(10-22-2014, 09:55 AM)Himm2 Wrote: ole will also provide support for the recording of a new EP

Quote:Haley Reinhart ‏@HaleyReinhart 3m3 minutes ago
“@HaleysTusk: #Haliens upon hearing BIG @HaleyReinhart publishing news from @olemajorlyindie
: http://youtu.be/Fmhr6cGT80o ” Haha this is perfect

Quote:Robert Ott: Ole’s Three Point Strategy

Ole’s first ten years has been nothing short of amazing. The Canadian company was founded on Sept. 28, 2004 by current Chairman/CEO Robert Ott and Chairman in Memoriam Tim Laing. It began with a $100 million investment from the Ontario Teachers Pension fund which currently owns all the ole publishing assets. That investment has now expanded to over $300 million generating an estimated annual NPS to be north of $40 million. Ole’s catalog includes over 45,000 songs and 60,000 hours of film and TV music.

Laing, whose career titles included investment banker, radio personality and broadcast journalist confided at lunch with this writer a few years ago that the the initial Pension Fund investment had been secured by showing that publishing was a highly diverse investment compared with the fund’s more traditional holdings.

Quote:Robert Ott: Each area does different things. Nashville of course covers the country music business and LA handles Pop/Urban plus sync and licensing. We also have an LA production music company, Music Box, that is very successful. Toronto handles the administrative, finance and human resources backbone of the company plus a lot of additional back office functions. So each business location has its own mandates and unique reasons to exist. They are all strong in their own way. For the short term we will remain in that configuration. Our goal for many years has been to fight the war on two fronts; Canada and the US and not to overcomplicate the situation by moving overseas.

Quote: NEKST: What’s the future for publishers look like?

Robert Ott: I expect the modern era will include doing a lot more artist development and it’s an exciting trend. Lately, we’ve adopted the business nomenclature of Rights Management, seeing ourselves operating in a broader rights management role. In that direction we have a direct deal with YouTube and are managing assets on behalf of clients in the master and audio visual realms. We are also in the secondary rights business, audio visual retransmission and I see us getting into neighboring rights in the near future. Music publishers have a natural ability to manage complex rights environments and data sets so it is our role to extend the scope of our rights management activities. We’re excited to be celebrate our tenth year in business. We’ve stuck to our three simple goals and built an incredible staff. Sometimes keeping things simple is the key to success.[/b]

http://www.nekst.biz/robert-ott-executing-three-point-strategy/