Ari Herstand

You may know Ricky Montgomery from his Vine days. You may know him from his band The Honey Sticks. Or you may know him because a few of his songs went viral on TikTok in 2020. This led to a massive bidding war amongst 50 major labels.

Blackbox is a marketing agency that has worked with Andra Day, JP Saxe, Best Coast, Christina Perri, Dirty Honey, Jesse McCartney.

I have a new album coming out April 9th. No, I'm not about to pimp another album NFT (more on this in a bit). This is only for reference to say I'm A) a working musician and B) I...

Jessica Severn, for 7 years, worked at Scooter Braun's company, SB Projects, doing creative direction. She spearheaded the campaigns of Shawn Mendes's "Wonder" and Justin Bieber's stuff over the past decade.

Winslow Bright is a music supervisor or music producer at Search Party Music. They do really big campaigns like Sephora, Beyond Burger, Calvin Klein, Mini Cooper, and many more.

Lindsay Wolfington is a music supervisor and initially broke into the music supervisor world when supervising for One Tree Hill.

DJ Swivel is a producer, engineer, songwriter, most notably for BTS, Beyonce, The Chainsmokers, Mary J Blige, Kanye West, Fabolous, Bow Wow, Redman, Jay-Z, Ghostface Killah, Mariah Carey. The list goes on.

Today my guest is Felicia Bennett. She is an artist manager and formerly a tour manager. She now manages Tanerélle, the breakout R&B artist. This last year they've had an incredible year.

Ari Nisman and I talk about how the college entertainment market works; how the military booking market works; how much they pay for all of that; and how much each booking earns. Surprisingly they're paying guarantees. You're not having to worry about promoting those shows. So we break all of that down.

All streams are not treated equally. How much Spotify and Apple Music pay for a stream varies on many factors. There are around 800 different pay rates for each stream on Spotify. Some of the variables include: Country/Territory of the listener ...