Jim Cook on Picking the Right Track: Five Hours of Listening

Jim Cook on Picking the Right Track: Five Hours of Listening

Jim Cook is a producer, director and co-owner of CookHouse Media, a Nashville production company ...
Latin Music Genres: A Creator's Guide to 16 Styles

Latin Music Genres: A Creator's Guide to 16 Styles

Latin music isn't one genre. It's an umbrella covering dozens of styles from Latin America, Spain, ...
Instagram Music Library: What's In It, What's Missing

Instagram Music Library: What's In It, What's Missing

The Instagram music library is four catalogs sharing one search bar. It holds licensed songs from ...
How to Add Music to Instagram Posts, Stories, and Reels

How to Add Music to Instagram Posts, Stories, and Reels

To add music to an Instagram post, pick your photo or video, tap Next until you reach the final ...
Walker Beard on the Second Mountain Every Band Has to Climb

Walker Beard on the Second Mountain Every Band Has to Climb

Walker Beard has been on most sides of the live music business. He played in a well-regarded Athens ...
Teddy Cheek of The Escape Game on Boy Bands and Escape Rooms

Teddy Cheek of The Escape Game on Boy Bands and Escape Rooms

Teddy Cheek is VP of retail operations at Great Big Game Show, the live game show experience built ...
Music Rights for Podcasts: What You Actually Need to Clear

Music Rights for Podcasts: What You Actually Need to Clear

Music rights for podcasts break down into two separate copyrights you have to clear before you use ...
How to Clip a Podcast for Reels (and Everywhere Else)

How to Clip a Podcast for Reels (and Everywhere Else)

You clip a podcast by pulling one strong, self-contained moment out of a full episode and reshaping ...
Rebecca Rechtszaid: Creators Are Media Companies Now

Rebecca Rechtszaid: Creators Are Media Companies Now

Rebecca Rechtszaid took 13 years of vocal lessons, played in South Florida garage bands, and ...
Jennifer Pyken on Music Supervision: A Song Is Never Just a Song

Jennifer Pyken on Music Supervision: A Song Is Never Just a Song

Jen Pyken has supervised music on more than a thousand episodes of television. She was nominated ...
Joe Koufman: Reach Out Before You Need Something

Joe Koufman: Reach Out Before You Need Something

Joe Koufman has introduced brands to marketing agencies more than a thousand times. He has also ...
Steak Shapiro: The 30-Second Commercial Is Over

Steak Shapiro: The 30-Second Commercial Is Over

Steak Shapiro mailed cassette tapes to 14 program directors he had never met, got one call back, ...