The song is Kangaroo Time, the music video that turned Dr WELI's behavioural-ecology PhD into a pop record and a Canberra dance cast, and won the AAAS Dance Your PhD Global Winner 2024. Within weeks of that win, three international broadcasters licensed it for their own programming: MSNBC in the United States, UFA in Germany, and Productions Mustang III in Canada. The placements landed around March 2024, each now held by the studio as a master clip with cleared sync rights.
That clearance is what matters to the people who book music for screen. Music travels with film and television only when the rights are clean, and many catalogues stall at that step. A sync licence is permission to set the recording, master and publishing, against visual content, and its fee is separate from streaming or performance royalties. Three broadcasters clearing it in three legal systems is a documented signal that the work is ready to use.
Placements
MSNBC, The 11th Hour
The most public of the three ran on MSNBC's The 11th Hour, where anchor Stephanie Ruhle aired the music video and described it on air. "The winning video is described as joyful madness," Ruhle told viewers, repeating the phrase Sean Cummings had used days earlier in Science Magazine, where he wrote that the video "carries meaning nonetheless in its joyful madness." The segment ran the work as the story itself.
It is the only one of the three that is publicly archived, on the Internet Archive, and it is embedded on the WildWooHoo News hub. Watch the broadcasts ↗
UFA, Germany
UFA, one of Germany's established television producers, licensed the song for a German-language broadcast, carrying the work to an audience well beyond the science press that first covered it. Sync rights were cleared with the broadcaster and the master clip is held by the studio.
This clip is not publicly archived. It is available on request to qualified press, broadcasters or partners. Request access ↗
Productions Mustang III, Canada
In Canada, Productions Mustang III licensed the song for broadcast, a third market and programming context. Sync rights were cleared with the broadcaster and the master clip is held by the studio.
This clip is not publicly archived. It is available on request to qualified press, broadcasters or partners. Request access ↗
Proof
Sync agents and broadcasters tend to ask the same few questions before any conversation starts. Together, the three placements answer them.
- The rights are clean. Three international broadcasters cleared the music with WildWooHoo Studio and proceeded. Master and publishing splits are documented and held by the studio.
- The work travels across markets. The United States, Germany and Canada each licensed it, in three separate broadcast systems, within the same season.
- It can carry a whole segment. On MSNBC the work ran as the story, with the anchor airing and describing it.
- The studio is responsive. Requests for masters, stems, instrumental mixes or extended versions are handled directly, with cleared turnaround.
Catalogue
WildWooHoo Studio holds the master and publishing splits on Kangaroo Time and Cabra da Peste (G.O.A.T.), both open for sync. The wider Performance set sits in 24-bit production masters at the studio: Kangaroo Time Original, Fireflies, A Horse With No Name and Feels Like Summer. Stems, vocal mixes, instrumentals and extended versions are available on request, across television, film, documentary, advertising, brand work, sports, news and current affairs.
Two of those tracks are cover masters, A Horse With No Name and Feels Like Summer. APRA AMCOS or publisher clearance is required before any streaming release of the covers; the original-composition tracks carry no such restriction. APRA AMCOS membership is in progress as the studio's performing-rights interface, and documented agreements are available on request.