Creative Cookbook Pete Callaghan, Co-Founder and CEO of Promoly

Nimrod Azoulai is Co-Founder and CEO of Mysphera, a music promotion business that connects new music to content creators. Mysphera's tailor-made solutions have helped thousands of artists reach new audiences and fans. In this episode, Nimrod talked about launching Mysphera, growing the company, and building an algorithm for connecting new music with playlisters, DJs, bloggers, and more. Nimrod also shares cutting edge techniques about how you can promote your music and build new audiences. 

Find out more about Mysphera here.

Josh Simons is Co-Founder and CEO of Vampr, the No.1 network for musicians. In today's show, Josh talked us through Vampr's inception, growing to the first 1000 users, raising money, and what it took to hit the milestone of 1,000,000 musicians using their network. Josh is very generous with his time and information shared - if you're looking to start and grow a business, this episode is for you!  

Find out more about Vampr here.

Find out more about Promoly here.

Jesper Skibsby is an entrepreneur living in Copenhagen - he founded Word Airplay Radio Monitor in 2016, which now monitors 30,000 radio stations worldwide. Jesper talks in-depth about starting companies, the struggles involved, raising capital to grow, and the future of WARM. Don't miss this incredible show; you'll learn a ton! 

Find out more about WARM here.

Find out more about Promoly here.

Tasha Baxter is a singer-songwriter from South Africa whose voice is synonymous with Drum & Bass. Tasha's career is diverse; she has had an album produced by Noisia, worked with the likes of Feed Me, and sang for Camo & Krooked as part of Red Bull Symphonic, composed by Christian Kolonovits. This interview with Tasha is incredible - she goes into the depths of how her career began, the struggles involved and how she created her record label, Polyoto, off the back of the pandemic.

Find out more about Tasha Baxter here.

Find out more about Promoly here.

Scott Orr is a Canadian musician and owner of Other Songs, a label he created as a launchpad for his music. Scott also runs Other Record Labels, a YouTube channel and podcast series, where he teaches other aspiring businesses owners to start and improve record labels. This episode goes into depth about perseverance, marketing skills and how storytelling can help you build a better brand. 

Here's a transcript teaser - "I think the blessing out of that is that you just keep your head down. You do what makes you passionate, and you focus on what excites you. If you try to create music for playlists. And I've done that. I've thought, oh, this song did well on a playlist. So I'll recreate, I'll do another one to try to get the same success. And that feels really gross on the inside. That's not something I would recommend, and I've tried it, and it doesn't work. You know, it's, it's silly. That's not how that song took off in the first place."

Find out more about Other Record Labels here.

Find out more about Promoly here.

Lewis Sinclair is the Founder and CEO of Cygnus Music, a leading electronic music distributor from the United Kingdom. Lewis talked in-depth about starting and growing Cygnus Music in 2009, running record labels, and pitching to Spotify to get in those needed playlists. If you're looking at starting a record label or music business, this episode is for you. 

Here's a transcript teaser when Lewis arranged started setting up Cygnus: "We'll contact iTunes, and we'll say, "I'd like to set up an agreement with you. We're a distributor," and they'll say, "Great. Okay. How many record labels have you got?" I respond, "Well, just a one for myself," and they'll say, "all right, so you're not really a distributor. Come back when you've got some more labels." And so you'll go back with 10 labels, and they're like, "no, you, you need to have a hundred labels to get on board," - you go "Right. Okay." And then you build things up to a hundred labels. And then by that point, as the industry has grown, their criteria for what they will allow has grown, and they're like, "no, actually you need 500."



Find out more about Cygnus Music here.

Find out more about Promoly here.