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    Music strategy and production for agencies

    Your creative team. Our music expertise.

    Bring specialist music strategy, supervision, licensing and production into your next pitch or campaign, at the point where it helps most, and under whatever name the client relationship requires.

    Three problems agency teams bring us

    01

    The pitch needs music credibility you cannot staff

    A sonic idea can win a pitch, but building an in-house music capability for an unpredictable pipeline rarely makes sense.

    02

    Rights turn up after the idea is sold

    The creative is approved, then the clearance reality arrives. Whoever presented the idea carries the credibility cost.

    03

    The client asks a music question mid-project

    Territory, term, adaptation, an existing sonic asset. Answers need to be right the first time, and fast.

    Choose where we join your team.

    Four entry points. Choose one to see the workflow, the likely deliverables and who does what.

    Choose an entry point

    Pitch development

    Give the pitch a defensible sonic idea and a realistic path to make it.

    We work inside your pitch team: a musical territory for the idea, an indicative route, and an early read on what it would take to produce and clear. You present it as part of your response.

    • You lead: strategy, creative, client relationship
    • We lead: musical direction, feasibility, indicative production view
    • Typical output: a musical territory, reference route, feasibility note

    Scope, credit and commercial terms are agreed per engagement. The models below describe how collaborations are typically structured, not a fixed price list.

    Where a specific commercial or contractual arrangement matters (white-label naming, credit wording, exclusivity), we confirm it in writing before it is presented to a client.

    The consistency opportunity

    In IAB Australia's buy-side survey, 39% reported consistent sonic branding usage for their own or their clients' brands.

    EightSix reading: among the agencies represented in this Australian survey, consistent use is the exception rather than the rule. It is buy-side self-report from one market with a small sample, so we treat it as an indication of where the opportunity sits, not a global benchmark.

    IAB Australia, Audio Advertising State of the Nation 2026 (pp. 8, 23), 2026

    Datos recogidos November–December 2025 · Australia

    128 buy-side respondents, 95% from agencies

    Fuente verificada 2026-09-09

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    How a brief becomes music direction

    A short worked example of the translation step, which is usually where agency and music partner either align or drift.

    1. 01

      The creative brief

      You provide

      "Confident, modern, human. Not corporate. It has to feel like a decision, not a mood."

      We return

      Questions: confident against what? Which moment carries the decision, the cut or the endline?

    2. 02

      Musical translation

      You provide

      The cut, the endline and the audience.

      We return

      Parameters: mid-tempo, rhythm-led, live instrumentation over synthetic, resolution held to the final frame.

    3. 03

      Routes

      You provide

      Feedback on the parameters, before anything is produced.

      We return

      Two to four routes that each satisfy the parameters differently, with the reasoning written down.

    4. 04

      Feasibility

      You provide

      Media, territories, term and budget range.

      We return

      Which routes stay viable, and what each would require to clear or produce.

    Responsibility map

    The default split. It moves per engagement, but it is always written down before work starts.

    • Agency: client relationship, strategy, creative approval, final presentation
    • Agency: production schedule, edit and delivery specifications
    • EightSix: musical direction, composition and supervision
    • EightSix: licensing negotiation and clearance coordination
    • EightSix: recording, mix, adaptations and stems
    • Shared: brief interrogation, feasibility, timeline dependencies
    • Agreed per engagement: credit wording, client-facing or white-label presence, confidentiality

    Work with agency and production credits

    Music credit

    immowelt: "Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwas"

    immowelt credits EightSix for music in its campaign. The credits name KNSK Berlin as the agency and Simon&Paul Film Hamburg as the production company.

    Agency: KNSK Berlin · Production: Simon&Paul Film Hamburg

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    Modular sonic branding system

    Siemens Home Appliances

    EightSix was commissioned to develop a modular sonic branding system for Siemens Home Appliances. Campaign Germany reported on the project on 24 April 2026.

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    Where a music partner joins the process

    A short briefing checklist you can copy straight into a project kickoff.

    • Which stage are we joining: pitch, strategy, production or ongoing?
    • Is the work client-facing or presented under the agency's name?
    • Who owns the client relationship and who speaks in reviews?
    • What is already locked: edit, endline, budget, launch date?
    • Media, territories and term, even approximately
    • Existing brand sound assets and whether they must be respected
    • Credit wording and confidentiality expectations

    Questions agencies ask

    Presentation and credit arrangements are agreed per engagement and written down before anything reaches a client. We do not present a naming or credit arrangement as available until it is confirmed for that project.

    Discuss a partnership

    Tell us the stage, the deadline and how visible you want us to be. We will come back with how we would work on it.