A content business within a content business - Mercury Studios

The Client:  Universal Music launched its new content label Mercury Studios, bringing in a new CEO. The Studio was set up to distribute the existing catalogue of performance content, acquire new catalogues, and to develop and produce original television, film, audio, and digital and live performance content for global audiences.

The Challenge: Having initially appointed another search company without success, THRIVE  was engaged by the CEO to fulfil a raft of critical hires across all divisions, including Live Streaming Creative Director, SVP Content Acquisition, Production Executive, two unscripted development leads, and a Content Sales Director. We were also charged with helping the SVP Digital to build his team from scratch.

Our Approach: As well as the required skills and experience, each candidate would need a genuine knowledge of the music industry, and an entrepreneurial start-up mentality. We launched a proactive campaign across our networks and took a deep dive into each market. We researched each role to uncover the unobvious candidates, to fulfil the requirement of diverse experience and hybrid skill set, with the necessary energy to grow a business from scratch. With this client, we were able to demonstrate our dexterity and far reaching networks. Mercury loved the way we worked and made THRIVE their sole talent search partner.

The Result: We hired two diverse candidates for the SVP and Live Streaming Creative Director roles, and successfully filled all of the other roles the client asked us to manage. The client was so delighted with the result, Thrive was invited to become the Studio’s sole external search partner and we have built a successful ongoing partnership.

Thrive are genuinely world-class at finding talented people with both the skills and experience needed, but crucially the cultural fit that enables your business to go from strength to strength. They are a pleasure to work with, care deeply they deliver for you and leave no stone unturned when searching for the perfect new person for your team.