Adobe Premiere Mobile App Launches Hundreds of Thousands of Tracks Licensed From UMG, WMG

Adobe has added hundreds of thousands of songs licensed from Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to its free Premiere mobile video-editing app. The move gives creators a way to add popular music while editing videos for short-form platforms, addressing a common difficulty with music access and copyright.

The tracks are initially available in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and users can add up to 60 seconds of a song to a video. The licence is for personal, non-commercial use, though Adobe says most tracks are cleared for YouTube Shorts and other platforms; commercial projects can use Adobe Stock Audio. Adobe says 83.7% of creators in a survey funded by the company had built a video around a chosen song, and it is seeking deals with more music rights holders.