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Steve Boom
Born1968 (age 55–56)[1]
CitizenshipU.S., Belgium[2]
Education
Occupations

Steve Boom is Vice President of Audio (encompassing Amazon Music, Audible, and Wondery[4]), Twitch & Games at Amazon.[2] Before that, he was the Vice President of Amazon Music.

Early career

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Boom received a JD from Harvard Law School[5] in 1994.[3] After law school, Boom began his career as an attorney at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C.,[6] and then Venture Law Group in Silicon Valley, advising software and internet startups.[7]

He joined Yahoo Inc. in 1998[8] as director of business development for Yahoo Europe.[9] In October 2002, he became the company's senior vice president of business and enterprise services.[10] Boom worked at Yahoo for 10 years, departing in 2008[11] as senior vice president of the Connected Life division,[7] where he managed the company's mobile and broadband businesses.[12] Boom led the rollout of Yahoo's mobile advertising network[13] and Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0.[14] He also played a role in Yahoo's investment in speech recognition company Vlingo.[15]

In January 2009,[7] Boom became CEO of mig33, a mobile social networking service popular primarily outside the U.S.[16] He transitioned to the executive chairman role in March 2010.[17] Boom joined Loopt as its president in August 2010[18] and was also an adviser to video service Vuclip.[19]

Amazon

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Boom joined Amazon in 2012 to develop and launch the Amazon Music business.[4] He led the transition of the business from selling MP3 music downloads to providing music streaming,[20] including the introduction of Amazon Prime Music in 2014[21] and the rollout of the Amazon Music Unlimited streaming service in 2016.[22] In January 2020, Boom reported that Amazon Music had 55 million users.[23] As head of Amazon Music, he led the 2021[24] acquisitions of podcast network Wondery[25] and podcast hosting and advertising company Art19[26] as Amazon Music expanded into podcasts.[25] In 2022, Boom also led the expansion of the service to offer streaming of its entire catalog to Amazon Prime members[20] and the rollout of Amazon Music Live, a concert series airing on Amazon Prime Video and Twitch following Thursday Night Football.[27]

With the retirement of Senior Vice President Jeff Blackburn in December 2022,[28][29] Boom took on expanded leadership to include Audible, Twitch and Amazon Games, reporting to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.[30] Ryan Redington, general manager of Amazon Music, and Dan Clancy, CEO of Twitch, report to Boom.[2][31]

Additionally, Boom is the longest-running chairman of music aid organization MusiCares,[4] first joining the organization's board in 2017.[32] In this role, he helped create the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund[20] and guide distribution of $35 million in COVID-19 pandemic aid.[33][34]

Recognition

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  • Billboard named Boom to its Power 100 list in 2016,[35] 2017,[1] 2018,[36] 2019,[37] 2020,[38] 2022, 2023 and 2024. (Billboard did not publish a Power 100 list in 2021.) On 2022's[39] and 2023's Power 100 lists, Billboard ranked Boom number 11.[27] Boom ranked #4 in the streaming and radio category of 2024's list.[40]
  • Variety has included Boom on its Variety500 list in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 and on its Hitmakers list.[2]
  • The T.J. Martell Foundation for Cancer Research[41] gave Boom its Music Innovation Award in 2017.[42]
  • The UJA-Federation of New York named Boom Music Visionary of the Year in 2023.[33]

References

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  1. ^ a b Witt, Stephen (9 February 2017). "Billboard Power 100 Cover: Amazon's Jeff Bezos & Steve Boom on Starting a New 'Golden Age' for Music". Billboard. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "Steve Boom". Variety. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Fireside Chat with Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music, JD '94". Harvard Club of San Francisco. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Garcia, Thania (18 July 2023). "Amazon Music's Ryan Redington Promoted to General Manager". Variety. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  5. ^ Soper, Spencer (7 December 2022). "Amazon CEO, Putting Stamp on Company, Promotes Four Executives". Bloomberg. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  6. ^ Boom, Steve J. (1995). "The European Union after the Maastricht Decision: Will Germany be the "Virginia of Europe?"". The American Journal of Comparative Law. 43 (2): 177–226. doi:10.2307/840514. JSTOR 840514.
  7. ^ a b c "Former Yahoo executive named Mig33 CEO". San Francisco Business Times. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  8. ^ Arrington, Michael (27 August 2008). "More Yahoo Senior Exec Defections: Steve Boom and Todd Teresi". TechCrunch. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  9. ^ Sanchez, Jana (11 December 2000). "Yahoo to adapt for mobile phones". Computerworld. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Yahoo Executive Is Dismissed - WSJ". Wall Street Journal. 17 October 2002. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  11. ^ Shankland, Stephen (29 September 2008). "Yahoo revamps mobile group for profitability plan". CNET. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  12. ^ Nagri, Idris (1 October 2007). "Yahoo Expands Reach of OneSearch in Europe, Latin America". Search Engine Watch. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  13. ^ "Yahoo to Offer a Network for Web Ads on Cellphones". Gainesville Sun. 27 March 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  14. ^ Helft, Miguel (9 January 2007). "Yahoo Introduces Mobile Service Software". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  15. ^ "Yahoo Leads $20 Million Round for Vlingo". DealBook. 3 April 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  16. ^ Marshall, Matt (25 June 2009). "Mig33 is most downloaded mobile app — have you heard of it?". VentureBeat. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  17. ^ Takahashi, Dean (17 March 2010). "mig33's mobile chat service finds success in emerging markets". VentureBeat. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  18. ^ Ha, Anthony (30 August 2010). "Loopt hires mobile veteran to reclaim the location crown". VentureBeat. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  19. ^ Satariano, Adam (12 June 2014). "Amazon's Music Service Said to Hit Snags With Universal". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  20. ^ a b c Patel, Nilay (1 November 2022). "Why Amazon VP Steve Boom just made the entire music catalog free with Prime". The Verge. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  21. ^ Tu, Janet I. (12 June 2014). "Amazon launches streaming music for Prime members". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  22. ^ Sisario, Ben (12 October 2016). "Amazon Pairs Its Speaker With Streaming Music, at a Bargain Price". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  23. ^ "Amazon Music subscriber numbers close in on Apple". Financial Times. 22 January 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  24. ^ Spangler, Todd (1 April 2021). "Podcast Studio Wondery, Now Owned by Amazon, Plans to Double Staff This Year". Variety. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  25. ^ a b Shaw, Lucas (16 August 2021). "Amazon's Move Into Podcasts Was a Big Advertising Play All Along". Bloomberg. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  26. ^ "Why Podcasting? For Amazon, The Answer Seems To Be Advertising". Inside Radio. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  27. ^ a b DiGiacomo, Frank; Knopper, Steve (2 February 2023). "Billboard's 2023 Power 100: Executives List Revealed". Billboard. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  28. ^ "Amazon head of Prime Video, Twitch and gaming retires again - Glamsham". 2022-12-03. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  29. ^ Staff, Amazon (2022-12-02). "Longtime Amazon leader and SVP, Jeff Blackburn, to retire from Amazon". www.aboutamazon.com. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  30. ^ Goldberg, Lesley (2 December 2022). "Jeff Blackburn Retires as Head of Amazon's Global Entertainment Group". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  31. ^ Goldsmith, Annie (2023-06-16). "Twitch's New CEO Tries to Strike the Right Chords". The Information. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  32. ^ "Mick Management's Michael McDonald Named Chair of MusiCares Foundation, Amazon's Steve Boom Joins Board". Variety. 21 August 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  33. ^ a b Garcia, Thania; Aswad, Jem (3 March 2023). "Music Industry Moves: Nashville's Anzie Blue Reopens as Live Music Venue". Variety. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  34. ^ Ward, Andrew (23 February 2023). "MusiCares, The Amazing Organization Supporting the People Behind the Music". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  35. ^ "The Billboard Power 100 2016: Nos. 82-88 — Jason Owen, Steve Boom, Stephen Hill, Debra Lee, Jesus Lopez, Natalia Nastaskin, Neil Warnock, Jeremy Zimmer, Daniel Glass, Kein Ehrlich, Jack Sussman". Billboard. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  36. ^ "No. 18: Steve Boom - Power 100". Billboard. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  37. ^ "No: 13: Steve Boom & Ryan Redington - Power 100". Billboard. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  38. ^ "The 2020 Billboard Power List Revealed". Billboard. 24 January 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  39. ^ "The 2022 Billboard Power List Revealed". Billboard. 26 January 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  40. ^ Karp, Hannah (31 January 2024). "Streaming & Radio on Billboard's 2024 Power 100 List". Billboard. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  41. ^ Aswad, Jem (26 June 2019). "T.J. Martell's New York Gala to Honor CMA's Sarah Trahern, BMI's Mike O'Neill, Atlantic's Michael Kushner". Variety. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
  42. ^ "T.J. Martell Foundation to Honor Swidler, Stennett, Boom". HITS Daily Double. 15 September 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
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