Online pre-cleared music house CueSongs has appointed Paul Sampson as SVP Global Business Development.
Sampson will begin the newly-created role with immediate effect, reporting directly into Christina Vaughan, CEO of CueSongs.
The exec (pictured) was formerly VP, Business Development, Europe at Music Dealers, where he developed the company’s advertising and television business as well as expanding their direct-to-brand operation following an investment from Coca Cola.
Prior to this, Samson spent five years at Extreme Music as Director of Sales and Marketing based out of Los Angeles.
At CueSongs, Sampson’s main aim will be to prove the business model for pre-cleared commercial music in online media – especially in the world of digital video.
Paul Sampson said, “I am very excited to join CueSongs. It is uniquely placed and equipped to capitalise on a burgeoning but largely untapped and un-catered for market with such enormous potential.
“The opportunity for CueSongs to become the market leader in providing quality, pre-cleared commercial music for the ever growing community of online content creators and aggregators is huge, and something that I am very much excited to be part of.”
“The opportunity for CueSongs to become the market leader in providing quality, pre-cleared commercial music for online creators is huge.”
Paul Sampson
Christina Vaughan, CEO of CueSongs says, “This has been an exciting year of change for CueSongs. In building a new team, I have been very focused on how we deliver relevant commercial music to the millions of professional creators in the YouTube and new media platforms who understand that better commercial music delivers better Return on Investment for them.
“Emotional engagement is the key to success in online content and in representing the best artists, labels and music, we know that we are a bridge between two very exciting worlds that are creating a whole new revenue stream for the music industry.
“We very much feel we are at the forefront of an idea whose time has come. Paul has excellent credentials, he understands music and he understands video production. We are very excited to be working together and leading such an exciting charge”.
CueSongs was founded by Peter Gabriel. It boasts a catalogue in excess of 30,000 pre-cleared tracks, which have been cleared by copyright owners such as (publishing) BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing, Sony ATV, Imagem, Bucks, Peer, Music Sales and Warner Chappell UK.
Labels who have pre-cleared recordings with CueSongs include Sony Music UK, Ministry of Sound Infectious, Cooking Vinyl, Skint and Distiller Records.Music Business Worldwide
