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Ryan McMahan Is Playing the Long Game
The Nashville artist manager built Oath around a patient idea: a career should outlast its loudest moment. His work with Reyna Roberts, Blanco Brown and others shows what happens when management begins with identity rather than the next release.
The Publicity Firm That Treats Taste Like Infrastructure
Tell All Your Friends has spent two decades making a quiet wager: in music publicity, the valuable thing is not volume. It is knowing which story belongs in which inbox - and why anyone should care today.
Criteria Entertainment Built a Borderless Back Office for Latin Music
Diana Rodríguez left the major-label tower and built the connective tissue artists rarely see: one small, multilingual team coordinating management, publicity and market entry across the Americas. The useful lesson is not glamour. It is patience, local knowledge and the discipline to say no.
Starlight PR Sells the Part of Music Fame Nobody Sees
For independent artists, the hardest problem is rarely making one more post. It is making every post, interview, playlist pitch and press mention tell the same story at the same moment.
Scott Robinson Bet on Careers, Not Hits - and Built Dualtone to Last
For 25 years, the Dualtone co-founder has practiced a stubborn kind of patience: sign fewer artists, share the economics clearly, and give good records enough time to find their people.
Dualtone Built a Record Label for the Artists the Majors Left Behind - Then the Long Game Paid Off
The Nashville label survived the CD collapse, a tornado and streaming's brutal arithmetic by making a peculiar promise: fewer artists, clearer deals and careers measured in albums, not weekends.
Believe Built the Missing Middle Between Uploading a Song and Building a Career
The Paris company turned digital distribution into a ladder: self-serve tools at the bottom, local expertise in the middle, and full artist development at the top. Now it is adding publishing, deeper marketing, and a responsible-AI position to the same system.