The Mail Cart: Wednesday, Mar. 11th

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📝 A rebrand of all rebrands. Plus a big trend in the creator economy that shouldn’t be flying under the radar. And a short interview with unsung heroes behind some of the most iconic songs ever made.

💰 Fact of the day: Live Nation reached a $280 million settlement with the Department of Justice. That amounts to roughly 2 days of the company's revenue.

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1) HOLLYWOOD AIN’T DEAD YET

AvA LIVE, our new weekly live talk show, launches April 8.

What: Every Wednesday I’ll sit down with the executives, creatives, and operators shaping the future of Entertainment.

Topics: Career advice, resources and inspiring stories that will help cover the industry in a fresh way and map the road ahead for the next generation.

Rules: No corporate speak allowed.

🔗 Sneak peek below (future episodes will be in the 20-30 min range):

2) Creator & social agency Whalar Group is launching Lighthouse Studios with Cole Bennett from Lyrical Lemonade

The two parties are linking up to ‘build a TV-like schedule of creator content.’

Takeaways:

Creators are becoming networks. Whalar is betting that creators with built-in trust and audience can program recurring “TV” on YouTube without needing traditional studios first.
Infrastructure is opportunity (for you). Many creators are incredible at creating, and not always building the machine around it. These partnerships unlock huge opportunities to scale into real media businesses: production muscle, operating capital, and ad sales.
Risk vs. Oversized Outcomes: A lot of these similar bets by companies will fail, but 1 massive win will outweigh a bunch of losses.

3) Fox Entertainment named Billy Parks head of Fox Creator Studios

Background: The digital-first unit it unveiled at CES 2026 its goal to work directly with online creators. Parks arrives from the Slow Ventures’ creator fund, with earlier stops at The Chernin Group and Conan O’Brien’s CONAN venture. Traditional is pulling from the creator world at the exec level as well now.

The studio already partners with Gordon Ramsay, Rosanna Pansino and Sorted Food, and plans to expand into more creator-led franchises.

CREATORS CREATORS CREATORS

4) Doug Liman (Swingers, Go, The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith etc.) next project will use AI to create all sets & locations.

5) ICYMI: Wasserman has officially rebranded to ‘The Team’…

Every week we drop our favorite podcast & book recs.

Today we have Dave Franco and Bobby Moynihan on JOLLY to eat some very British-sounding food.

They talk about their new project Hoppers, the audience reaction to the film, and try some pretty interesting candy?

Another amazing moment facilitated by the team at Central Talent Booking.

Our new job board features 210+ early career roles in Entertainment, including:

💼 Creative Strategist, Twitch Brand Partnership Studio - Twitch - Apply Here

💼 Guest Producer (Hot Smart Rich ) - FLIGHTSTORY - Apply Here

💼 Admin Assistant (Advertising) - Spotify - Apply Here

💼 Content Innovation Manager - L’Oreal - Apply Here

💼 Brand Influencer Coordinator - Flighthouse Media - Apply Here

💼 Junior Producer (Viral Marketing) - Mr. Beast - Apply Here

💼 Executive Assistant (Film Music) - NBCUniversal - Apply Here

💼 Creator Management Associate - Publicis - Apply Here

💼 Strategic Development Assistant - CAA - Apply Here

💼 Fair Marketing - Art Basel Miami - Apply Here

💼 Influencer Coordinator (Brand) - Create Music Group - Apply Here

💼 Talent Coordinator - Digital Brand Architects - Apply Here

💼 Day to Day Manager (Creators & Creatives) - Live Nation - Apply Here

💼 Long-Form Editor - Night - Apply Here

💼 Digital Marketing Assistant - Hachette Book Group - Apply Here

🎒 Artist & Promoter Relations Intern - Live Nation - Apply Here

🎒 Externship - Bonnaroo 2026 - Apply Here

🎒 Business + Legal Affairs Intern (NY) - A24 - Apply Here

🎒 PR Intern (Summer) - Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis - Apply Here

Today we sit down with unsung heroes of the music industry.. the producers & engineers behind some of the biggest songs of the past decades.

The group has worked with artists from Taylor Swift to Fleetwood Mac and The Rolling Stones to Jay Z.

"Looking back at your body of work, what career choice had the biggest long-term impact on where you ended up?”

Elliot Scheiner:

In 2002 I had already worked on a number of Surround 5.1 mixes. It occurred to me that there wasn't a likely way for listeners to hear this format. In thinking about how previous formats developed successfully....It seemed to be in the car. At a trade show in N.Y. for car stereo manufacturers I was asked to speak. After I finished speaking I went to every manufacturer and talked to them about putting a surround system in cars they were working with. I suggested that I could work with them in finding out how to install and make the system great sounding. Every company had the same answer. Very complicated and why would we need you. My answer was that I had created a lot of the music you grew up with. I recorded them and know how it should sound when it's played back.

About 6 months later I received a call from Panasonic Automotive. They had thought about the idea and liked it. They claimed they had a car manufacturer that might be interested in this. The car company was Acura and they were certainly interested. The system was called ELS which is my nickname and was on every Acura for more than 20 years. This was a huge change in my life and earned me more than I ever made in the music business.

Chuck Ainlay:

One of the very first decisions I made was to purposefully concentrate on becoming the very best engineer that I was capable of becoming, rather than chasing after my ultimate goal of producing music for artists.

I figured that the production would come when I was ready for it and all the while I was engineering records, I was learning how to make records from the best producers. As it turned out, that’s exactly how it all worked out me. Mark Knopfler ask me to produce his first solo album which turned into subsequent albums and then the country world opened up to me when the King of country music, George Strait ask me to start producing his albums.

Jimmy Douglass:

In the early nineties, I had shifted my career as it had been, (success n Rock and Roll and R+B ) making records to doing Jingles and Post production.

Somehow I got invited to go away from NYC to Rochester NY (6hrs away from home) to engineer and work on a hip hop group named Jodeci...the only thing was it actually less hourly money, and it was going to last for 5 months that I would have to give up my home life (this was the condition of accepting the job). I made the (decision) choice to give up the comfort of home and brave it out in the wild. It was here that I met Timbaland and we struck up a bond and were working together - and 5 months turned into 2 and 1/2 years. The pay got better and the rest of what it did for reviving my career is history. It was a new beginning for me, creatively and all the rest. Totally the best choice

You can follow the group and stay informed on future plans on their Instagram page here, and they'll also be performing at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Saturday, April 4.