Chuck Fishman Career Search
Music Technology Specialist and Digital Media Business Development Professional for hire
Nielsen has recently been making cut backs which has effected my employment directly and I am seeking a new position. Thank you in advance for reading this post.
For the past two years, I was the Director of Music Solutions and Data in the company’s Gracenote division, growing the business for the company’s global music metadata offering in North and Latin America. The role primarily was focused on helping cable companies, streaming media providers, music services, record labels and more to understand the value proposition of using rich music metadata for consumer search and discovery.
I am a “Music Technology Specialist and Digital Media Business Development Professional”. To continue my career development, I am targeting three types of positions at a new employer. I am keeping this pretty general but I can be more specific at an individual request.
- Buy Side Digital Media Business Development: Working at a media company (or retail brand) evaluating digital platforms / channels — including tech integration, partnerships, and content strategy — with the goal of optimizing the process of reaching, growing, engaging, monetizing audiences.
- Sell Side Digital Media Business Development: here I am thinking of bigger platforms Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, TikTok, Twitter etc and working with media / retail clients to adopt new features, utilize platform, etc.
- Strategic Partner, Digital Media Biz Dev: think agencies and consulting firms who work on a contract and campaign basis as the trusted partner to help a brand develop a digital strategy to reach, grow, engage and monetize audiences.
An overview of my career follows and I can provide a resume on direct request.
My LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckfishman/
Chuck Fishman — Career Overview
- Chuck has a unique perspective on the music industry, because he wears multiple hats as both a music producer, artist manager, and business development leader for tech companies facing the music industry.
- Chuck is a leader in the music technology space ; he started his career at CNET covering music tech as a broadcast journalist in 1999. His first radio piece for CNET was about Napster in early 2000
- Before heading to the forefront of digital transformation, Chuck developed and produced long form radio programming for CNET, Wall Street Journal, and iHeartRadio
- In 2006, Chuck left the broadcast journalism industry and The Wall Street Journal for tech giant Cisco. As a part of the team at Cisco Media Solutions Group team, he managed the company’s relationships with Warner, Universal and Sony Music groups. The Cisco offering was a content management system that could host 1000s of artist websites and scale globally with the major record labels ecommerce businesses
- In 2013, Chuck joined Acquia where as Global Director of Media and Entertainment he expanded his work beyond the music business, bringing scalable direct to consumer digital platforms to media companies. Clients Chuck brought to Acquia include Creative Artists Agency, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Television, BBC Worldwide, Warner Bros Entertainment, Entercom and Emmis Communications, iHeart Media.
- Chuck has deep tech understanding in the areas of content management systems (CMS) and the technology stacks required to deliver modern digital content and commerce experiences. His knowledge base includes the competitive landscape for CMS (e.g. Adobe, Drupal, Wordpress, Contently, custom CMS), commerce engines (Salesforce Commerce, Magento, SAP Hybris), necessary third party integrations (video / audio rich media players, CRM, social sharing) and front end frameworks (all flavors of Javascript, HTML 5, CSS).
- Most recently, Chuck lead business development for North and Latin America for Gracenote’s Global Music Data offering and Music Recognition solution. His team brought in $XX million in music tech revenues in 2018. Gracenote is a Nielsen company.
- Chuck is a prolific producer of written and video content with the purpose of generating inbound leads for sales teams. For reference, here is an aggregated list of content
- Chuck has a successful track record of launching creator focused digital music platforms, leveraging key artist and record label partnerships. For instance, in 2012 at official.fm as Director of Partnerships he secured key partners Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller, leading to 1 million mixtape downloads of the artists’ mixtapes within one week of launch of the platform
- He is a frequent collaborator with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (P-Funk). Since 2010, he manages the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame / Grammy Lifetime award winning funk group’s digital presence across platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Therefore he is deeply familiar with digital music services and their artist / management facing platforms.
- With Clinton, Chuck developed and executed successful partnerships between P-Funk and brands such as Toyota / Scion, Red Bull, Sneakersnstuff
- Chuck started his career as a musician and continues to produce, release, and perform music with FSQ (Funk Style Quality). FSQ music is mainly released by the artist run record label, Soul Clap Records
