Adobe has partnered with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to bring licensed music into its Premiere mobile video editing app.
The partnerships, announced on Tuesday (November 3), will let users add up to 60 seconds of a track to a video.
The tracks will be licensed for personal, non-commercial use, according to Adobe.
Adobe says the music is “coming soon” to Premiere mobile, which is free to download on iPhone and Android.
“Music has always been a powerful way for people to express themselves and connect with others,” said Bryan Stone, SVP, Business Development at Universal Music Group. “By bringing licensed music from UMG artists into Adobe Premiere mobile, we’re giving creators new ways to build their stories around the songs they love for the first time, while helping our artists and songwriters reach new audiences.”
“By bringing licensed music from UMG artists into Adobe Premiere mobile, we’re giving creators new ways to build their stories around the songs they love for the first time, while helping our artists and songwriters reach new audiences.”
Bryan Stone, Universal Music Group
“The way people experience and engage with music extends far beyond traditional listening platforms,” said Rachel Scarpati, VP, Digital Strategy and Business Development at WMG.
“Our partnership with Adobe Premiere mobile integrates WMG’s catalog directly into the creative process, opening up new possibilities for creative expression and deeper fan engagement.”
“By combining music from two of the world’s leading music companies with Premiere mobile’s pro-level video editing tools, we’re making it easier for you to discover the tracks you love, shape your video around the music, and then share your stories – all in one free app,” Adobe said in its blog post.
“Our partnership with Adobe Premiere mobile integrates WMG’s catalog directly into the creative process, opening up new possibilities for creative expression and deeper fan engagement.”
Rachel Scarpati, WMG
Premiere mobile users will be able to browse, search, and preview music by artist or track, and filter it by genre and duration.
Favorite tracks can be bookmarked, and users can explore what Adobe calls “label-featured collections.”
Adobe is also introducing templates paired with music, which users can customize as a starting point for an edit.
Finished videos can be exported from Premiere mobile and posted to “licensed social platforms,” the company said.
In materials sent to MBW, Adobe named YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels as examples.
Users who need music cleared for commercial use can continue to turn to Adobe Stock Audio.
Adobe launched Premiere mobile on iPhone on September 30, 2025.
In its launch announcement, Adobe said the app included royalty-free music tracks among its libraries of free assets.
The company brought the app to Android almost a year later, on September 22.
The UMG and WMG partnerships follow previous music-related moves by Adobe.
In June 2024, Adobe and TikTok struck a deal to bring TikTok’s Commercial Music Library to Adobe Express, via the Symphony Assistant add-on.
The integration gave businesses using Adobe Express access to more than one million pre-cleared songs, MBW reported at the time.
In October 2025, Adobe unveiled a Generate Soundtrack tool within its Firefly AI suite, which it said could “create a custom, fully-licensed music track” for videos. The tool launched in public beta.
Adobe has said its Firefly generative AI models were “trained on licensed content, like Adobe Stock, and public domain content where copyright has expired.”
Elsewhere, Canva launched a library of music licensed from Warner Music Group, Merlin, and other rightsholders in November 2023.
As with Adobe’s new offering, Canva’s licensed tracks came as 60-second clips and were available for non-commercial purposes only.
Meta, meanwhile, launched Edits, its own video-creation app, in April 2025.
At the time of that launch, both WMG and UMG had revenue-sharing agreements with Meta covering licensed music used in creators’ posts.Music Business Worldwide