All Things Video

Steve Levy is the Co-Founder & CEO of BPM Media and the BPM Network. Steve is a serial entrepreneur who started Moonshine Music to introduce electronic music to mainstream America in the nineties. The company was partially acquired by what is now Entertainment One in 2002, and Steve went on to launch BPM Media, which includes a music lifestyle ad network and YouTube / SoundCloud multi-channel network. Steve has worked with some of the world’s top artists, including Afrojack, Nicky Romero, Paul Oakenfold, and many more. In this episode, we talk about the transformation of the music industry over the past few decades. We discuss the democratization of content creation and broadcasting, the resulting disintermediation of gatekeepers, and the shift from physical distribution to digital downloads to streaming. Finally, we consider how technological changes like smartphones and file sharing necessitated a change in business models, and we predict similar disruption in the film and television industries. Hos