BurnLounge Founder and CEO to Address Digital Music Strategies and Company's Business Model at Upcoming Events

BurnLounge Founder and CEO to Address Digital Music Strategies and Company's Business Model at Upcoming Events

Alex Arnold, Founder & CEO, BurnLounge, to Speak at the Urban Network Entertainment and Marketing Summit and the 2006 Harvard Business School Entertainment and Media Conference

NEW YORK, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- BurnLounge, the next-generation community-powered digital music service that enables passionate music fans to sell the music they love to friends or like-minded individuals, announced today that Founder and CEO Alex Arnold will address digital music strategies and BurnLounge's innovative business model at the Urban Network Entertainment and Marketing Summit this week at the Riviera Resort and Racquet Club in Palms Springs, Calif. Additionally, he will speak toward digital music consumption and the future of the industry at the 2006 Harvard Business School Entertainment and Media Conference in Boston, Mass.

Arnold will participate as a panelist on "Digital Strategies in the Business of Music" on Friday, April 7. Arnold and fellow panelists will discuss marketing and selling digital music content through non-traditional distribution methods and unique business models which support such methods, including BurnLounge.

Arnold is also slated to speak at the 2006 Harvard Business School Entertainment and Media Conference in Boston, Mass. The panel, "The Next Big Thing" is scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 8, and will address new ways in which content is being consumed today and how it will change in the future.

BurnLounge is a unique service that provides fans with proprietary software for purchase and an expansive catalog of music from major and independent record labels, enabling them to create and operate their own digital music stores. Additionally, the service empowers record labels and artists with an innovative platform to promote their music by exposing their work to the dynamic BurnLounge community.

As the founder and CEO of BurnLounge, Arnold's past business experience as a successful marketing executive combined with his passion for music led him to create BurnLounge in 2005. Furthermore, he has contributed to the success of companies in the network and affiliate marketing industry including Excel Communications and Lexxus International. Arnold's foray into the entertainment industry came with the introduction to the group "Day and Night" from Grammy Award winning writer/producer Michael Mani, which led to the formation of the independent record label 3:AM Music. In the early part of 2005, 3:AM Music landed a major production deal with Interscope/Geffen Records.

About BurnLounge

BurnLounge is the first, next-generation, community-powered digital music service enabling music fans to discover and enjoy music, as well as operate their own digital music stores and evangelize the music they love. Through this innovative model, BurnLounge provides record labels and artists with a new fan-driven promotional channel. For additional information, visit BurnLounge at www.burnlounge.com.

Source: BurnLounge

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