I’m pleased to announce that AdRev, a division of AudioMicro, Inc. where we operate an asset administration and micro-licensing platform for music rights holders on YouTube, will be exhibiting at the Music Industry Toolbox this Wednesday March 27, 2013 at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Sherman Oaks from 3pm to 8pm. The event is FREE so please c0me on by, meet the team, and learn about what we’re up to!
About the Music Industry Toolbox:
The Association of Independent Music Publishers and California Copyright Conference are proud to present the third annual Music Industry Toolbox. This uniqueevent was created for Music Publishers, Record Companies, Production Music Libraries/ Producers, but should be of interest to all music industry professionals.
Performing Rights Organizations ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and SOCAN and a wide array of leading companies (including AdRev) will be on hand to discuss and demonstrate their products and services in the areas of digital distribution, royalty accounting & collections, music rights administration and music search.
So at jury duty in LA county they let you have WiFi and internet access while waiting to be called; however, they have blocked a number of sites, including Twitter. Don’t they realize how many people in the room have a 3G / 4G enabled smartphone and can still access these services?
Now I’ve purposely left off the exact daily visitors here but let’s just say we’re pleased with the early results. The chart here shows traffic growth (100% organic search traffic) at our new celebrity pictures site, ImageCollect. We’re aiming to have the next 6 weeks (and months) be just as promising.
You gotta love it when a prediction comes true. A little over a month ago I predicted a pivot out of Swipely and Blippy because no one is going to their sites and no one want so publicly share credit card transactions. Well a couple of days ago Mashable announced that Swipely wants to be an auto-rewards network for merchants. Welcome to the club Swipely, you’ve got some nice competition from Kleiner Perkins funded Offermatic, who after launch has a similarly nascent traffic rank. Let’s be honest here, both public sharing and rewards networks are tough spaces to play in. Nevertheless, I applaud you for pivoting (man I hate that word) and changing your strategy when you realized it needed to shift. That’s the sign of a good entrepreneur. Good luck with the new vision!
Bad drivers are like Gremlins…Get them wet and they multiply!
I think once in everyone’s life you get the silly privilege of appearing on local news. Well my 10 seconds in the sun came yesterday when I was stopped on the corner of Sepulveda and Ventura in Sherman Oaks during lunch time to talk about the weather. I gave a bunch of sarcastic sound bites and they chopped it down to just this brief clip – “It’s kind of a downer, people don’t know how to drive”.
Ryan Born is the Founder & CEO at HAAWK, Inc., which ranked as the USA's #16 fastest growing media company on the 2024 Inc 5000 and was acquired by SESAC Music Group (Blackstone) in 2024. He is also the Founder & Former CEO of AdRev (AudioMicro, Inc.), a VC backed rights management and content licensing network, which was acquired by Zealot Networks in 2014-15 for $25M cash and which today is part of Downtown Music Holdings / FUGA. AdRev ranked as the USA's #5 fastest growing media company on the 2015 Inc. 500 (#162 overall, #5 in LA). Previously, Ryan was an investor in and VP of Finance for WireImage (acquired by Getty Images in '07 for $208M) and an angel investor in NewCondosOnline and InternetMarketingInc. He has been a guest lecturer at Emory University, UCLA, UCSB, Loyola Marymount and various industry conferences and events. Learn More.
