Music Marketing & Strategy

Music Marketing
Built for
Real Growth

Major-label strategy. Modern measurement. Meriwick builds campaigns for artists, labels, and management teams.

20 +
Years in Music Marketing
100 M+
Marketing Impressions
Spotify, Apple Music & YouTube
Campaigns Across Major Platforms

— Who We Work With

Built for Artists, Managers & Labels

Independent Artists
Preparing a major release and ready to build real audience traction—not just streams.
Artist Managers
Building long-term audience growth strategies that compound across releases.
Record Labels
Launching new projects, revitalizing catalog, or scaling emerging artists to breakout momentum.
Artists Scaling Up
Moving from early traction to sustained growth—with data-driven strategy behind every campaign.

Campaigns are tailored to release timelines, budgets, and audience development goals. If you're serious about growth, we should talk.

The Meriwick Approach

Marketing Strategy Built for the Streaming Era

Modern music discovery spans playlists, social platforms, algorithms, and fan conversion. Meriwick builds coordinated campaigns across these channels and measures performance at every step.

What We Do

From release strategy to campaign measurement, every Meriwick engagement is built around your catalog, your audience, and your growth goals.

01
Artist Growth Strategy
Campaign planning designed to expand streaming audiences and long-term fan engagement. We build full-cycle release roadmaps from strategy through execution.
02
Playlist & DSP Strategy
Targeted playlist outreach and platform optimization across Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and beyond—informed by listener data, not guesswork.
03
Digital Marketing Campaigns
Social, creator, influencer, and promotional campaigns tied directly to release strategy. Every tactic mapped to measurable platform impact.
04
Data & Analytics
Streaming analysis, campaign measurement, and performance reporting across all major platforms.

Major-label experience.
Modern measurement.

02
Major-Label Execution
With 20+ years at Interscope Records and Def Jam Recordings, we bring the scale and precision of major-label campaigns—to artists at every stage.
03
Built for Streaming-Era Growth
Playlists, DSPs, creator campaigns, Shazam velocity, TikTok momentum—we understand how modern music discovery works and build campaigns around it.
04
Long-Term Audience Development
We build real fanbases, not streaming spikes. Every strategy is designed around durable monthly listener growth and audience conversion that lasts beyond a release window.

Planning a release or campaign?

Tell us what you're working on and we'll outline how Meriwick could support your strategy.

Discuss Your Campaign

How We Work

Strategy First.
Data Throughout.

Every engagement follows a four-stage model designed to connect your marketing investment to real, measurable streaming outcomes.

01
Strategy
We map your catalog, your audience, and your goals. Then we build a campaign strategy around release windows, playlist targeting, platform priorities, and channel mix.
02
Campaign Execution
Playlist outreach, digital advertising, influencer campaigns, press, and DSP optimization—all coordinated around your timeline and budget.
03
Data Analysis
We measure campaign performance across every major platform and report what moved, with the numbers behind it.
04
Optimization
Insights from each campaign inform the next. Your strategy compounds over time—getting smarter and more precise with every release.

— Campaign Structure

What a Typical Campaign Looks Like

Most Meriwick campaigns follow a structured process—built around your release timeline, audience, and growth goals.

Engagements typically run 6–12 weeks.

01
Discovery
We review your catalog, audience data, and release timeline to understand where you are and where you need to go.
02
Strategy
We develop a campaign plan across playlists, social platforms, and discovery channels—tied to your specific release window and budget.
03
Execution
Campaign tactics launch across selected channels. Every action coordinated around your timeline and monitored in real time.
04
Measurement
Streaming growth, playlist traction, and audience growth are tracked with Meriwick's internal campaign analytics.

— EXPERIENCE

BRIAN
GAFFEY
FOUNDER, MERIWICK MARKETING & MANAGEMENT

Two decades inside major-label campaign infrastructure shaped the philosophy behind Meriwick: marketing strategy should be measurable, scalable, and directly connected to audience growth. Prior to founding Meriwick, Brian led national campaign initiatives across streaming, radio, and digital discovery channels at Interscope Records and Def Jam Recordings, helping develop systems that tracked promotional investment against streaming performance.

2017–24
Interscope Records
Marketing & Promotions Director Oversaw national campaign strategy across streaming, radio, influencer networks, and experiential channels for priority releases. Developed analytics-driven campaign frameworks linking promotional investment to measurable streaming velocity, audience growth, and cross-platform discovery signals. Directed national field teams and tastemaker networks across more than 100 markets, building scalable systems for digital discovery, playlist conversion, and cultural amplification.
2013–16
Def Jam Recordings
Marketing & Promotions Manager Executed integrated release campaigns spanning DJ networks, influencer activation, and lifestyle marketing to accelerate early discovery and audience engagement. Coordinated national promotional strategy across radio, digital platforms, and cultural touchpoints while generating large-scale media impressions and sustained campaign momentum.
2026
MBA — University of California, Davis
Marketing Analytics & AI Strategy Focused on predictive modeling, marketing experimentation, and data-driven decision systems for commercial strategy.

These experiences informed the development of Meriwick’s campaign framework, which connects marketing strategy to streaming performance through structured measurement.

Work With Meriwick

For artist and label inquiries. Whether you have a release coming or want to understand what's driving your current streams, we'd like to hear from you.

Phone
(203) 886-9555
Location
Los Angeles, CA