Content & Entertainment
Music Streaming · Brazil & LATAM · 2020 — 2023

Amazon
Music.

A market where 9 in 10 plays are local — and a platform that barely reflected it. Over almost four years I went from running the first campaigns to architecting the Content area: Originals, Editorial, Live Streaming — one team, one budget, one flywheel.

Content Strategy Editorial Originals Livestream Brazil · LATAM
Rio de Janeiro · Brazil ↓ Scroll
— Section 01 · Headline numbers
47M+
Original plays across the catalog.
Amazon Music Brasil · 2020 — 2023
#2
Brazil's global rank for First Streams.
Amazon Music WW · 2022
120
Amazon Music Originals shipped in Brazil.
Amazon Music Brasil · 2020 — 2023
4
Franchise brands built — Luau · Balada Sertaneja · Sucessos Gospel · Braba.
Amazon Music Brasil · 2022 — 2023
186%
Recoupment achieved on the Amazon Original programme.
Internal P&L · 2023
+150bps
YoY ROI recoupment improvement under Editorial Calendar v3.
Internal P&L · 2022 — 2023
Section 02 — The Starting Point · May 2020

Not a launch.
A starting
line.

When I joined Amazon Music Brazil in May 2020, the platform had been live for eight months. There was no Content area. There was no playbook. There was no team. 1.4M customers — most of them inherited from Prime and Alexa — were tuning into a catalog that barely reflected where they actually were.

Brazil is one of the most local-skewed music markets in the world: 90 — 92% of the Top 100 is domestic. Inside Amazon Music, the gap between Brazilian culture and platform inventory was a chasm — Rap, for instance, was 14.6% of national listening but just 1.86% of plays inside the platform. The strategic bet wasn't a smarter algorithm. It was building what the platform didn't have yet: a Content area that could produce — not just host — the music Brazilians actually wanted to hear.

"Brazil isn't a market you can serve with a global catalog. It's one you have to produce inside."
Internal strategy framing · Q3 2020
— Section 03 · Three phases, one operator
Phase 03 / 03 — The infrastructure

Founded the Content area. Centralised Originals, Editorial, and Live Streaming under one team.

Influenced local, LATAM, and global stakeholders to establish Amazon Music Brazil's first unified Content area — pulling Original production, Editorial, and Live Streaming under a single team and budget. Authored the 3-Year Plan (3YP 2024 — 2026): a content flywheel and revenue model spanning sponsorship, brand partnerships, and new commercial formats.

Evolved the Editorial Music Calendar to v3.0 — concentrating ~80% of the budget into 3 Go Big franchise moments per year (Luau, Braba, Balada Sertaneja) and improving ROI recoupment by 150bps YoY. Designed the Content Project Green Lighting mechanism. Opened the GRU10 Music Studio — Brazil's first in-person Amazon Music content hub.

Phase 02 / 03 — The engine

Built the editorial engine. The calendar Brazil shipped became a global reference.

Defined and executed multi-channel content strategy, owning the Amazon Original programme and all editorial video production end-to-end. Shipped 14 content projects in 2022 (+17% vs. plan). Originated the Editorial Music Calendar — adopted as a reference model by other Amazon territories worldwide.

Developed and implemented the ROI recoupment model for the AO programme. Oversaw a combined budget of BRL 5.3M. Drove Balada Sertaneja to #1 territory worldwide on YouTube — the first Amazon Music franchise from BR to lead the global table.

Phase 01 / 03 — Zero to one

Launched from zero. First campaigns, first Originals, first hours on Twitch.

Built Amazon Music Brazil's Artist Marketing and Social Media functions from the ground up — executing the platform's first-ever local campaigns and original content productions. Produced the first 15 Amazon Music Originals in Brazil (10 with video). Developed the first Amazon Music Original podcast.

Grew the Twitch channel from 3,087 to 11,300 followers (+266% YoY), producing 17K+ hours of live content. Drove social media organic reach from 64M (2020) to 165M average (Q1 — Q3 2021).

— Section 04 · The thesis · content as flywheel

Content stopped being a series of one-offs. It became the engine.

How a Content area built from scratch turned franchises, a calendar, and a recoupment model into a business engine.

— Foundation credibilityBy October 2020 — eight months in — programming already drove 35% of AMU plays and 49% of AMP. Two Brazil-curated playlists hit the worldwide Top 20: #7 Balada Sertaneja, #17 Explosão Funk. Editorial credibility was the foundation; the franchises were the system built to scale it.

— The flywheel conceptContent shouldn't be a procession of one-offs. Each franchise built a fandom, generated audio · video · livestream · podcast, and compounded across seasons. One shoot, many cuts. 80% of the budget concentrated into three Go Big windows — Luau Q1, Balada Q2, Braba Q3.

— The content engine · in motionAmazon Music BR · 2022
— What the industry said
"Its organization stands out — especially compared to other DSPs, where we have great difficulty fulfilling project and campaign commitments."
Maria Clara GuimarãesDirector of Digital Business Strategy · Sony Music Brazil
186%
AO recoupment 2023 — from 172% (+150bps YoY)
141.5%
BR Franchise ROI 2022 — highest in LATAM
+21.6%
Avg artist fan growth (+535bps vs WW)
Twitch 3K→64K · 2019—2023
01
Foundation
Editorial credibility before franchises — 2 BR playlists in the WW Top 20.
02
The flywheel
One shoot, many cuts. 80% of budget into 3 Go Big windows.
03
Financial defense
First Streams = acquisition, YoY growth = retention. 186% recoupment.
04
Frameworks travelled
Calendar + Green Lighting + 3YP adopted beyond Brazil.

Editorial Music Calendar

The first thing I built at Amazon Music — before any Original, before any franchise — was the annual operating mechanism. It iterated for three years. Each version absorbed a lesson from the year before. The franchise brands the industry sees today are the third version's output; the calendar itself is the system.

v1.02021 · Year one
The 2021 calendar · genre × month9 genres · 4 formats
JFMAMJJASONDSertanejoFunkForróPagodeGospelRapPopRockMPB
AudioVideoLivePodcast

Genre slots.
Coverage by calendar.

Annual calendar broken into monthly genre slots — Sertanejo, Funk, Forró, Pagode, Gospel, Rap, Pop, Rock, MPB. Multi-format inside each slot: Audio · Video · Livestreaming · Podcasts. Designed to close specific gaps (e.g. Rap was 14.6% of the Brazilian market but only 1.86% inside AM).

6
projects · 4 AO Singles · 220K plays · 11.6K First Streams
v2.02022 · Year two
7 teams · one genre moment2022 · 360° integration
GENRE MOMENTEDITORIALAMKLABEL REL.PROGRAMMINGSOCIALORIGINALSLIVESTREAM

Proactive over reactive.
360° industry integration.

Calendar shifted from internal coverage map to industry-facing operating tool. Labels and artists could plan against it a year out — instead of pitching us reactively. Integrated seven teams (editorial, AMK, label relations, programming, social, originals, livestream) around each genre moment. Less waiting, more building.

14
projects · 53 AO Singles · 27M plays · Brazil #2 WW First Streams
v3.02023 · Year three

Go Big concentration.
80% of budget, 3 franchises.

Reduced campaign count −11% vs 2022, but concentrated investment into three 3-month franchise windows (Luau Q1 · Balada Q2 · Braba Q3) plus an evergreen backbone (Gospel, Kids, MPB). Tier-1 artist focus. "Less is more" pivot: −60% live volume, only −10% reach.

+150bps
recoupment improvement · 172% → 186% · 14.5M Luau plays · #2 AO WW
— Other mechanisms built in the same window
Content Project Green Lighting
Decision framework for which projects entered the calendar — strategic fit, audience opportunity, partner alignment.
GRU10 Music Studio
First in-person Amazon Music content hub in Brazil. Brought production agency in-house. Listening sessions for label artists.
Content Flywheel
Centralised production budget feeding multiple distribution channels — Originals → Editorial videos → Livestream → Social — one shoot, many cuts.
3-Year Plan 2024 — 2026
Authored the strategic plan that scoped the Content area's next chapter: 1P franchise property, sponsorship monetisation, brand-partner revenue model.
— Section 06 · What the growth produced

Brazil became a top-tier content territory — worldwide.

#2in the world for First Streams
#3for total content projects
#4for total plays

Inside Amazon Music's global ranking, Brazil moved from a launch-year afterthought to a top-tier content territory — beating markets with far longer presence and far larger budgets. The mechanism that delivered it: the Editorial Music Calendar 2.0, designed to give labels a yearly view they could plan against.

Amazon Music Originals produced in Brazil — Péricles · Guilherme & Benuto · Gilberto Gil
— The growth arc · 2021 → 2022

2021 was the experiment. 2022 was the proof.

AO First Streams26,586from 189 in 2021+13,967%
AO Total Plays27Mfrom 220K in 2021+12,153%
YouTube Plays9M+from 11.6K in 2021+77,711%
AO Singles produced53from 6 in 2021+783%
Twitch Unique Viewers4.46Mfrom 740K in 2021+502%
Braba
brand lift
The 2023 BRABA × NBA campaign on YouTube drove +142bps recall lift vs control (+210bps among 18–24) at BR$0.64 Cost Per Lift User — best-in-class on the platform — plus +165bps in brand consideration.
— Section 07 · Switch between franchises, same depth

Four franchises. Four category bets. Each its own brand, calendar slot, and growth thesis.

— The headline franchise

Brazil's summer, built as a 360° entertainment property.

Launched in 2022 with 4 artists in a 1-month window, Luau Amazon Music expanded in 2023 to 20 singles across a 3-month franchise window. Multi-genre by design — Sertanejo, Pagode, Pop, Urban — recorded on Niterói beaches with a translucent set design, mountain backdrop, and a "big bang" EP launch on June 1.

Artists across the two editions: Lexa, Mari Fernandez, Ferrugem, Vitor Kley, Péricles, Priscilla and more. Built as a real entertainment franchise — playlist + audio Originals + music videos + livestream launch + social stunt + full massive artist marketing campaign during summer time with TV, OOH, digital paid media, PR and more.

"Establish consistent investments in our own entertainment franchise brands every quarter along the year — Q1 Summer (Luau), Q2 Sertanejo (Balada), Q3 Urban (Braba). Turning sub-brands into real entertainment franchises."

— Internal positioning · Luau 2023 budget approval

14.5M
Total plays · 20 singles · until Q3 2023
#2
Most-listened Amazon Original worldwide
— The concept

A franchise built around what Sertanejo artists actually do on stage.

Pot-pourri — mixing several songs into one performance — is a staple of Sertanejo live shows. The insight behind Balada Sertaneja 2023 was simple: take the live tradition and turn it into exclusive original content. Top artists reinterpreting hits from pop, rock, axé, and pagode in their own Sertanejo style.

Dudu Borges — one of Brazil's most decorated music producers — was commissioned for the project. Result: 4 Amazon Music Originals with Guilherme & Benuto, Hugo & Guilherme, Israel & Rodolffo, and Lauana Prado — each a distinct musical universe, exclusive to the platform.

"Sertanejo is known for mixing musical styles. We thought: why not recreate hits from other genres in a Sertanejo style? Nobody better than Dudu Borges to help us on this mission."

Bruno Vieira — Head of Amazon Music Brazil

4
Amazon Music Originals released
LATAM
First LATAM-scale campaign for the franchise
Balada Sertaneja — Israel & Rodolffo · Amazon Music Original cover
01 / 04
Amazon Original · Sertanejo
Israel & Rodolffo

Cilada · Cheia de Manias · É Tarde Demais

Balada Sertaneja — Lauana Prado · Amazon Music Original cover
02 / 04
Amazon Original · Sertanejo
Lauana Prado

Resposta · Refrão de Bolero · Aonde Quer Que Eu Vá

Balada Sertaneja — Guilherme & Benuto · Amazon Music Original cover
03 / 04
Amazon Original · Sertanejo
Guilherme & Benuto

Fico Assim Sem Você · O Amor Não Deixa · A Lenda

Balada Sertaneja — Hugo & Guilherme · Amazon Music Original cover
04 / 04
Amazon Original · Sertanejo
Hugo & Guilherme

Não Precisa Mudar · Sutilmente · Como Eu Quero

— The franchise

Raising the bar for what religious content can sound like on a DSP.

Brazil's 65M+ Christian audience is one of the fastest-growing music segments on streaming — and one of the most under-served by global DSPs. Sucessos Gospel Brasil was built to change that: full production-grade Originals from artists already at the centre of the genre — Aline Barros, Bruna Karla, Fernanda Brum, Anderson Freire, Nívea Soares, Samuel Messias — with a 9-to-10 voice choir, Dolby Atmos recording, and cinematic capture by Miolo Filmes.

Director Guta Tolhuizen. Music direction Johnny Essi. Cinematography Fernando Duarte. Two editions (2022 + 2023) delivered 9 Original tracks per artist plus music videos, behind-the-scenes episodes, and broadcast-grade livestream launches across Amazon Music + Twitch.

"We raised the production bar for religious content — positioning Amazon Music as a key partner for Brazil's 65M+ Christian listeners."

— Internal positioning · 3YP 2024 — 2026

9
Amazon Originals across 2 editions
9.1M
Total plays · Q4 2023 cumulative
Sucessos Gospel — Aline Barros · Amazon Music Original cover
01 / 05
Amazon Original · Gospel
Aline Barros

Sucessos Gospel · ao vivo

Sucessos Gospel — Anderson Freire feat. Samuel Messias · Amazon Music Original cover
02 / 05
Amazon Original · Gospel
Anderson Freire feat. Samuel Messias

Sucessos Gospel

Sucessos Gospel — Fernanda Brum · Amazon Music Original cover
03 / 05
Amazon Original · Gospel
Fernanda Brum

Sucessos Gospel

Sucessos Gospel — Nívea Soares · Amazon Music Original cover
04 / 05
Amazon Original · Gospel
Nívea Soares

Sucessos Gospel

Sucessos Gospel — Bruna Karla · Amazon Music Original cover
05 / 05
Amazon Original · Gospel
Bruna Karla

Sucessos Gospel

— The Q3 bet

Closing the Urban gap. Brazil's first AM urban-music franchise brand.

Brazilian Urban music (Funk, Trap, Rap) sits in the Top 2 across DSPs but only Top 6 inside Amazon Music — the largest single category gap on the platform. Braba was launched to close it: a multi-experience brand for the Young Adult audience.

Multi-format from day one — flagship playlist, Braba Party IRL activations, podcast sponsorships, livestreams, Mini Docs, original singles. The first AM franchise built specifically around an audience (Young Adults) rather than a genre slot.

"Q3 Urban (Braba) closes the year's franchise rhythm — Q1 Luau, Q2 Balada, Q3 Braba. Three windows that own a quarter each."

— Internal positioning · 3YP 2024 — 2026

1st
AM urban-music franchise brand in Brazil
Top 2 → Top 6
Genre gap to close (DSPs vs AM share)
Braba — Cifrão by Papatinho, L7NNON & Kawe · Amazon Music Original cover
01 / 03
Amazon Original · Funk · Trap
Cifrão

Papatinho, L7NNON & Kawe

Braba — Cupido by MC Ryan SP, MC Don Juan & Mc IG · Amazon Music Original cover
02 / 03
Amazon Original · Funk
Cupido

MC Ryan SP, MC Don Juan & Mc IG

Braba — Só Você (Piseiro Funk) by DENNIS feat. Zé Vaqueiro · Amazon Music Original cover
03 / 03
Amazon Original · Funk · Piseiro
Só Você (Piseiro Funk)

DENNIS feat. Zé Vaqueiro

— Section 08 · Video production 14 documentaries · 2020 — 2023
▶ Now playing · Mini Doc · Oct 2021 · 10 artists

Frescor MPB · O Que Está Acontecendo?

The new MPB generation in one room: Anavitória, Duda Beat, Luedji Luna, Vitor Kley, Liniker, Cícero, Rubel, Tim Bernardes, Tó Brandileone, Mahmundi.

Why does an audio player produce video?

The audio file was the product. The conversation was the strategy. To accelerate Amazon Music’s relevance in Brazil’s music industry — and reach the listeners not yet subscribed — I led a parallel video production line of 14 documentaries across genres, distributed inside the app and free on YouTube.

Two pillars guided the format mix: elevate AM’s editorial credibility with the industry, and grow brand awareness with non-subscribers. Industry pull followed: Papatinho saw the first BRABA trilogy docs and asked Amazon Music for his own — we released it six months later.

14
documentaries · 2020 — 2023
#2
language on AM Global YouTube
3
editorial lines

Live audio & video — weekly, festival, exclusive.

When Amazon Music partnered with Twitch globally in Sep 2020 — the first DSP ever to integrate live streaming with on-demand catalog — I built the Brazilian execution from the ground up: 5 programming verticals across 4 years, all anchored on the AM Brasil Twitch channel.

10M+
unique viewers · 2020–2023
64K
Twitch followers built
+502%
YoY growth in 2021
Channel trailer · 2020–2023
01Weekly Shows
Amazon Music News Gente Aberta Ecoando

The recurring drumbeat.

Three recurring weekly Twitch programsAmazon Music News (host Didi Effe), Gente Aberta (hosts Fabiane Pereira + Pedro Antunes) and Ecoando weekly (hosts Alex Albino + Marcus Preto).

02City Sessions
Marina Sena — City Sessions São Paulo

Pocket shows + exclusive Originals.

One launch session that landed a global initiative in Brasil — Marina Sena at AM’s newly inaugurated São Paulo studio (Oct 2023). Live + interview + AM Original exclusive. Brasil = 2nd country globally to launch after the US (Måneskin, Tim McGraw, Benson Boone, Cavetown).

03Festival Broadcasts
Festival Queremos broadcast

Existing festivals + AM’s own.

6 festival broadcasts spanning 30+ artists. Amazon Music apresenta Palco Coala (w/ AltaFonte) and Palco Queremos (2021), then full Queremos Festival broadcasts in 2022 (incl. Gilberto Gil + Kamasi Washington) and 2023 — plus 2× Ecoando Festival, AM’s own platform for emerging artists. Tracks recorded and released as Amazon Originals.

04Brand Entertainment
Amazon Music Gol — FIFA tournament

Music × gaming × sports.

4 brand IPs — audacious crossovers, not licensed content. Amazon Music Gol (2 seasons of FIFA tournament between Brazilian artists, narrated by Renata Silveira — first BR woman to narrate a World Cup) + Festa Braba (hybrid in-person + livestream arm of the Braba franchise).

— Section 10 · The podcast Brazil launch · Nov 2020

Owning a vertical the company hadn’t staffed.

When Amazon Music switched on podcasts in Brazil — November 2020, three months after the US, UK and Germany — there was no internal team to run the vertical. I took ownership end to end: negotiating directly with Brazil’s biggest media groups, independent producers and individual creators to bring their feeds onto the platform for launch.

The launch went live across Brazil and Mexico at once — one of Amazon Music’s first international podcast markets — free for every subscriber, in a race Spotify already led. I structured the deals around a distribution-first model with no upfront licensing — “we deliver the audience, you monetize it” — seeding the catalogue with the country’s biggest shows (O Assunto, Flow, Mamilos, Praia dos Ossos, Foro de Teresina) while we produced our own.

I’d joined Amazon in May 2020 — concrete impact in just seven months, built on the podcast & live-radio portfolio I’d already led at Deezer (Cid Moreira, Essênciais, Céu da Semana). See the Deezer chapter →
— Top shows seeded at launch
O Assunto — G1
O Assunto
Flow Podcast
Flow
Mamilos — B9
Mamilos
Praia dos Ossos — Rádio Novelo
Praia dos Ossos
Foro de Teresina — piauí
Foro de Teresina
98%
of Brazil’s top 500 podcasts covered at launch
7
major media groups secured
2
original podcast franchises produced
0
dedicated headcount at the start
— Catalogue partners secured Globo Folha Estadão CNN Brasil Cultura UOL Jovem Pan + independent producers & creators
— Original production

Two originals I produced — one a daily, one a franchise.

A Música do Dia de Nelson Motta — podcast cover
Original podcast

A Música do Dia de Nelson Motta

The dean of Brazilian music journalism, on demand — and the first Brazilian Amazon Original podcast, the title that opened the platform’s podcast vertical. A daily run of 101 short episodes, each built around one song from his book “101 Canções Que Tocaram o Brasil.”

Monday to Friday, first thing in the morning, a three-to-five-minute pick from his personal selection — unpacking the cultural detail, the political moment of the era, production trivia and the musicians behind it. Every episode carries a companion playlist of the song’s different recordings, and an official playlist gathers every track from his first podcast.

Open the podcast Official playlist
Rediscover — podcast cover
Original franchise

Rediscover — one idea, four formats.

Rediscover wasn’t just a podcast. I designed it as a content franchise — a single editorial idea spinning audio, music, video and social under one umbrella, each format driving consumption back to the artist’s catalogue.

— The franchise
Rediscover

The podcast itself — a monthly series across two seasons (2021–2022), each episode celebrating a legendary Brazilian artist with testimonials from those they influenced.

Hosted by Gabriel Leone — 16 episodes from Fundo de Quintal, Aline Barros, Dennis, Bruno & Marrone, Charlie Brown Jr., Sabotage, Lulu Santos, Milton Nascimento, Chitãozinho & Xororó, Cassía Eller, Dominguinhos, Planet Hemp, Tribalistas, Caetano Veloso to Elza Soares.

Rediscover — Aline Barros
Aline Barros
Rediscover — Dennis
Dennis
Rediscover — Chitãozinho & Xororó
Chitãozinho & Xororó
Rediscover — Planet Hemp
Planet Hemp
Rediscover — Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Rediscover — Elza Soares
Elza Soares

The first Amazon Music Original EP in Brazil (Oct 2021) — four artists reimagining Milton Nascimento classics, each with its own music video.

A music video for each reimagining — the official Rediscover Milton Nascimento playlist.

To complement the audio, I commissioned an animated campaign for social — motion pieces giving each episode a visual layer. Inspired by the Rediscover style guide, a custom library of hand-drawn animated shapes and patterns was built for the visual narratives.

In total, 50 animated pieces — the final 9 episodes drew 1.8M+ views on social.

Motion by Mia Zedo
Catalogue lift — the consequence of the four formats. Every piece drives listeners back to the artist’s catalogue: a consumption flywheel.
— Section 11 · On Alexa Artist Marketing & Social × Amazon Original

The device that listened — so I gave it Brazilian voices.

Alexa’s edge in Brazil was voice — and the consumption data told a clear story: kids content and artist voices drove the device. Galinha Pintadinha alone sat in the top 10 most-requested artists on Alexa, with four songs among its 30 most-played tracks.

I read that signal and built on both sides — Artist Marketing that put Brazilian voices inside the assistant, and exclusive kids Originals engineered for how families actually use it. The result: content with hundreds of millions of plays, amplifying brand awareness for both Amazon Music and Alexa.

210M+
combined views · Galinha · Bita · Safadão
Top 10
most-requested artists on Alexa
4 of 30
Galinha in Alexa’s most-played
The bridge: consumption data — kids content & artist voices were the device’s biggest pulls.
— Pillar 1 · Artist Marketing & Social

Brazilian voices in the assistant.

My first Amazon role. Anitta took over “Alexa, bom dia” to drop Me Gusta; Luan Santana, Luísa Sonza, Pabllo Vittar answered fans by command; Marília Mendonça became one of the most-requested. Native to the device, the artists surprised customers and promoted their music — and we even shipped a song literally named Alexa with Wesley Safadão.

— Pillar 2 · Amazon Original · Content

Kids Originals, two years running.

The signal was unambiguous, so for two years I commissioned exclusive kids Originals: Galinha Pintadinha’s “Galinha do Vizinho” (2022) and Mundo Bita’s “Palco de Brinquedos” ft. Palavra Cantada (2023). Built for the families who drive Alexa — and among the platform’s biggest plays. The Galinha video alone passed 192M views.

A 12-month bet on emerging artists.

Ecoando — Breakthrough worldwide, which I localized for Brazil — is Amazon Music’s artist-development program: a horizontal commitment that backs an artist across every vertical for a full year. I built the content engine behind it — and the clips became some of the year’s biggest, 453M+ combined views.

453M+
combined views · music videos
clips over 100M views
12mo
full-platform support per artist

How an artist is backed. The Carol Biazin example:

horizontal · 12 months
Month 1 Month 12
Carol Biazin · programmingCarol Biazin · programmingCarol Biazin · programmingCarol Biazin · programming
Programming
Editorial playlists — Ecoando Brasil — and prime visibility across app programming.
Carol Biazin — Amazon Original
Original audio
Exclusive Amazon Originals, available only in the app — new recordings and versions.
Music videos
— flagship
Produced clips — the program’s breakout output. 453M+ views.
live
Live
The Ecoando Festival, livestreamed on the app + Twitch (2021 & 2022). → see Livestream.
Social & marketing
Global campaigns and social, opening the artist to a new public.

I marketed the franchises — not the artists.

I led Amazon Music Brazil’s first artist-marketing campaigns. The strategic bet: instead of promoting one artist’s release or catalogue, insert artists into the brand of each flagship playlist — the genres our customers listened to most.

One campaign could then lift many artists at once, build awareness for both Amazon Music and the franchise, and scale across the catalogue. Four campaigns, four flagship franchises.

4
flagship campaigns
1st
artist-marketing playbook · AM Brasil
20+
tier-1 artists activated
01Pop Mix

ELLE × Amazon Music

Sep 2021
OOH · RJ & SP
OOH · LA

Amazon Music’s first-ever partnership with ELLE Brasil — a 360° fashion-meets-music campaign for pop, September 2021’s genre of the month. Three ELLE View digital covers, a fashion film, OOH in São Paulo & Rio, online media and genre playlists — all branding the Pop Brasil flagship (a top-10 AM playlist). Shot & art-directed by ELLE on a serial-reproduction concept: pop lookalikes and covers, à la Warhol.

Pabllo VittarLuísa SonzaGlória GrooveLulu Santos
[Re]Discover — Lulu Santos · Amazon Original podcast

Lulu Santos — pop royalty — wrote the editorial and anchored a [Re]Discover podcast episode: the same content flywheel.

02Funk

Explosão Funk

2021

The funk franchise activation — branding the genre’s flagship playlist with its biggest names, OOH across Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

LudmillaPedro SampaioDennisLexaMC Zaac
Ludmilla
Pedro Sampaio
Dennis
Lexa
MC Zaac
OOH São Paulo / Rio OOH São Paulo / Rio OOH São Paulo / Rio
OOH · SP & Rio
Dennis — Só Você (Piseiro Funk) · Amazon Music Original

Dennis — one of funk’s biggest names — featured in the campaign and recorded an Amazon Music Original: the same content flywheel.

03MPB

Nação MPB & Frescor MPB

2021
Frescor MPB — mini-docPoster · Mini Doc Frescor MPB
OOH · NY
Social Cuts · Mini Doc Frescor MPB
OOH · RJ & SP

Two MPB flagships activated — and the clearest example of the content flywheel. Frescor MPB artists (Céu & more) recorded the Amazon Original; Milton Nascimento was promoted across the Nação MPB campaign and the Rediscover podcast.

Nação MPB
Milton NascimentoRita LeeGilberto GilMarisa Monte
Frescor MPB
Bryan BehrCéuLuedji LunaVitor Kley
↻ Content umbrella · flywheel · catalog lift
Frescor MPB mini-doc featured on Amazon.com
Nação / Frescor campaign
Marketing across the MPB flagship playlists and exclusive content
Vitor Kley — Maria MariaCéu — Nada Será Como AntesLuedji Luna — CaisBryan Behr — Travessia[Re]Discover Milton — Amazon Original music
Amazon Original
Frescor MPB artists record exclusive originals — a tribute to Milton Nascimento, a legendary Nação MPB artist.
[Re]Discover Milton — podcast
Rediscover Milton
Podcast franchise amplifies the icon.
Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges — Clube da Esquina (1972)
Catalog lift
Each format drives plays back to the catalogue.
04Sertanejo

Balada Sertaneja

2021–2022

The sertanejo franchise activation — OOH across Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Goiânia, the genre’s capital in Brazil, where most of sertanejo’s biggest names live and keep their offices and teams. The billboards went up on strategic routes on purpose — so the artists themselves would catch the campaign on the way home or to the airport.

Marília MendonçaGusttavo LimaHenrique & JulianoJorge & MateusZé Neto & Cristiano