Tag: appointments

Hiring a former c-level executive at eBay is a good way of signalling your intentions to do even more with D2C sales and ecommerce more generally. Universal Music Group has done just that, appointing Richelle Parham to its...

SoundCloud is putting its team together under new CEO Michael Weissman, with its latest hire being Lauren Wirtzer-Seawood as chief content and marketing officer. We first encountered Wirtzer-Seawood in 2014 in her role...

We know what you’re thinking. What IS internet 3.0? According to Triller’s latest announcement, it’s about “consolidating technology, apps and entertainment and lifestyle content platforms”...

Tencent Music has a new boss, although he’s hardly a stranger to the company. Zhu ‘Ross’ Liang is taking over as chief executive of China’s music-streaming giant, with existing CEO Cussion Pang becoming...

Lyrics-focused firm Genius has a new president: Miki Toliver King, formerly chief marketing officer at the Washington Post, and before that EVP of operations at political news site Politico. She’ll now be putting her...

There are two new appointments from within to report from the Universal Music family today. Motown Records’ Ethiopia Habtemariam has been promoted from president of the storied label to chairman and CEO, reporting directly...

British startup Audoo has been winning friends in the industry with its technology for accurately tracking the music played in public venues and businesses, and reporting it to collecting societies. As it continues its plans...

We wrote about Syng in May 2020: it was a startup founded by former Apple design team member Christopher Stringer, which was planning to launch its own smart speaker and subscription service. The company is still working...

Music distribution company FUGA has announced the appointment of new senior hires, six months after being acquired by Downtown Music Holdings. The Netherlands-based company has now signalled their ambition by bringing...

Splice is one of the most popular music-making communities, with more than four million artists using it to buy samples, ‘rent-to-own’ audio plugins, and collaborate with one another. In February this year, it...

TikTok has a new boss, and he’s a media-industry heavyweight. Kevin Mayer is joining TikTok’s parent company Bytedance from Disney, where he was most recently chairman of direct-to-consumer and international –...

Live-video platform Twitch’s music ambitions continue to grow. We reported in January on its hiring of Athena Koumis as its music partnerships manager. Now it has bagged another former Spotify-er for its music team:...