As an international expert on rights management & sync, wkdj’s Patrick Joest features in this piece with his take on the topic: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/recycling-von-songs-wie-ki-neue-musik-generiert-dlf-kultur-90e01124-100.html
Swedish financial institution Bluestep picked the wonderful “Intro” to the Stimming x Lambert album “Exodus” for their “Välkommen som du är” campaign. wkdj co-publishes Stimming with peermusic, and brought the deal over the finish line.
French high-end fashion brand AZ Factory picked Stimming’s classic tune “November Morning” for their tribute fashion show video “Love Is Love”, commemorating the late Alber Elbaz.
Renowned Electronica artist Stimming has chosen wkdj and Peermusic to look after his compositions around the globe. We are honored that Stimming has entrusted us with his art, and already have a few sync placements in the making. More on that soon.
Effective immediately, Patrick is starting to support the music team of digital distributor Zebralution as a consultant, to expand its service offering for artists and labels. More on this on Zebralution’s website.
wkdj team member Patrick Joest has started to advise Berlin-based start-up Cyanite.ai in the areas of product & business development. Cyanite offers amazing solutions around music analysis, tagging and similarity search based on their own, very advanced AI technology. More on this on LinkedIn.
Music consulting and rights clearance by WKDJ’s Patrick Joest/musicwise for the Austrian insurance Wiener Städtische’s campaign. Agency: Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann #füreinandersorgen. Song: “I’ll Stand By You” (Hynde/Kelly/Steinberg). More on the campaign here (German).
Los Angeles & London based music house The Elements invited Patrick to curate a Spotify playlist with tunes he has listened to throughout this year. Enjoy the playlist here.
Lambert, represented by 380 Grad Management and therefore part of the WKDJ network, just created the very emotional recording for this very emotional new Vodafone campaign. Now airing on all major TV stations and online in Germany. Congratulations, Lambert!
Patrick gave a lecture & workshop on international sync licensing/marketing of music for TV & Film at the Recorded Music Summer School, an initiative of the Hamburg Music Business Association. “Sharing and passing on my knowledge to a new generation of music execs is always a great and rewarding honor and pleasure”, said Patrick Joest.