Nashville · Music · Technology · AI
Twenty years in the music industry.
I'm Zack Massey. I came up through radio, I make campaigns and tour films with artists, and I build software for the small problems people in music have learned to work around. I write down what I notice along the way.
- 14 yrs at iHeartRadio
- Creative Director for Luke Combs since 2020
- 20B+ social views across campaigns I've created
- 2025 CMA Touring Award nominee
- Founder of Black Label Creative
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zack massey · creative director · founder
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14 yrs iHeartRadio · programming, content, digital
2020– Creative Director, Luke Combs
2020– founder, Black Label Creative
20B+ social views across campaigns I've created
2025 CMA Touring Award nominee
ls ~/building
sorvo/ the-liner-lab/ black-label/
status --consulting
open · taking new clients
Two ways to work with me
In the music business? See my companies Black Label Creative, Sorvo and The Liner Lab®. /music Have a problem to talk through? Work with me directly Owners in any industry, independent artists, managers and labels. The first call is free and takes 20 minutes. /work
Based in Middle Tennessee? I do AI consulting in person around Nashville.
Latest posts
@zackmassey on instagram
The tools that build an artist’s career have been reserved for major-label budgets for way too long. Fan…
The AI fight that hit hardest on election night was a town vote about one building, not a bill in Congress.
Google's education chief Chris Phillips says Search and AI are "deeply integrated", so schools now get…
Every upgrade skipped the fee, every voucher came from nothing, and the payback order is $602,886. Writing
All writing- Nov 11, 2026 The difference between a viral song and a breakout artist Music industry & data 6 min
- Nov 11, 2026 More content is not a strategy Creative work 5 min
- Nov 8, 2026 The music business doesn't have a data problem. It has a context problem. Music industry & data 4 min
- Pinned Getting started with AI free PDF
Building
What I'm building- sorvo/ music intelligence invite-only beta · patent pending
- the-liner-lab/ artist audio delivery patent pending
- black-label/ creative studio, since 2020 running
Every so often, I write
Music, tech, AI, and what I learned building it.
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