Beats & Bytes: Apple Music is helping, not hurting Spotify
Greetings from Havana, Cuba, where I am on a week long cultural exploration. It’s clear that the business landscape is rapidly changing. This week I’m having exciting conversations with big CPG brands looking to future proof their organizations. While we have ideas for days, it ultimately comes down to “how do I monetize?” The answer […]
Read MoreBeats & Bytes: $8M in one day for Drake + Apple Music
Greetings from Havana, Cuba, where I am on a week long cultural exploration. Cuban history is rich and it’s fascinating to be in an “Unamericanized” society with no hint of American brands, products or entrepreneurial hustle. Innovation has barely taken place since the late 1950’s. Wifi is spotty at best, I have no cell service, and […]
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HOT IN TECH: Interview with Audiomack
Damn Daniel, We’re back at it again with the next episode of HotinTech with David Macli, & David Ponte, the Co-Founders/CEO’s of Audio Mack!! In this episode we touch on several topics important to every Artists, and music fans alike, like what the music streaming services should be doing and where they’re going, How Audio […]
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HOT IN TECH: Interview with Drone Film Festival
Did you know NYC had a Drone Film Festival? You prob didn’t because all you hear about is the bad news, but They do have a NYC Drone Film Festival, and Jesse & Tat sat down with the guy that created it, Randy Slavin aka the Drone Lord!! Randy drops jewels on how it started, […]
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HOT IN TECH: Interview with Ryan Leslie
Hosts of HotinTech, Tat Wza & Jesse Kay, sat down with singer/song writer/producer R. Les aka Ryan Leslie about his new tech adventure ’SuperPhone.io’, a new mobile intelligence application that is starting in text, but will grow to all forms of personal communications including social media! Basically, it allows the phone to communicate with people […]
Read MoreBeats & Bytes: Snapchat’s Biggest Star, Live & Unfiltered
Tonight Nue Agency is very excited to be producing CRWN featuring DJ Khaled, the first breakthrough star of Snapchat. I’m excited to hear his insights on why he’s so successful with this powerful medium. It was interesting, this past weekend I felt like I was at Coachella as I watched it all on Snapchat. It […]
Read MoreBeats & Bytes: Major Announcement + Major Key
Ever since our last CRWN event with Mac Miller I have been getting email, tweets, and snapchats about when is the next one. Soon! Soon! I’ve been telling everyone. Finally soon is here. Nue Agency is excited to announce that CRWN, the hottest hip hop web show is returning next week with the most relevant […]
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CRWN: A Conversation with Elliott Wilson & DJ Khaled
The CRWN interview series is coming back to The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music/NYU on April 19th as Elliott Wilson interviews DJ Khaled live at Skirball Center, and for the first time ever, will be airing on TV – on MTV2 4/27 @ 11pm. It’s our 20th episode to date, and will be our biggest one yet! Filmed in front of a live […]
Read MoreBeats & Bytes: YouTube domination coming to an end?
Even though I’ve built a career in music I’m still amazed at how powerful music is. When music is playing at home people become physically closer, less irritable, more inspired, increase positive feelings, are more physically active. Music makes activities more enjoyable, even food tastes better. These aren’t just how I feel, these facts come […]
Read MoreBeats & Bytes: The Art Of The Playlist
There is a lot of talk right now about the Instagram algorithm changing. Engagement is low and there are just too many accounts that the average person follows. It’s impossible to see all of the content. With the change IG is hoping to stop the dilution of content and increase engagement. However the roll out […]
Read MoreBeats & Bytes: Music By The Numbers
After being a out of the office for a while there’s no question that this is a week of catching up. But with all of the new friends and conversations I’ve had, it’s also a week of following up and forging forward. There’s nothing like new technology, music, mixing and mingling to spark my […]
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