Spotify
Ian Geller is Global Head of Business Development at Spotify. He runs all strategic partnerships, making the leading personalized music streaming platform accessible everywhere. Beforehand, Ian worked with Pandora for 9 years. He oversaw hundreds of partnerships for Pandora in Consumer Electronic, Mobile, and Auto brands with a goal to make the services available anytime, anywhere. Ian played a key role in building up the Mobile version of Pandora, reaching the milestone of this personalized radio service offered in more than 1,000 different ways for people to listen to music.
He was previously Director of Product Management at Virgin Mobile USA, where he was responsible for defining Virgin’s mobile music strategy and development. Ian’s career began as a project manager in CTNY, a pioneer in the development of wireless data services.
Spotify
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Spotify is an audio and media streaming service that hosts music, podcasts and tv shows. Founded in 2008, Spotify has grown to one of the largest streaming platforms in the world, offering over 70 million tracks to its 360+ million users across 170+ markets. They are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in over a dozen countries. Spotify’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify helps users to discover, manage, and share music on their phone, computer or tablet by browsing through the collections of friends, artists, and celebrities, by creating a radio station, or by curating their own playlists. A leader in revenue generation for the music industry, over 1,000 artists generated over $1 million on Spotify in 2021, 450 generations more than $2 million, and 130 generated over $5 million. Spotify also paid out over $1 billion dollars to publishing rights holders (songwriters and producers) in 2021.