ROSTR Enters Full-Platform Partnership with Please & Thank You

The ROSTR Group has entered a first-of-its-kind partnership with Please & Thank You, the experiential and VIP company connecting artists and fans. The agreement makes Please & Thank You category-exclusive across ROSTR’s VIP Experiences.

What it means:

• For Please & Thank You the partnership creates a single relationship across ROSTR’s full ecosystem: editorial, data, social, events, commerce and industry access.

• For ROSTR it brings in a well-loved, forward-thinking company trusted by artists, teams and fans through its work in VIP, touring experiences, merchandise, premium ticketing and event logistics.

• The collaboration is the first in a small set of category-exclusive partnerships ROSTR will build over the next year, and represents the company’s wider move toward deeper collaborations.

Fine dining:

• The partnership will launch a new quarterly dinner series called Trending People.

• Curated by ROSTR and hosted by Please & Thank You, the invitation-only dinners will bring together executives, managers, agents, A&R, marketers and creatives with momentum that quarter.

• It will rotate between Los Angeles, New York, Nashville and London, with the first scheduled for this summer.

Deeper collaboration:

• Please & Thank You will be the “Presented By” partner for Hottest Tours and The Live World, with co-branding across the ROSTR newsfeed, social channels and New Industry Focus.

• It will also receive custom data feeds from ROSTR tailored to its business priorities, covering trends across the industry, the people moving them, managers and agents by genre, tour announcements and curated contact sets.

• In addition, Please & Thank You will be ROSTR’s commerce partner for ROSTR-branded merchandise, collaborating across product, brand and commerce infrastructure.

• The first launch will arrive in time for holiday season, with broader commerce work to follow.

What they said:

• Mark Williamson, Co-Founder & CEO, The ROSTR Group: “ROSTR has always been about using technology to help create a more collaborative music industry. But we can only go so far. This partnership with Please & Thank You helps connect our audiences with the experts on the ground who are helping artists connect with fans day after day. It's the first in a small group of category partnerships we'll build this year, and Please & Thank You were our dream first partner.”

• Eddie Meehan, CEO, Please & Thank You: “The music industry is finally getting the infrastructure it deserves, and ROSTR is at the center of that. We've been watching them build something special for a while: a real platform for the people who run this business. We've always believed that the companies closest to the data will build the most meaningful relationships in this industry, and this partnership is exactly that. We're proud to be ROSTR's first category partner and even prouder to be building something with them that reflects where this business is headed.”