Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc.
is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of
interactive entertainment and leisure products.
Since joining Activision Publishing, Inc.'s Music Department, Director
of Music Affairs, Brandon Young, has been an integral part of each
brands music direction and integration for the company for nearly 10
years, and has spent a great deal of time managing relationships with
top industry artists ranging from Aerosmith, Van Halen, and Metallica,
to pop-country superstar Taylor Swift, to Jay-Z and Eminem among many
others. In addition to this Young and his team have been responsible
for licensing over 3,000 songs on more than 130 titles in his tenure
with the company. Activision Publishing, Inc. is currently the leading
video game publisher in the world with franchises spanning its vast
portfolio such as Skylanders, James Bond, Prototype, Cabela's various
hunting titles, Spider-Man, World of Warcraft, and Call of Duty, which
broke entertainment industry records for the third consecutive time
with its release of Modern Warfare 3. Activision was also responsible
for the hit music franchises Guitar Hero and DJ Hero, which
revolutionized the interaction between music and gaming.
Before joining Activision, Young spent several years with MTV where he
handled music supervision for some of their hit reality television
shows, and shared time with Westies Music on licensing and music
direction for various action sports films and video games. Prior to
that, he was in the advertising field working for some of the largest
agencies in the world and lending his expertise to music direction for
such brands as Apple, Mitsibushi, Nissan, Levis, and Bicardi to name a
few.
