Matthew Newton

Label Services Executive at Horus Music
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Leicester, England, United Kingdom, UK

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Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • Musicians
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Label Services Executive
      • Jul 2019 - Present

      - Acting as head of A&R for the Horus Music label services accounts and working with colleagues to scout and build relationships with new, emerging talent and potential label clients. - Handling the distribution and day-to-day assistance for high calibre, Custom Music Tools artists and labels using the company's distribution and label services. - Preparing and executing global playlist pitching campaigns for upcoming Horus Music and Custom Music Tools client releases. - Communicating with DSPs to set up marketing and promotion opportunities on platforms for all Horus Music clients. - Reviewing new marketing submissions and assigning them to the correct colleague / contact. - Attending local and global industry events / conferences in order to network, meet potential clients and find more marketing opportunities for artists and labels. Show less

    • Client Manager
      • Sep 2018 - Jul 2019

      - The Processing and Delivery of client content to digital stores and platforms, whilst ensuring we always deliver on all distribution standards. - Providing high quality of customer service and contributing feedback towards the development of delivery processes and client experience. - Developing and maintaining client and DSP relationships.

    • Client Manager
      • Sep 2016 - Aug 2017

      Employed as Client Manager to work within the digital distribution department at Horus Music Ltd as part of a one-year internship. Key achievements: • Successful processing of client audio/video releases; involved handling of metadata and conducting quality control checks on all releases to ensure audio/video files, release artwork and metadata met digital store guidelines and minimum requirements. • Managed delivery of releases; involved sending groups of releases to the agreed stores/streaming platforms each release must go to. • Developed Artist-Label Relations (ARL) skills; as Client Manager, communicated with current (and potential) Horus Music clients via e-mail or over the phone, handling client requests, queries and issues. • Represented Horus Music at Midem 2017; attended the international music industry conference held in Cannes France, representing three separate artists. The main requirement was to set up meetings with industry members in order to obtain contacts and create business partnerships to help push the artists in the direction they wished to go. • Significantly developed personal knowledge of the Music Industry; learnt a lot about the distribution process; exposed to the processes for Artist Management, Record Labels and Label Services, Publishing, Sync-Licensing, Digital Marketing, Digital Playlisting and Radio Plugging; attended Industry Events/Conferences. • Video storyboarding, filming and editing; created a short video to advertise services provided by a Horus sister company (Anara Publishing) to be present on social media sites. Became well practiced in using Adobe Final Cut Pro to edit videos. • Contributed to weekly staff meetings; each week would give an update to the Nick Dunn Enterprises staff members regarding distribution and any important information that any/all staff would need to know i.e. important clients, urgent ongoing issues and the latest digital store and platform news. Show less

Education

  • De Montfort University
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Music Technology
    2014 - 2018

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