Jonas Woost

Current

Head of Music at Last.fm

Past

Radio Syndication Manager at Ministry of Sound
Communications & Publicity at Kickin Music Ltd
Webmaster at PIAS Recordings

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Jonas Woost’s Experience

Head of Music

Last.fm

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)

November 2005 — Present (3 years)

• Content acquisition - negotiating deals with content owners to license their music for usage on Last.fm
• Account management - running a team that liaises with labels and aggregators on a daily basis
• Music sponsorship - working with the advertising sales team to create music sponsorship opportunities
• Festival partnerships - liaising with music festivals and negotiate media sponsorship opportunities
Radio Syndication Manager

Ministry of Sound

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Music industry)

April 2005 — November 2005 (8 months)

• Radio Sales – Finding new clients for the radio syndication network by liaising with existing event or recording partners all over the world or by cold calling potential new clients.
• Account Management – Making sure that existing clients are happy with the service provided and therefore renewing their contracts.
• New Business Development – Working on new strategies and ideas to be flexible in a ever changing Media business environment. Examples of new ideas are commercializing “podcasts” and bringing the existing Ministry of Sound radio station on the satellite TV service “Sky”.
Communications & Publicity

Kickin Music Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)

November 2001 — April 2005 (3 years 6 months)

• Press promotion - Making sure that specialist press, newspapers and regional press in the UK and around the world cover our single and album releases
• Radio promotion - Making sure that our singles are getting maximum exposure by being played on specialist national & regional dance shows mainly in the UK.
• DJ promotion - Providing the appropriate DJs with our singles in order to get plays in clubs prior to release.
• E-business - Working closely together with our IT department make sure that our website is constantly up-to-date and our customers get e-mail newsletters on a regular basis.
Webmaster

PIAS Recordings

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)

August 1998 — October 2001 (3 years 3 months)

• Developing the first website for the German arm of PIAS (Play It Again Sam); therefore liaising with all departments of the company to research their individual requirements for the website.
• Programming the website www.piasrecordings.de in HTML; also updating it and other artist websites on a weekly basis.