Amanda Natividad
Nov 3, 2011 6:47 PM
When it comes to marketing, some things are obvious: Twitter is important. Facebook is more important (at least so far). Holding onto those “follows” and “likes” are important. And authentic consumer relationships? Those are important too. But once you establish these generally accepted ideals, how do you use them to…
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Staci D. Kramer
Feb 24, 2011 5:36 PM
A little more than two years after taking the top job at MySpace Music, Courtney Holt is leaving the joint venture. MySpace CEO Mike Jones will act as interim president; it’s hard to see the job being filled by a major name from outside as long as the fate of…
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Amanda Natividad
Feb 19, 2009 11:54 PM
At our recent EconMusic conference in LA, our co-editor and EVP Staci D. Kramer interviewed MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) Music President Courtney Holt about the company’s business strategies, competition with other free services and much more. Watch the Q&A embedded after the jump and check out the writeup from Tameka Kee.…
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Tameka Kee
Feb 5, 2009 4:29 PM
During the Keynote Q&A at our EconMusic conference, everyone asked MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) Music President Courtney Holt the same question in different ways: How is the much-hyped music portal going to be profitable when it has to compete with free services like Pandora, illegal file-sharing sites and torrents, and of…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 17, 2009 8:11 PM
Just 11 days in to the job and new MySpace Music president Courtney Holt was thrown in at the deep end, at MidemNet in Cannes, to talk about the venture heralded as another music-biz savior. Asked on stage how he felt about Facebook’s faltering music store efforts, Holt joked “It’s…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 25, 2008 8:53 PM
One of the most over-rated and over-hyped jobs in the digital music industry has finally been filled: After months of drib-drab leaks (you would have thought negotiating the contract of the MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) Music head was more complex and important than renewing the contract for Peter Chernin), MTV executive…
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David Kaplan
Apr 29, 2008 12:26 PM
Alluding to Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) decision to pass on buying MySpace, Staci D. Kramer, co-editor/EVP for paidContent parent ContentNext Media, asked a panel of MTV Network executives about missed opportunities in the social media space during one of the morning sessions at our company’s EconSM conference. Missing out on the…
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