Independent technology company Melos Publishing Services has secured Josh Rabinowitz as a consultant in the U.S.
Rabinowitz will help introduce Melos more broadly into the music community and raise awareness around the complexities in royalty collections. He brings a wealth of experience in the music industry, having produced, supervised and negotiated over 10,000 tracks for branded content, television, film, social media, and major and indie recording labels–reaching billions of consumers and fans, including over 50 tracks for Super Bowl ads.
As a performer, bandleader, trombonist and recorder virtuoso, he has performed over 2,000 shows with his band The Second Step. From 2007-2017 he also curated/produced the Grey Music Seminar at The Cannes Lions International Festival. From 2008-’18, he curated the Grey Sync Session at MIDEM, initiating music discovery for global brands such as Pantene, CoverGirl, GSK, Darden and T.K Maxx, unearthing emerging artists whose music was used in ads in over 80 counties and heard by millions. Last year, Rabinowitz launched his own consultancy firm, Brooklyn Music Experience, where he puts his years of experience to good service for his clients and now to advisory boards such as Melos’.
Rabinowitz commented: “I once was a frustrated creator that saw zero to no royalties being collected to my favor and as a result I slowly started to become obsessed with music royalties. Melos offers the opportunity to empower creators, helping a lot of the people in the music industry that deserve their work to be recognized and rightfully compensated. Having developed my career in music and observing the industry for many years now, it is with great excitement that I join Melos to offer an external view of the industry and to help spread the word of mouth of the benefits of having technologies such as Melos’ platform collect royalties all around the world.”
Through its proprietary tracking and reporting platform, MusicTracker™, Melos administers on behalf of its clients the music used in their TV campaigns globally. Melos ensures that their music rights are registered accurately in each relevant international territory, as part of a global partnership with Sony/ATV, and tracks its usage in real-time with audio recognition technology. This enables Melos to maximize royalty payments through the management and expert application of data and music rights in each individual market. The company has also built a unique database of TV commercials that have been broadcast in the U.S. and the U.K. over the past three years.
Richard Cottrell, CEO of Melos Publishing, said: “There is currently a major opportunity for brands to recoup a significant percentage of their media spend by accessing a stream of royalties generated by the music in commercials. Our Music Tracker platform, in partnership with the world’s leading music publisher, provides Brands with a simple, single service that couples global coverage with local influence. Josh’s vision fully aligns with our efforts to generate awareness around the major opportunity available for Brands and composers to help recoup a significant percentage of missing royalties generated by the music in commercials. Josh has the experience from the composer side and understands better than many the agency logistics.”
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More