Strategic Partners and Thought Leaders

Catch Media has formed strong relationships with licence holders and thought leaders from the entertainment industry.

Music

The world’s largest music labels have all signed Play Anywhere^® licenses for their music content. Catch Media has also entered into agreements with all of the major societies (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC) and publishers (Warner Chappell and the Harry Fox Agency).

Entertainment

In 2008 Catch Media formed a strategic partnership with WME Entertainment, which represents writers, producers, actors, and directors from top TV shows in the US. Ari Emanuel, WME’s founder and Co-CEO, has been a passionate advocate of Catch Media and serves on our advisory board.

Thought Leaders

We have established a panel of some of the world’s foremost respected technology, entertainment and finance experts to provide strategic input and advice.

Ari Emanuel, Advisor to the Board, is a founding partner of WME Entertainment, partner at InterTalent, senior agent at International Creative Management and Director of Live Nation Entertainment.

James Kahan, Member of the Board, is the former Senior EVP of Corporate Development at AT&T and previously held managerial positions at Bell Laboratories and Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.

Ronald Altbach, Member of the Board, is President of Regeneration Capital Group LLC, CEO of Cross Media Marketing Corporation, Vice Chairman of Rosecliff Inc. and began his career with the Beach Boys.

Yoshitaro Kumagai, Senior Advisor–Strategic Partnerships, has been an advisor to domestic and international start-ups and corporations, including Pure Digital (acquired by Cisco for $590million). Yoshitaro has also held senior management positions at Vivitar and Mead Corporation

Dan Adler, Strategist, is the founder and former head of New Media at CAA (Creative Artists Agency) and a former VP of Walt Disney Imagineering.

Other partners

The Grammy Foundation, established to cultivate the appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture, has signed an agreement with Catch Media to promote the Play Anywhere^® system.

Catch Media continues to be at the forefront of industry developments, including via our active involvement with Ultra Violet (formerly the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem)–a consortium of digital entertainment companies, including movie studios, digital device manufacturers and electronics retailers–that is tasked with standardizing Digital Rights Management (DRM) practices.