About Kristin Grant

The reason I am in music, aside from the fact that I came from a family band is in large part due to Bob Marley. You can hear Bob's music in a law office waiting room or a motorcycle repair shop, his message is synonymous across social stereotypes and geographical barrier. It is truly transcendent. His music speaks to the true power of music, which is what drew me too and got me into the music industry in the first place. I launched my advertising start-up, built for independent labels and artists, with the intension of democratizing access to promotion. My company Westcott is a SAAS software platform that pulls in data signals from the streaming market and beyond as well as tracks the CPC price of artist audiences on Google, Facebook, Instagram, and more. When the signals in the market determine that there is an increased awareness about your artist or the CPC range for your artist hits a determined thresh-hold, our system automatically launches a hyper-target pre-loaded advertisement towards that group that is paying attention as well as parties similar to that group. We determine when to spend, who to target, how much to spend, and what to advertise in real-time. Our goal is to raise the average amount of revenue across your entire roster from catalogue to current artists. My intention within the She Is The Music community is to connect with fellow Game Changers. I would also love to utilize this community to connect with female industry powerhouses in emerging markets like Africa, to provide my platform in an effort to help break international music globally as well as into the US music market.

Work experience

  • Barrington Levy
  • 2014-2015
  • Head of Marketing
  • Universal Music Group
  • 2016-2017
  • Head of Global Streaming Strategies
  • Magna Investments
  • 2015-2016
  • Entertainment Analyst
  • Westcott Multimedia, Inc
  • 2017-Present
  • CEO

Kristin's Skills

Business
  • Analyst
  • Digital Streaming
  • Marketing

Kristin's Genres

  • Alternative Rock
  • Blues
  • Classical
  • Country
  • Dub
  • Electronic
  • Experimental
  • Folk
  • Funk
  • Grunge
  • Hip-Hop
  • House
  • Indie Rock
  • Jazz
  • Latin
  • Metal
  • Minimalism
  • New Wave
  • Pop
  • Psychedelic
  • Punk
  • R&B
  • Rap
  • Reggae
  • Reggaetón
  • Soul
  • Standards
  • Trap
  • World

Kristin's Experience

My company has evolved as an evolution of learned experiences. When I released Barrington Levy’s record, I realized that independent artists do not have the access to the data they need, when they need it to retain current fans and gain new fans while launching marketing campaigns. As an Entertainment Analyst, I got the opportunity to see how other industries like online dating, online publications like Buzz Feed, and the NBA were using data to drive growth and apply those learnings to the music industry. While at Universal I realized that access and application of streaming data alone will not move the industry forward – the way by which we assign marketing resources and the process by which we spend those resources needs to evolve from being static to dynamic in order for streaming data to be truly effective.