{"id":98608,"date":"2021-01-22T17:37:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T17:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98608"},"modified":"2021-01-22T17:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T17:37:34","slug":"qa","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q&amp;A is a distribution, services, and technology company founded by Troy Carter and Suzy Ryoo in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The company<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/troy-carter-returns-with-new-services-company-qa-in-partnership-with-j-erving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> launched<\/a> as part of a merger with fellow co-founder J.Erving and his firm, Human Resources.<\/p>\n<p>Q&amp;A and Erving later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/sony-music-acquires-distribution-company-human-re-sources-brings-in-j-erving-in-senior-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sold<\/a> Human Resources to Sony Music \/ the Orchard, with Erving moving inside the major music company in an EVP role as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Q&amp;A has worked with independent artists such as Pink Sweat$ and Baby Rose.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020, Q&amp;A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/troy-carters-qa-launches-venice-innovation-labs-including-app-that-can-read-sentiment-analysis-before-songs-are-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> Venice Innovation Labs, a new internal tech innovation division.<\/p>\n<p>The first two products unveiled by Venice were StreamRate and Venice For Labels.<\/p>\n<p>According to Q&amp;A, StreamRate is a mobile app that \u201cgives sentiment analysis before songs are released, saving labels millions of dollars in marketing expenses and marrying data with A&amp;R\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Venice For Labels enables labels to \u201cdistribute music, manage their artist roster, and track splits &amp; payments\u201d all in one place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q&#038;A was co-founded by Troy Carter in 2019, and is based in Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":62377,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98608","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}