Our Caster Emerge Winners Are Here! After months of creativity and hustle, Play MPE is thrilled to announce the winners of our first-ever Caster Emerge contest! Ten incredible indie artists stepped up to the plate. From promoting their releases, tracking listener engagement, and keeping a close eye on their airplay, their passion blew us away. […]
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Last week, Team Play MPE scored the exclusive to distribute Searchlight 2020 winner Shawnee Kish’s brand new single “Got It Bad” to tastemakers across Canada and beyond… Our very own David Gurtina was lucky enough to speak with Shawnee at length about the Searchlight 2020 experience, her brand new single “Got it Bad” and much […]
There is a good deal of lore surrounding Alberta’s Banff Centre For The Arts and its creative heritage. There are the Indigenous stories, songs and traditions that surround the area, located in the Rockies on the side of Tunnel Mountain – known as “iniskim’ the ‘sitting buffalo’ or “big buffalo rock” in Blackfoot – a […]
Pro PR Tips from Strut Entertainment’s Samantha Pickard For Samantha Pickard, Founder and President of Toronto-based Strut Entertainment, success, personally and professionally, is about helping people achieve their dreams. Period. “Helping people, helping artists get to where they need to go, I love doing that. It’s the really exciting part of the work we do.” […]
In this age of renewed appreciation for our communities at large, and recognition of available resources, we take the opportunity to spotlight some of the many organizations and support available to musicians throughout Canada. Notably, a $100,000 fund has been announced in a partnership between The National Arts Centre and Facebook. The fund aims to […]
After you’ve had initial success promoting artists to radio, and are steadily working with increasingly higher profile clients – you’ll want to build on that success and expand. Where do you go next?
