is the track "Horndog," heard in the Mitsubishi Endeavor tv ads. The song "Supermoves" has been heard... More » |
| June 27, 2003 |
Trust Your Mind I wonder what music would have been used in the ad for the new Schick Intuition Razor if Jewel hadn't come out with her latest single, "Intuition," in time?... More » |
| June 15, 2003 |
Take It Off Whether it's TV spots for the upcoming film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, or MTV's summer reality series Surf Girls, chances are you've been hearing music from the neo-punk girl group The Donnas. They are one of the few all-girl bands... More » |
| June 01, 2003 |
Mas y Mas! You've probably heard their music on an episode of ALIAS or as the theme to NBC's cancelled drama, KINGPIN. Most recently, it's the track featured in the new Nissan commercial for the V6 Altima. The song is "Mas" by a... More » |
| May 27, 2003 |
Do It Ebay Weird Al Yankovic does a parody of eBay. Meanwhile, eBay TV ads continue to feature a parody of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" that would make Weird Al proud.... More » |
