Staff moves get EMI sync office buzzing.(News)

EMI Music is restructuring its music synchronisation department after striking a raft of new deals, including a deal attaching a Jamelia track to a new Sony PlayStation game.

As part of the departmental moves, sync coordinator Hywel Evans takes over the role of syqqc manager from Annie Woolf, the executive who pitched Make Luv by Room 5 for the Lynx Pulse advert, which this year picked up the best music exploitation honour at the MW awards. Woolf has decided not to return from maternity leave. At the same time Tom Foster takes over Evans' former job.

EMI's commercial markets director Adrienne Dunlop says the reorganised department has also signed two new music game deals. The first is an ad campaign for the PlayStation karaoke game Sing, which features Jamelia's Superstar track, and will roll out in Europe through June before ...