Why Warner Music Group Entered the Metaverse with Oana Ruxandra - Chief Digital Officer, EVP, Business Development WMG

Oana Ruxandra is the Chief Digital Officer & Executive Vice President, Business Development at Warner Music Group. On this episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, we talk about how Warner Music have been one of the really early adopters and first movers in this space, embracing the metaverse, web 3.0 and the new opportunities that this shift will bring to artists and fans of music in all forms. We cover their major partnership with The Sandbox as well as Genies and dive into how Oana and WMG are thinking about this whole space. Oana was the perfect person for this episode. She painted the picture of how music and technology have always been intertwined throughout history and web 3.0 and the metaverse being the next iteration of this. Hearing Oana talk about this stuff was invaluable, I found it fascinating and I know you will too, so thank you Oana for coming on. Subscribe on the new Youtube channel to watch this conversation here ======================= This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm (previously Republic Realm) who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few. They’re also the creators of the Fantasy Islands metaverse NFT project, the ultra-luxury metaverse destination and community in The Sandbox and beyond. They also recently announced their upcoming immersive ASMR experience in the metaverse, called Soundlands, which you can be the first to sign up to before it launches in full by heading to asmrsoundlands.com You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW ======================= Warner Music Groups's links : Website : https://www.wmg.com/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/warnermusic Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/warnermusic/ The Sandbox x WMG announcement : https://www.wmg.com/news/sandbox-partners-warner-music-group-create-music-themed-world-metaverse-36116 Genies x WMG announcement : https://www.wmg.com/news/warner-music-group-and-genies-sign-partnership-bring-wmgs-roster-artists-life-avatars-35396 ======================= My links : Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks Email : [email protected] Consultancy : www.wagmi-agency.com ======================= Everyrealm's Links Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com Substack : realmroundup.substack.com Website https://www.everyrealm.com =======================