Sean Taylor and Jacorey Barkley are the proud founders of ContraBrand, a music-promotion marketing agency that helps aspiring talent flourish within the music and entertainment industry. Both entrepreneurs are passionate about music and everything it represents, taking great pride in using systematic marketing approaches rooted in popular principles seen across the tech industry. For anyone who is an aspiring musician, the agency offers opportunities that were previously non-existent, especially for independent artists.
“We are introducing aspiring talent to the music industry by providing them with the right set of tools needed for their promotion and marketing.” Said Jacorey Barkley, the Founder of ContraBrand, while talking about the company’s aim. Jacorey is an experienced Digital Music Marketer with a demonstrated history of working in the public relations and communications industry.
Furthermore, he is also skilled in marketing campaigns, event management, market research, and management.
“We are working with artists across multiple genres and stages, some have major label backing and others are completely independent. What makes us different is that we’ve established a process that enables us to achieve quantifiable and repeatable success regardless of who the artist is,” Sean added. According to the Founders, ContraBrand is a full-service marketing agency that specializes in brand strategy for the music artists of the future.
In addition, Sean Taylor and Jacorey Barkley are using technological principles to achieve success in music promotion and marketing. Since both founders have strong backgrounds in content creation and social media, they’ve added a unique twist to their approach. In fact, ContraBrand exists at the intersection of cultural influence and programmatic advertising. It’s the combination of these multi-faceted words that truly enables the company to thrive. Recently, the company achieved a significant milestone by building the tick-tock media strategy to help artist 24kGoldn achieve the number one song in the world.
“We strongly believe that with the right team, artists can achieve monetization and begin to earn a living from the work that they do .” Said Sean Taylor, the Founder of ContraBrand, while sharing his thoughts regarding the ongoing trends in the world of music. “We started off by focusing on giving artists access to information through the BRANDMAN NETWORK, now we’re focused on helping artists execute .” He further added.