CEO, DCIA
Arlington
WIRED magazine recently anointed BigChampagne the Nielsen television ratings of online music. BigChampagne pioneered the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) measurement starting with the popular Napster community, and is today an industry standard research tool. BigChampagne's customers and subscribers include MTV, major labels, major record labels, artists, managers and other music industry professionals. BigChampagne’s syndication partners include Premiere Radio Networks (a division of Clear Channel Entertainment), Entertainment Weekly and E! Entertainment Television.
Garland is recognized as one of the industry's leading authorities on the global file sharing phenomenon. He is a regular contributor to the P2P knowledge base from Harvard University to the Cato Institute and Federal Trade Commission workshops. He contributed most recently to the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) flagship publication Information Technology Outlook 2004. His report last year to the California State Senate was the basis of the Associated Press story "Analyst: Internet file-sharing bigger than record business." Garland’s commentary appears in the media almost daily, and his remarks can be found regularly in the pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Garland has provided information and analysis about online music to publications including Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek and Fortune. He is featured on National Public Radio as a digital music pundit, and is a regular guest on Los Angeles talk radio KLSX in that capacity. Most recently, he has been a repeat guest lecturer at UCLA and USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, speaking on the collision of entertainment and Internet.
Before co-founding BigChampagne in 1999, Garland was an associate with global management consulting firm Towers Perrin in the Communication and Measurement practice where, according to WIRED, "he spent much of his twenties dashing through airports and hotel restaurants telling people how to run their businesses."
1:30pm -2:30pm, Thursday, Alberta
The Evolution of Peer-to-Peer & Music: From Enemy to Business Partner (DMS)
