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    September 2017 Music Survey – Josh Rabinowitz

    By Mike MorgeraUpdated:No Comments983 Views
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    1) Personally, presenting Pussy Riot at Cannes Lions for the 11th Annual Grey Music Seminar was a crazy challenge. Dealing with the manager and a band , some of whom live in Russia, and coordinating a meaningful event was quite difficult. Fitting a square peg of a punk rock activist band into a circular hole of a corporate framework ain’t easy, but we did it and it was meaningful.

    2) Townhouse Music has produced some amazing music in 2017, great new Volvo work, upcoming work for Gillette and the NFL will bow peoples minds. We have a great team here all of whom compliment each other.

    3) The role of the music producer/supervisor once was about someone skilled in music studio production, orchestration, arranging and the complex and complicated craft of music composition, whereas now, it’s expanded to an additional understanding of existing music culture, and up-and-coming exceptional artists and talent.

    4) I would say the most significant trend is that CMOs and strategic planning folks are now utilizing music strategies on a more regular basis. Music is now at the table during the ideation process as opposed to an afterthought. The substantial power and might of music in the creative process is in full effect.

    Josh Rabinowitz
    EVP/Director of Music
    Townhouse/WPP



    Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19

    Friday, January 10, 2025

    The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.

    Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.

    Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.

    If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.

    At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.

    But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.

    Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More

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