Jonny D in Fast Company Magazine and on N.P.R’s Talk Of The Nation
January 27, 2011 by admin
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Jonny Dubowsky of Jonny Lives!
Jonny Dubowsky, 29, has exploited corporate partnerships to get exposure for his indie band, Jonny Lives! The band debuted its single, “Get Steady,” on an EA video game, teamed up with Nokia to film a music video with one of its cameras, and then launched the video at 900 American Eagle stores.
“Our song ‘Get Steady’ was chosen out of the blue to be on EA’s MVP Baseball 2004, which wound up selling 3.5 million copies. EA paid us $30,000 dollars; I used that money to fund a tour in England. Two years later, we can still feel the exposure. When we released our debut album, people said, ‘We know “Get Steady” from the game.’
I have a manager now whose only job is to do corporate sponsorships. He made the deal with Nokia, in which we used its digital video camera to make the ‘Get Steady’ video. I’m really fascinated with technology and the way it’s shifting how we experience music as a culture, so it was a no-brainer. It was really cool because the company understood our indie-rock sensibility. Plus, when you work with a corporate sponsor, it falls outside your deal with a record label. That makes it a great revenue stream.
Later that same year, Jonny Dubowsky of Jonny Lives! and Rock ‘n Renew appeared on N.P.R’s “Talk Of The Nation” with Andy Carvin to discuss the outcome of the article with EA Sports Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing, Steve Schnur and Cora Daniels, author, Fast Company magazine series “The New Music Moguls”; author, Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless
You can listen to the N.P.R “Talk of The Nation” episode here:
