Tony Zeoli is a digital media consultant providing forward-thinking thought leadership in the development of digital media applications for corporations and start-ups. For the past 15+ years, Zeoli has created digital products for Sony/BMG, Associated Press, Entertainment Media Works, Cablevision Systems Corp., Fuse, Smith Street Records, Twilo, Vinylmania and Melibee Global.
From 2005 to 2007, Tony was Vice President of Music Services at Entertainment Media Works where he orchestrated the creation of the company’s music division and led development of the organization’s online music video platform for its consumer portal StarStyle.com™. During his tenure at EWW, Tony negotiated partnership agreements with major and independent recording labels and artists, and developed the overall music content strategy for StarStyle, including entertainment news features, online music video programming, blogging and podcasting. He also closed agreements with Universal Music Group, MTV and Univision.
Previously, Zeoli consulted to the Associated Press, overseeing the development of the AP’s blog platform for its youth culture news portal, ASAP and its online video news service, which was distributed to hundreds of news web sites worldwide.
In his prior role as senior producer at New York’s MetroTV, he spearheaded the development of the network’s companion website for its popular daily music television show, “The Daily Beat.” Zeoli worked on the country’s first iTV music video VOD channel for Metro, which was re-branded and launched as Fuse On Demand for the Fuse music television networks. He also received a Communicator Award, the cable industry’s highest honor, for his work as senior producer of the New York Music Rundown, the country’s first VOD music news program available through Cablevision’s Metro Plus VOD channel.
Zeoli also launched Netmix.com, the first site to air mix-sets from top electronic/dance DJs. He continues to program and produce for Netmix Radio, today a 24-hour dance music radio station licensed for Internet broadcast. The site also hosts his popular daily blog. Himself a prestigious club DJ and former Billboard Dance Chart reporter, Zeoli helped to spur the online DJ culture and was one of the first to convince companies like Sony Music and Arista Records to market their music and promote dance artists online.
For more than a decade, Zeoli has been outspoken on a range of digital music and Internet-related issues and has participated in panels at the Billboard Dance Music Summit and Amsterdam Dance Event, NYU’s MBA Music & Entertainment Forum, iHollywood Forum’s Music 2.0 and was asked to lead and moderate the interactive music panel for 5 consecutive years at the world’s largest dance music conference, the Winter Music Conference.
Zeoli continues to influence global youth culture and music through his DJ career. Making the choice to go all digital, Zeoli is also a full-fledged laptop DJ mixing it up a club near you.