Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
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10/22/2011
Illinois Wesleyan University Alumni Award Ceremony
Today I was awarded the Robert M Montgomery Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from Illinois Wesleyan University. I was presented the award at the annual alumni lunch at the Shirk Center on the IWU campus. The other award winners and I were also announced at halftime at the Titan homecoming football game with the rest of [...]
06/02/2011
IWU Distinguished Young Alumni Award
Today it was announced that Illinois Wesleyan University (my alma mater) is awarding me with the 2011 Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Needless to say, it’s a huge honor and I feel incredibly humble to be chosen this year. I’ll be heading back to Bloomington for Homecoming to receive the award and to give a talk [...]
03/18/2011
Featured in Billboard’s “Music-Industry Characters You Need To Follow”
Today I was selected as one of 140 people from the music industry for Billboard’s “Music-Industry Characters You Need To Follow” writeup. They described me as “VP of direct-to-fan creative and technology at Atlantic Records. Design. Tech. Apple.” I’m among some great company and am proud to be included. Rather than describe the list for [...]
02/28/2011
Atlantic Records article on CNET News
Today, Greg Sandoval wrote an article on CNET about how Atlantic Records and our new Atlanticrecords.com strategy. The article focuses our use of the Atlantic archives, the relaunch of the AtlanticRecords.com website and how that site integrates with Facebook to customize the fan experience. Check out the full CNET article here.
11/15/2010
My Thoughts on Windows Phone 7
Full disclosure: I don’t like MOST of Microsoft’s products. I love my Xbox, but other than their console, I don’t think I have any Microsoft products in my house. I use a Mac, love my iPhone and use Hotmail as a spam dumpster. The Zune caught my interest a few years ago, and I admire [...]
10/23/2010
This week: new title, back from Minnesota, building a playground and off to MAX 2010
As I’m about to hop on my 6th flight in 7 days I thought I would add a post about some recent events. First off, I’ve been promoted to the Vice President of Direct to Fan Creative and Technology at Atlantic Records. I’m managing a team of ten project managers, designers, product developers and programmers [...]
08/17/2010
Open Screen Project
This may have been up for a while, but it’s new to me. We’ve been working closely with Adobe for a few years on their multi-screen initiatives and are now officially a member of the Open Screen Project. Were listed among some pretty impressive partners and are glad to be part of the project. In [...]
06/30/2010
Fast Company, MTV, WMG and Atlantic
This week Atlantic and Warner Music Group were the subject of a great article in Fast Company, as well as a pretty major announcement regarding our new ad partnership with MTV. I constantly feel proud to be part of a music company who is changing and innovating in a troubled industry, surrounded by extremely difficult [...]
04/30/2010
Apple to shut down Lala on May 31st
Apple purchased Lala.com a few months back and faithful Lala users have been holding their collective breaths waiting for Cupertino to let us know the fate of the popular streaming service. In my inbox this morning was the following automated message from Lala. Dear Eric, The Lala service will be shut down on May 31st. [...]
04/12/2010
Talking about the iPad with Alternative Press
Check out my thoughts on how the iPad may effect the music industry at AltPress.com. Looks like I made the cut and was quoted a few times talking about the device. The interview was purely conceptual as none of us had seen the actual hardware, but I think everything we said holds up well post-launch. [...]
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