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HS&E join forces with Music Dealers
MUMBAI: Brand engagement network, Havas Sports & Entertainment (HS&E), and Music Dealers, an international music licensing agency, have announced a global strategic partnership to provide an innovative music offering for brands interested in effectively integrating music into their communications. India will also be extended this offering.
This partnership forms part of HS&E’s strategy to strengthen its brand engagement and entertainment services by providing clients with unique music industry expertise and guidance as brands look to develop more unique and meaningful content.
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Chicago-based, with offices in the US, Mexico City, and London, Music Dealers’ extensive knowledge of the global music industry, coupled with a roster of more than 20,000 emerging artists spanning 80 countries, complements HS&E’s global footprint of 35 offices in 20 markets. Music Dealers is helping provide HS&E’s extensive client portfolio with a wide range of specialised music-related communications services including content creation, strategic music programs with the freshest breakout artists, brand music partnerships and live music activations among others.
In addition, HS&E and Music Dealers are currently working together to engage fans around a number of large-scale events for mutual client, The Coca-Cola Company.
Through its experiential marketing arm ignition, HS&E is organising Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the Olympic Torch Relay for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games to bring the Olympic flame to Russian fans in 2,900 towns and cities across 123 days. As the strategic music lead for Coca-Cola’s Olympic Torch relay, Music Dealers is supervising the creation of the official Coca-Cola Olympic Anthem, as well as live music performances throughout the relay.
For the 2014 FIFA World Cup, HS&E, through ignition, is also organising the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour on behalf of Coca-Cola, which will travel to 95 destinations in 86 countries, while Music Dealers will be creating adapted versions of the official Coca-Cola World Cup anthem using local artists from select key markets.
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HS&E president and global CEO Lucien Boyer comments, “We are delighted with this unique collaboration that will provide our mutual clients with an unprecedented global offering in the areas of sports, music and entertainment marketing. Brands are looking for content that creates conversations and connections with people. As such, we look forward to helping them leverage music in innovative and locally-relevant ways, thanks to Music Dealers’ unrivalled industry knowledge and our understanding of fan communities. Our common entrepreneurial spirit and global reach will help us expand the reach of music and create personalized experiences that meaningfully engage fans everywhere.”
Music Dealers CEO and co-founder Eric Sheinkop comments, “Music Dealers provides the most authentic music for today’s advertising and marketing, television, film and gaming industries, while breaking new bands across the globe. We’re honoured and excited to be working with such an experienced and trusted network as Havas Sports & Entertainment to provide brands with ways to maximise the power of music to engage their audiences across multiple communication platforms. From discovering and sourcing the best artists and music through our Discovery Tool to receiving bespoke creations via our professional crowdsourcing community, this partnership is one of many exciting new initiatives from Music Dealers which reinforces our vision of creating more value for brands through music.”
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Beep App launches Gen-Z career platform, clocks 30,000 plus placements
Pune startup turns scrolling into career action with learn-explore-earn model
PUNE: Beep App has rolled out its newly positioned career-focused app aimed at Gen-Z users, as it looks to bridge what it calls a growing gap between exposure and employability among young Indians.
Formerly known as EventBeep, the platform is built around a simple but timely idea: turning everyday scrolling into meaningful career action. The app targets students and early professionals, offering a unified space to explore career options, learn relevant skills and access internships and job opportunities.
At a time when short-form content dominates screen time, Beep is attempting to flip the script by embedding structured, career-oriented insights within a familiar scroll-based interface. The idea is not to disrupt user behaviour, but to redirect it.
The platform spans a wide range of fields, including artificial intelligence, product management, design and data analytics. It provides users with insights into role expectations, required skills and step-by-step career pathways, supported by inputs from industry practitioners.
At the heart of the offering is a “learn, explore, earn” model that integrates discovery, skill-building and hiring into one ecosystem. The company says this closed-loop approach is already gaining traction, with over 30,000 placements facilitated so far.
“Gen-Z does not lack ambition; what they often lack is structured direction,” said Beep App founder and CEO Saurabh Mangrulkar. “The Beep App is designed to organise that exposure into actionable pathways so users can move from intent to execution with greater confidence.”
The launch comes amid a broader shift in India’s job market towards skills-first hiring, where practical experience and demonstrable capabilities are increasingly valued alongside academic qualifications.
Founded in 2021, Beep App has grown steadily within the student ecosystem, connecting over 6.5 million users with opportunities across more than 1,500 colleges and 7,800 hiring companies.
Looking ahead, the company plans to deepen its content across emerging sectors, expand its hiring network and build more personalised career pathways tailored to user behaviour.
As Gen-Z continues to navigate a complex and fast-evolving job market, platforms that can turn curiosity into clarity may well shape the next wave of career discovery.
