Jon Vlassopulos, the former Roblox VP, Global Head of Music, has joined the advisory board of Dubit, a UK-based games designer for the metaverse. Vlassopulos left his role at Roblox at the... Read more »
Last week, Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) launched its third fund, CLF III, naming The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) and Pharrell Williams as investors. A16z says that its Cultural Leadership Fund... Read more »
Downtown Music Holdings [269 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/downtown-music-holdings/”>Downtown-owned B2B distributor FUGA [85 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/downtown-music-holdings/fuga/”>FUGA is expanding its team with a number of senior marketing hires and promotions. Helen Barrass joins FUGA’s UK team as... Read more »
Anthony De Padua has been promoted to Vice President, Digital Marketing at RCA Records. De Padua started at RCA Records in 2020 as Director, Digital Marketing. RCA says that De Padua has... Read more »
In My Manifesto, we ask a wide range of execs to play the role of politician. For some, it’s more of a stretch than others. For Geoff Taylor [44 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/people/geoff-taylor/”>Geoff Taylor,... Read more »
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide [181 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/music-business-worldwide-2/”>Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s... Read more »
Nigeria-based record label Chocolate City has appointed Franklin ‘Twizz’ David as its new President of Brand, Content and Partnerships in North America. Based in New York, David joins the company’s executive leadership... Read more »
MBW Reacts is a series of short comment pieces from the MBW team. They are our ‘quick take’ reactions – through a music biz lens – to major entertainment news stories. Millions... Read more »
Music licensing tech startup Songclip has entered into a strategic partnership with The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) [165 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/national-music-publishers-association-nmpa/”>National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). According to an announcement published today (June... Read more »
Rayna Bass and Selim Bouab have been promoted to Co-Presidents of Warner Music Group [2,096 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/access-industries/warner-music-group/”>Warner Music Group-owned 300 Entertainment [62 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/300-entertainment/”>300 Entertainment. The news was announced today (June 16)... Read more »