The AristoMedia Group is a Nashville-based, independent entertainment marketing/media/promotion firm representing
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...
artists and industry clients. The company was founded in 1980 by former
Con Brio Records
Con Brio Records was a record label active from 1975 to 1979 based in Nashville, Tennessee. Jeff Walker was co-founder and President of the label with his father Bill Walker. It was named Billboard Magazine's "Best New Country Label of the Year" ...
Vice President, Jeff Walker. Primary services The AristoMedia Group provides include: Christian and Country video promotion, secondary radio promotion, dance club venue marketing and promotion, new media services, entertainment publicity and video content/EPK distribution.
The AristoMedia Group is comprised specifically of the following branded divisions and services: Aristo PR (publicity), AristoVision (Christian video promotion), AristoVideo (Country video promotion), AristoWorks (new media services), The Goodland Group (video reel distribution), Jeff Walker & Associates (international and domestic entertainment consultation), Marco Music Group (secondary radio promotion), Marco Club Connection (dance club venue marketing), The Goodland Group (music publishing) and DownCast (video content and EPK distribution service).
History
Jeff Walker established The AristoMedia Group as a publicity and PR firm in April 1980.
In 1984 the company established AristoVideo and started offering country music video promotion services. The company began offering Christian music video promotion services in 1989.
The Marco Music group and its radio promotion division, Marco Promotions, was established in 1991. The Goodland Group, a division of AristoMedia, was established in 1994, and in 1995, Jeff Walker and Associated was founded.
Walkerbout Music, the publishing arm of The AristoMedia Group, was re-launched in 2003. In 2004, Marco Club Connection, the dance venue promotion division of Marco Promotions, was established.
In 2005, the AristoMedia Group created and hosted the first Aristo Global Showcase, an international artist showcase held each year during
CMA Music Festival
CMA Fest, formerly named the CMA Music Festival until 2016, is a four-day Music festival centered on country music, hosted each June by the Country Music Association (CMA) in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Beginning in 1972 under the name Fan Fa ...
week in downtown
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...
. In 2006, the group launched AristoWorks (new media), branded Christian video services division as AristoVision.
GMV Nashville
GMV Nashville is a digital record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, founded by Jeff Walker in 2007.
History
Walker founded the label primarily to release digital versions of classic releases from Con Brio Records, which was founded by Walker ...
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an online record label offering digital downloads of classic and contemporary Country artists, was launched in 2007.
In 2009, in partnership with Travis Television Productions, AristoMedia co-developed the DownCast service, a video content and
electronic press kit
A press kit, often referred to as a media kit in business environments, is a pre-packaged set of promotional materials that provide information about a person, company, organization or cause and which is distributed to members of the media for p ...
distribution service. In 2013, the group expanded JWA into international project management.
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Public relations companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in Tennessee