Universal’s merch company, Bravado, appoints Epic Rights co-founder Jesper Poulsen as General Manager

Merchandise is big business again for the major music companies. According to its financial filings, Universal Music Group generated €363 million ($429m) from ‘Merch and Other’ in 2021, up 45.4%…

Nicholas Goldberg: When bathrooms have naming rights, has branding gone too far?

It took me a few moments standing there outside the bathrooms at the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles before I fully grasped that some fundraising genius had actually sold…