Viewers can hear Angel Olsen's track "Free" (via YouTube) playing during the ad. The song comes off of the artist's debut album "Half Way Home," which was released in 2012. While it's not one of Olsen's more popular songs, some out there believe "Free" is one of the best tunes "Half Way Home" has to offer.

CommercialSong.co is the comprehensive source to discover which songs are used in TV commercials, events, presentations and other promotional material by tech companies like Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft. Find the song title, artist and album for each song used in the commercial.

1996 Burger King commercial, featuring the 1976 hit by Orleans, "Still The One."

Costs for licensing a famous song can range from as low as $100 for an independent artist to as high as several hundred thousand dollars plus licensing fees for a major recording artist or label. The cost is variable and dependent on the deal that you make with the copyright license holders.

The cost to license a copyrighted song can vary widely. The cost for a song from a small independent artist might be less than $100, while a track by a major artist or label can run thousands of dollars. Some licenses might also charge you a percentage of revenue instead.

The world's longest running TV commercial is the Discount Tire Company's Thank you commercial, produced by Swartwout Productions (Arizona, USA) and first aired in 1975. The same commercial has been aired continuously every year in parts of the USA.

Gaining music spots on commercials is a highly competitive undertaking and understandably so. The exact payment to the singer-songwriter or publisher varies depending on various factors, but on average it ranges between five to six figures plus backend royalties for every spot that the commercial plays.

$25,000-$50,000 When a song is placed in a TV show, the producer must “clear” it with the song's composers and publishers and pay a license fee. Costs for popular songs can be quite expensive: in the range of $25,000-$50,000. Such a cost would not fit into a typical network or cable TV budget.

Homer Fesperman and Charles Weagley wrote the Slinky television jingle in 1962. In Timeless Toys, Tim Walsh writes that this jingle is the longest running jingle in advertising history.

The WNBT (now WNBC channel four) broadcasted an advert for the watchmaker Bulova, before a baseball game. A watch with a face inside a black & white map of the United States, with the title “Bulova Watch Time,” could be seen in the 10-second commercial.

Performance income is determined by the number of people estimated to have seen the show and therefore heard the music. The more popular the show - the more money you make on performance royalties. A network TV usage might pay in the $1000 - $2000 range for one broadcast.

When your song gets placed on television (whether it's a show, ad, or feature-length film), it's referred to as a sync placement. Sync deals come with initial licensing fees paid to both the owners of the recording and of the composition. These are usually handled by a publisher, label, or third-party sync agency.