MySpace has offered MTV Networks’ EVP Digital Music and Media Courtney Holt the top job at the newly launched MySpace Music, CNET reports. We’ve confirmed this through our own sources, and we believe Holt has all but accepted the position and is in the final stages of contract negotiation.
The hunt for a CEO is nearly a year old. Earlier this year we reported on some of the early candidates. Last month we reported that ex-Facebooker Owen Van Natta was interviewing for the position, but those discussions were somewhat complicated by a simultaneous effort by Van Natta to sell Project Playlist to MySpace as well.
Currently Holt is Executive Vice President, Digital Media, MTV Networks Music and Logo Group where he oversees all digital initiatives.
That picture is priceless.
Worst. Headshot. Ever.
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Deb would have provided a name tag and vest.
He looks like the dude from the Mummy.
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why the hell is head sideways in the photo?
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Courtney would be a great guy for the job. He’s been in music all of his career. He knows how to manage in a highly corporate environment, which MySpace Music will be. And for a corporate guy, he has a really impressive understanding of the user experience.
Good luck!
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Didn’t mtv just launch their whole online music video section? I would imagine that Courtney had to be a major player in that initiative…. would be a big loss to mtv if he took off.
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Myspace traffic is falling like a rock and they face overwhelming pressure from Facebook. There answer is to hire the guy that created MTV’s Urge. Do you remember the Urge digital music service? I barely do.
Explain to me again how a music guys is going to compete against Mark and his crew at Facebook. Facebook just got a gift and didn’t even know about it.
Maybe cause MySpace actually makes money and Facebook hasn’t turned up a single penny.
@John Foster, Correction, Courtney did not create Urge, Michale Bloom and Jason Hirschorn have. On the other side, how come people with marketing, creative PR backgrounds always end up running tech / interactive initiatives, ultimately running them into the ground!?
He looks so sad!
The look in that pic clearly indicates that he must also be the president of NAMBLA
Courtney is a great choice period, the guy brought A&M then Interscope to the web. I was around when he forged cost effective digital solutions for both company and artists and created real reach at a time when the music industry was choking napster and others…
MTV is fortunate to have him, and if he jump to MySpace i have a feeling he’ll continue to advance the music to user cause!
Good luck Kid!
MTV? They don’t even play music anymore.
@dimitry, this is the same guy who milked A&M / Interscope paying a buddy of his to build a CMS for the labels. He then opens a bar with the same buddy like a year later, Hmmm I wonder how they raised the capitol? Way to bill it back to the artists!
They’re lucky – this guy gets it, and is smart, down to earth and works hard.
Courtney is one of the smartest people I know, and as an added bonus he loves music. If he takes the job I’d expect big things to happen for MySpace. You can count on it.
Hopefully, he will have the desire to push the envelope with the technology that is already available. I’d love see Myspace Music actually innovate the music industry for real. First, as anyone that has seen CNN.com Live knows, internet video streams are like watching television now. Myspace Music has a real opportunity to become a global streaming version of MTV. I’d love to see a weekly live music program with an in-studio audience, a global streaming version of the Myspace Music Awards (similar to the MTV music awards but worldwide), and other content that will engage. What artist wouldn’t want to play to Myspace Music’s global audience of 160,000,000. Imagine debuting a new CD that way. And since it’s the web, the audience could push one button below the live video streams and have access to every song the artist ever did. It would be a live version of a point of purchase display that reaches 160,000,000. Now that’s what I call revolutionary.
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