Matt Parsons is the CEO and co-founder of Ditto Music, the world’s largest independent artist and record label services company, supporting over 150,000 artists across the globe. Matt’s award-winning company also provides PR, social media and radio plugging services for selected artists, and has helped launch the careers of acts including Stormzy, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith.

Since Matt founded the company with his brother Lee over a decade ago, they have achieved 20 UK Top 40 singles with independent artists, and now have teams based in the UK, USA, Australia, Brazil, Sweden and South Africa, with more new offices set to open across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Matt is also responsible for the launch of Record Label in a Box, an innovative product which contains all the tools required to set up and run an independent record label as a successful business, and has helped to establish thousands of new labels all over the world.

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