Cumulus Media launched a brand new music partnerships division and tapped Greg Frey to steer the division as vp of music partnerships out of Atlanta. Within the position, Frey will coordinate advertising alternatives throughout Cumulus holdings, together with over 300 Cumulus music stations, Westwood One and affiliated social and digital platforms. He was beforehand vp of programming operations. He could be reached at greg.frey@cumulus.com.
SoundCloud vp and head of creator Jeff Ponchick is exiting the corporate, which he joined in 2019 after SoundCloud acquired his subscription-based artist companies platform Repost Community for an estimated $15 million. Ponchick’s departure, which he announced on LinkedIn, follows the corporate’s announcement final month that it will be slicing its world workforce by round 20%. His announcement intently adopted that of vp of content material partnerships and operations Raoul Chatterjee, who revealed he was exiting the corporate final week.
Elektra Leisure promoted Katie Robinson to senior vp of promoting and Adam Ruehmer to senior director and head of digital advertising. Robinson was beforehand vp of promoting whereas Ruehmer rises from the position of director of digital advertising. Each are based mostly in Los Angeles.
WME promoted 4 to agent within the company’s modern touring and music division: Justin Edwards, Mary Hannon, Phoebe Holley and Matt Smith. Edwards handles The Revivalists and The Important Squeeze and oversees bookings for over 75 festivals, together with Bonnaroo and Summer season Camp; he makes a speciality of reserving WME’s various/rock/indie shoppers at North American festivals and can deal with rising the company’s modern music presence in Nashville. Hannon, who relies at WME’s Beverly Hills workplace, will work intently on shopper groups together with Anderson .Paak, Earl Sweatshirt and Jhene Aiko; the Beverly Hills-based Holley has labored with shoppers together with Knucks and Abra Cadabra; and Smith, based mostly in London, works within the digital music division, the place he books reveals throughout a number of European territories. Edwards could be reached at JEdwards@wmeagency.com, Hannon could be reached at MHannon@wmeagency.com, Holley could be reached at PHolley@wmeagency.com and Smith could be reached at MDSmith@wmeagency.com.
Riser Home Leisure promoted Brandon Perdue to senior vp of A&R and publishing. He could be reached at brandon@riserhouse.com.
Younger Weapons Publishing employed Laura Wright Alexander as senior vp of artistic, the place she’s going to work with songwriters Ben Stennis and Jared Mullins. She could be reached at Laura@younggunspublishing.com.
CBC promoted Tara Mora to the newly created position of senior director of radio, discuss and music programming. Within the position, Mora will probably be liable for main the technique, programming and growth of the unscripted staff’s audio content material and schedules for CBC Radio One, CBC Music and CBC Hear. She’s going to oversee CBC Music, CBC Books, q, Now or By no means and Beneath the Affect, and lead growth for brand spanking new unscripted audio content material (excluding CBC Information & Present Affairs and CBC podcasts).
Elle Cameron-Kaufman, daughter of late supervisor Howard Kaufman, launched Elle Data out of Los Angeles. The impartial file label has partnered with TikTok’s new platform SoundOn for distribution. Cameron additionally co-founded administration firm The Creatives Group, the place she represents artists together with pop duo Grey, singer Gia Woods, Friendzone and HOWE.
Grayson Sanders, Jerry Yeh, Fernando Piccolo, Tilo Dell’Oro Maini, John Lin and Jason Alexander launched Chordal, a brand new collaborative rights platform that connects labels, publishers, artists and managers by the copyrights they share in an effort to make sync licensing extra environment friendly. At launch, the corporate boasts partnerships with Consider, EMPIRE, Heavy Responsibility, Mad Respectable, Mass Attraction and Erased Tapes, amongst others. Sanders could be reached at grey@chordal.com and Yeh could be reached at jerry@chordal.com.
Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution subsidiary Exactuals, which supplies options for advanced funds, royalties and metadata within the leisure and insurance coverage industries, promoted Lindsay Conlin to senior vp of income. Conlin will oversee all gross sales and advertising operations for the corporate and its merchandise, together with its flagship PaymentHub platform and royalty calculation and assertion era service SR1. She relies in Nashville.
