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Authenticity is Key in Brand-Artist Partnerships

The foundation of any successful brand-artist partnership is authenticity. Without it, messages come across as phony and fall flat, and the critical millennial consumer tunes out (or worse). Artists have historically viewed brand partnerships with a...

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Content Is King: How Brands Can Capitalize on the New Rules of Content

As marketers take aim at tapping the huge and growing millennial market, it seems that every brand on the planet has developed a content and social...

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Mountain Dew and SoundCloud’s “Green Label Sound: Open Call”

A recent article in Forbes got me thinking about Mountain Dew’s unique place in marketing history and how it arrived at its latest effort: “Green...

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From Selling Out to Breaking Out: The Evolution of Artist/Brand Partnerships

From Advertising Age’s excellent series of articles to Gawker’s view that “ . . . the current young generation is being sold wholesale the idea that...

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The Next Gen of Ad-Tech Will Amplify Your Authentic Voice

With millennials poised to overtake Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, the discussion around how to market to this demographic has...

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Target and the Five Elements of Millennial Marketing

If you caught the Grammys last night, you couldn’t have missed Target’s Imagine Dragons concert spot. The big-box retailer ponied up what is...

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The Music Business' Only Hope is Transparency

Paul Graham is the founder of Y-Combinator. If you're unfamiliar with Y-Combinator, it's a sort of combination boot camp/mentor program/seed...

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Artists and Brands Make Their Fans/Customers Teachers

The impulse to teach is a powerful one. For me, it provides me with my Joseph Cambell "bliss."

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Joint Venture to Generate Brand Opportunities for Artists

Universal Music Group (UMG) and Havas just announced a joint venture they are calling the "Global Music Data Alliance". This initiative is intended...

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