Apple SVP Eddy Cue to participate in Q&A session at Pollstar Live! conference in February

Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue will be making the rounds early next year when he takes part in a live Q&A session at Pollstar Live! 2018, an annual conference serving concert industry professionals.

In an announcement on Thursday, Variety said Cue will be joined onstage by the publication's Executive Music Editor Shirley Halperin.

Cue and Halperin will kick off Pollstar Live! programming on Dec. 7, though the event is scheduled to run from Feb. 6 through Feb. 8 at the Intercontinental Downtown LA.

"Eddy Cue and his team at Apple have changed the way we listen to music, played a transformative role in artist discovery, and ignited the passion of music fans," said Ray Waddell, president, Media & Conferences, for Oak View Group, which is producing Pollstar Live! "We are thrilled to have him address the attendees at Pollstar Live! and can't wait to hear what he has to say."

Other guests slated to speak at the conference include Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino, CEO of Atom Factory Troy Carter, Coolio, Mark Cuban, CEO of Pandora Roger Lynch, SiriusXM CEO James E. Meyer, WME head of music Marc Geiger and more.

Cue is one of Apple's more public figures, commonly seen giving interviews and statements to press outlets. As the head of Apple's growing content offerings, Cue manages a number of important initiatives including the iTunes Store and Apple Music. Apple Pay, Maps, Search Ads, iCloud and first-party productivity and creativity apps fall under Cue's purview.

Building out Apple Music is a major initiative for the company. Operations are picking up steam as Cue and his reports work to create a slate of original shows for the streaming service. After a lukewarm response to "Planet of the Apps" and "Carpool Karaoke," Apple is reportedly moving forward with plans to expand programming to include scripted episodic content.

To help accelerate the process, the company has created a Worldwide Video arm, which is run by industry veterans Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht. The unit has poached a number of players from the media world, the most recent being former Hulu exec Philip Matthys and Jennifer Wang Grazier of Legendary Entertainment.

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13 Comments

SpamSandwich 32917 comments · 19 Years

About 6 years ago

Eddy's got a lot of 'splainin' to do!

yojimbo007 1165 comments · 12 Years

chain is as strong as its weakest link.......

randominternetperson 3095 comments · 8 Years

SpamSandwich said:

Eddy's got a lot of 'splainin' to do!

What are you referring to?

patchythepirate 1254 comments · 12 Years

randominternetperson said:

SpamSandwich said:

Eddy's got a lot of 'splainin' to do!

What are you referring to?

I don't enjoy spreading negativity about others (unless they're of poor character, not the case here), but the problem areas are hard to ignore:

-Maps bumbled, responsibilities taken over by other execs
-Siri's spearheading of the voice-first revolution and its multi year head start completely squandered, siri is improving recently but still annoying, and now taken over by Federighi
-app store bumbled, taken over by Schiller
-Apple Music 1) not nearly as popular as it should be (as the default music service on the iPhone); 2) has a (largely well deserved) reputation for only being good at pop and hip hop; 3) has an extremely myopic lack of social features in Apple's most social app; and 4) has TERRIBLE support for sub-generas
-Apple's social/media/culture efforts have pretty much been failures over the past several years (TV bundle?, planet of the apps, carpool karaoke, apple news just regurgitating biased, silo'd news (seems to maybe be getting better though)
-apple TV keeps dropping my airplay connection, so frustrating (more of a personal, anecdotal gripe, not sure how big of an issue this is)
-pretty slow homekit support roll out (I have a ton of homekit devices)
-pretty slow merchant adoption of apple pay (I seek out and try to use this as much as possible)

Positives:
-Buying Beats was a great call, best thing Apple could do to expand their cultural influence and clout, although Apple Music's focus on Apple-directed content over facilitating users' ability to find what they like seems pretty misguided
-free upgrades to 4k movies is cool

anantksundaram 20390 comments · 18 Years

patchythepirate said:

randominternetperson said:

SpamSandwich said:

Eddy's got a lot of 'splainin' to do!

What are you referring to?

I don't enjoy spreading negativity about others (unless they're of poor character, not the case here), but the problem areas are hard to ignore:

-Maps bumbled, responsibilities taken over by other execs
-Siri's spearheading of the voice-first revolution and its multi year head start completely squandered, siri is improving recently but still annoying, and now taken over by Federighi
-app store bumbled, taken over by Schiller
-Apple Music 1) not nearly as popular as it should be (as the default music service on the iPhone); 2) has a (largely well deserved) reputation for only being good at pop and hip hop; 3) has an extremely myopic lack of social features in Apple's most social app; and 4) has TERRIBLE support for sub-generas
-Apple's social/media/culture efforts have pretty much been failures over the past several years (TV bundle?, planet of the apps, carpool karaoke, apple news just regurgitating biased, silo'd news (seems to maybe be getting better though)
-apple TV keeps dropping my airplay connection, so frustrating (more of a personal, anecdotal gripe, not sure how big of an issue this is)
-pretty slow homekit support roll out (I have a ton of homekit devices)
-pretty slow merchant adoption of apple pay (I seek out and try to use this as much as possible)

Positives:
-Buying Beats was a great call, best thing Apple could do to expand their cultural influence and clout, although Apple Music's focus on Apple-directed content over facilitating users' ability to find what they like seems pretty misguided
-free upgrades to 4k movies is cool

One of the finest posts on AI in a while.

Cue’s way past his sell-by date.