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Watch live streaming video from midem at livestream.com MIDEM asked me to host “Visionary Monday” this year, a day of talks and panels focused on engaging artists in the new music business. It’s an incredible day kicking of with Saatchi & Saatchi’s CEO Kevin Roberts, continuing with artists Paul Van Dyk, Zoe Keating, and Mark [...]
For those just tuning in, I’m training for the March 2012 LA Marathon and attempting to take some time each week to share progress and thoughts here. Hopefully a few people will enjoy them enough to contribute to my Pablove fundraising page in support. Thanks to everyone who has contributed thus far. I’ve raised more [...]
An apropos follow-on to last week’s discussion of subscription music services with UMG’s Global Head of Digital Rob Wells comes an interview with the CEO of the MOG subscription service, David Hyman. This episode was recorded live at the excellent New Noise conference in Santa Barbara, CA. Enjoy!
In April of 2008 I left Yahoo! to join a brand-new and still-stealth company called Topspin. Founded by Peter Gotcher (Digidesign) and Shamal Ranasinghe, the vision which drew me in was one of building software which would do for media marketing what software had done for media production (ProTools, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, etc) in [...]
Today at New Music Seminar in Los Angeles, I announced a set of new features on behalf of Topspin, coming in March and unveiled at SXSW, and the opening of our front door to any musician, filmmaker, or author for as low as $9.99/month. The meat of my presentation was meant to be a practical [...]