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The Kluger Agency (TKA) is an advertising agency with a focus on strategic partnerships and product placement within the music industry. The agency represents both corporations and artists in house. The agency represents over fifty-five brands, partnering them with artists in the music industry.

Company Description

The agency was founded in late 2007 or early 2008 by (then 22-year-old) Adam Kluger.

While the concept of advertising in popular music is not new (Steve Stoute had placed Motorola in Jay-Z’s “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" in 2001), Kluger has specialised in the aggressive promotion of this form of placement.

An advertisement for Plenty of Fish in 2010 Lady Gaga/Beyoncé Knowles video "Telephone" yielded a 20% increase in traffic to the site in the month following the song's release. Plenty of Fish has also placed paid promotions in Jason Derulo’s “Ridin' Solo” and Akon/Flo Rida’s “Available”.

Kluger claims product placements allow performers to monetise the ongoing copyright infringement of their works as "obviously if the song is pirated, the lyrics aren’t going to change” and provide musicians with a larger budget to produce music videos.

“ an artist like T-Pain wants to shoot a $300,000 video with explosions and people jumping off buildings … but the label only budgeted $50,000, he’s going to be open to a few placements if the money attached offsets the costs for his video concept."

— Adam Kluger

The Kluger Agency has worked with a range of stars including Akon, Jason Derulo, Drake, Lady Gaga, Keri Hilson, Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Lopez, Flo Rida, Britney Spears, LMFAO, Kesha, Uncle Kracker, Rick Ross, T-Pain, Timbaland and Lil Wayne.

These two sources were cited as mentioning Kluger, but appear not to have useful info on the agency itself beyond name-dropping:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/business/media/06Adnews.html briefly mentions a BusinessWeek piece which mentions Kluger in one brief line.

"The Rich Afterlife Of Michael Jackson". Forbes. 2010-10-21. Retrieved 2012-08-07. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help) quotes Adam Kluger estimating the value of assets held by the Michael Jackson estate but does not comment on Kluger's agency or the product placements. -->

Reaction and Reviews

In 2008, the agency was criticized by Wired magazine after it was alleged that they had sent an unsolicited email offering to place advertising for Double Happiness Jeans in a Pussycat Dolls tune. The company was virtual and not intended to represent a viable commercial product; the project was a collaboration between Jeff Crouse of the Anti-Advertising Agency and Stephanie Rothenberg, and was intended to be a critical piece.

References

1. "Agency cues lyricists to name-drop brands". LA Business Journal. Retrieved 2012-08-07. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)(registration required)
2. ^ "The Recording Industry's Piracy-Proof Business Plan". Forbes. 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2012-08-07. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
3. "He Puts the Soda in Pop Songs". Businessweek. 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2012-08-07. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
4. "BLOG: "Don't cha wish your website was hot like this?"". MusicRadar. 2008-09-23. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
5. Van, Eliot (2008-09-19). "Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics | Listening Post". Wired.com. Retrieved 2012-08-07.

• Advertising agencies of the United States
• Companies established in 2008
• Privately held companies based in California