Utopia Music is a Venture Capital-Backed company based in Europe, with headquarters in Switzerland and offices in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The company's ecosystem uses artificial intelligence and data transparency to improve entertainment productions while tracking music metadata and attributing royalties. It was founded in 2016 solely for the music industry with the vision, ‘Fair Pay for every Play.’
Utopia allows Music Creators, Publishers, Labels, and Collection Societies to enable growth for the entire industry by allowing them to focus on their strengths. Reducing operative overhead, X-raying growth opportunities, and helping Music grow into an actual asset class, the company allows the Industry to finally become its best self. It is creating an ecosystem where music & tech foster creativity & joy.
According to PitchBook, Utopia has raised $7.56M in funding in 5 rounds. Utopia Music has been on an acquisition spree since September 2021, snapping up companies. It has acquired 8 organizations in total, its most recent acquisition was Absolute Label Services on Feb 24, 2022.
Utopia’s B2B customer wanted to partner with the company and get a GAP analysis for one of their Music Catalogs. There was no team for the mission, so Utopia created a temporary SWAT team with members from different Business Units to tackle this challenge.
Our Interim Technical Product Manager joined Utopia to represent the Platform team in the SWAT team. We’ve empowered and motivated the team to complete this on time (within a month) by realigning priorities and unblocking business units from the Platform so that Utopia can provide their B2B client with a top-notch and transparent GAP analysis report. As a result, this initiative received further sponsorship to continue.
There were a lot of UK stations that were not mapped with their feeds in the Utopia Database and a few were not present in the database at all. We ensured that all stations were properly mapped to their correct feeds and showed the result in a .csv file.
We sensed a lack of communication among different teams hence we created channels for every task with all the stakeholders who were required to work on that task. We orchestrated the priorities in the channels to make sure everyone was aware of their work and could unblock each other.
The initiative's scope was not defined in a way anyone could read and comprehend. So, to ensure that all the stakeholders were well aware of the goals, we developed an internal plan mentioning the goals and the tasks in a way easily understood by anyone new to the topic.
💡 Improved the team’s morale through regular communication, which helped them own their tasks.
💡 Defined clear goals, roles and responsibilities.
💡 Removed dependency by unblocking teams on time.
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