Talent and entertainment agency, United Talent Agency has hired from Spotify executive Vanja Primorac as an executive focused on Music Innovations. In this newly created role, she will identify and create marketing, distribution, and platform partnership deals for UTA’s client roster. “UTA is taking a holistic approach to their artist…
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Apple Music Coming to Amazon Echo Devices
Apple Music will be available on Amazon’s Echo voice controlled devices beginning the week of December 17. Users will be able to ask Alexa to play songs, artists, albums and Apple. Users can also ask Alexa to stream Beats 1 one or curated radio stations centered on popular genres like…
Facebook’s Jess Keeley-Carter Joins WMG As SVP Global Digital Marketing
Warner Music Group has named Jess Keeley-Carter as SVP of Global Digital Marketing, Recorded Music. Keeley-Carter was previously at Facebook, where she oversaw Label Partnerships for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She previously worked for eight years for Universal Music Groups, as Global Digital Business Manager based in the…
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FRIDAY 11.30.18
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Lizzo, Kim Petras, Karen Brooks On Music’s Gender Gap [VIDEO]
Kim Petras and Lizzo have a short but informative discussion with Karen Brooks, a Grammy Award-winner who has a No. 1 single on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart about the need for equality in the recording studio and music industry at large. ____________________ Sponsored by Uber and Billboard
Institutional Investors Bought $1.4B In Spotify Stock In Q3 (NASDAQ:SPOT)
At least nine major institutional investors have significantly upped their stake in Spotify (NASDAQ:SPOT) in recent months. Total new institutional investments in Spotify topped $1.4 billion in Q3. ________________________ In the 3rd quarter institutional investments included: ARK Investment Management added 37% to its Spotify stock portfolio for a total value…
Institutional Investors Bought $1.4B In Spotify Stock In Q3 (NASDAQ:SPOT)
At least nine major institutional investors have significantly upped their stake in Spotify (NASDAQ:SPOT) in recent months. Total new institutional investments in Spotify topped $1.4 billion in Q3. ________________________ In the 3rd quarter institutional investments included: ARK Investment Management added 37% to its Spotify stock portfolio for a total value…
Qobuz Sets Early 2019 US Launch with Hi-Res Streams, Downloads, Additional Content
Qobuz, which bills itself as the world’s only certified hi-res streaming and download service, will launch in the US in early 2019. 40 million tracks will be available in “lossless” quality (FLAC 16-Bit/44.1 kHz, similar to CD quality) and in 320kbps MP3 quality along with extensive meta-data and additional content….
AM BRIEF: Copyright Board, MMA Updates • 100M Steamers For Huawei • Hi-Res Qobuz 2019 US Launch • More
THURSDAY 11.29.18
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How Analytics Make All The Difference In A&R, Marketing
In this piece Chaz Jenkins explains why implementing a broader approach to analytics is key to an effective marketing strategy, and why only looking at past data simply doesn’t provide enough information. ____________________________ Guest post by Chaz Jenkins of ChartMetric On my first day in a new role a few…