Music Matters would like to thank all of our supporters who prove that music does matter! The support of these organisations are integral to the event’s success.
2muse
2muse is building China's largest legal B2B music network. Founded by veterans of the Shanghai Media Group and China Radio International, 2muse provides commercial outlets in China with professionally programmed, fully licensed music content and services. Business owners get a vastly improved in-store music experience, are freed from the painful task of attempting to manage their music programming on their own, and are for the first time now able to quickly and easily comply with public performance licensing and royalty requirements.
In partnership with one of China's largest music licensing organizations, the Shanghai Synergy Culture and Entertainment Group (a subsidiary of Shanghai Media Group), 2muse is dedicated to providing unmatched service to its customers and to ensuring full, fair, and timely payment to rights holders. For more information on working with 2muse and access to this rapidly emerging market segment, please visit www.2muse.fm
ADMA
The Asia Digital Marketing Association (ADMA) is the voice of, and advocate for, the digital marketing industry in Asia (excluding Japan). ADMA is an umbrella organisation, guided by senior executives in the industry, and charged with gaining consensus and formulating a powerful point of view on all key industry issues. ADMA actively promotes the benefits of using the Internet and mobile as channels to communicate with consumers. It was established to provide leadership and guidance on issues, criticisms and misconceptions about digital marketing as well as providing lobbying and public relations assistance for member companies.
alivenotdead
alivenotdead.com is an online community dedicated to supporting artists and the arts. Our goal is to strengthen artist communities around the world by creating a platform where artists can grow their fan base, meet and collaborate with other artists, and share their creative works. We cover all types of arts, including film, music, fashion, sports, performing arts, and visual arts; and artists on our site range from local indie artists to internationally known celebrities. Since launching in April 2007, alivenotdead.com has grown into a vibrant on-line artistic community with over 400,000 registered users and 1,100 artists including Daniel Wu, Jet Li, Karen Mok, Van Ness Wu and Nicholas Tse.
Canadian Music Week
Canadian Music Week is one of the premier entertainment events in North America. Combining conferences, award shows, a trade exposition, film festival, and Canada's biggest new music festival - Canadian Music Fest - it is a mini global village for artists and industry executives from around the world and all sectors of the business to engage in a free trade of ideas. Delegates assemble for one spectacular week of events to be informed about the state of their marketplace, learn about cutting-edge technologies and trends, and build lasting relationships with tomorrow's leaders.
CASBAA
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) is an industry-based advocacy group dedicated to the promotion of pay-TV via cable, satellite, broadband and wireless video networks across the Asia Pacific. CASBAA represents some 130 corporations, which in turn serve more than 3 billion people over 15 geographic markets across Asia.
Member corporations include leading cable operators, satellite operators, DTH and broadband operators as well as multinational networks and programmers, leading suppliers and manufacturers of cable and satellite technology, related business service providers, communications, advertising & marketing executives, media, government regulatory bodies, telecom companies, new media service providers and network enablers in Asia and worldwide.
DF music org
DF MUSIC ORGANIZATION GROUP has 5 Record labels, own PUBLISHING &
MECHANICAL rights for more than 200 artists & more than 4 500
tracks with different genres of music. Not presented at ASIA &
PACIFIC yet. Searching for representatives, distributors, licensing
& sync opportunities, record deals, compilations, booking partners,
special events, gigs, festivals, remixes, new ventures and etc.
Seeking for funding or commercial license of our new content platform with innovative services: www.dfmo.net
Seeking for customers, who in need to promote projects at ex-USSR territories including Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
EMI Music Publishing
EMI Music Publishing, subsidiary of The EMI Group, is one of the world's leading music publishers. It owns an exceptional portfolio of song copyrights and continues to grow that catalogue by signing the very best songwriting talent who will create the hits of today and the classics of tomorrow.
Music publishing is the business of acquiring, protecting, administering and exploiting rights in musical compositions, earning revenue from licensing the right to use these songs. EMI is very proactive at marketing songs for broadest range of uses globally and continues to play a pioneering role as new revenue streams emerge.
GBOB
GBOB.com organizes the GBOB Challenge, a global live music competition for bands playing their own music. Its aim is to search out and bring the best un-manufactured talent in the world to a wider audience. Currently involving 30 countries, the GBOB Challenge has in just five years become the world's biggest and most respected live music competition.
The GBOB Challenge already has a reputation for breaking new bands. Previous winners have signed deals with Warner Brothers, Universal and EMI as well as production deals with leading producers including Jim Lowe (Stereophonics, Charlatans) and Danny Saber (U2, David Bowie).
IAEL
The IAEL was officially founded in 1977. Over the past thirty years, the IAEL has come to fulfill a unique role for lawyers throughout the world involved in the entertainment industry. It aims to provide a specialist, international forum for the sharing of knowledge and experience of legal and commercial issues.
In recent years it has expanded both the size of its members and the scope of its activities. Nonetheless, continuity of membership combined with the energy of its officers, past and present, mean that the IAEL's style remains distinctly personal and informal.
IFPI
IFPI represents the recording industry worldwide, with a membership comprising some 1400 record companies in 72 countries and affiliated industry associations in 44 countries. IFPI's mission is to promote the value of recorded music, safeguard the rights of record producers and expand the commercial uses of recorded music in all markets where its members operate.
MEF
MEF exists to represent the interests of its global membership across the mobile entertainment value chain. Our goals are to build awareness, create business development opportunities and facilitate the development of commercial guidelines and best practices to promote a healthy and profitable industry.
With global headquarters in London, a Hollywood-based Americas secretariat, an Asian chapter in Hong Kong and the newly expanded EMEA branch, MEF's network of members represents a veritable ‘Who's Who' of mobile entertainment businesses and entrepreneurs. For more information and a full list of members please visit: www.m-e-f.org
MEHK
Hong Kong - The perfect MICE destination that makes everything possible.
Located at the heart of the world's fastest growing economies, Hong Kong is widely recognized as the world's premier destination for Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions. Here, sophisticated infrastructure, easy accessibility, a business-friendly environment, world-class venue choices, professional expertise and a vibrant lifestyle converge to make your next MICE destination decision a simple one. At MEHK (a division of the Hong Kong Tourism Board), we provide one-stop professional support, customized services including business building, advisory services and marketing support as well as value-added hospitality programmes and services to event planners and visitors. For more information, please visit mehongkong.com or contact us at [email protected]
MIDEM
MIDEM is the one stop destination for the world's music community, providing the most valuable knowledge and connections to source business and find solutions.
MidemNet is a high level digital business conference, included in MIDEM registration.
Meet professionals from the recording, publishing, digital, live music, images & brands and artist management sectors.
MIDEM: 23-26 January 2011 MidemNet: 22-26 January 2011 www.midem.com
Mobile Roadie
Mobile Roadie is the leading self service platform to create an iPhone, Android, (coming soon) Blackberry or iPad app in minutes. We power apps for names like Madonna, Taylor Swift, The Doors, Ashton Kutcher, and now Music Matters! Apps natively support Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, French, and English. View more at http://mobileroadie.com, watch our video: http://mobileroadie.com/video, and view a directory of live apps: http://road.ie
Musexpo 2010
MUSEXPO is an international music, media & technology conference based in Los Angeles. Since launching in 2005, MUSEXPO has played host to thousands of executives from around the world and showcased 100+ artists from dozens of countries, many of which secured substantial outcomes. With participation from Larry King (CNN), Tom Anderson (Co-Founder, MySpace), Chad Hurley (Co-Founder, YouTube), Dave Holmes (Worldwide Manager, Coldplay) and many others, MUSEXPO has continued to showcase the future of the global music industry. MUSEXPO has recently launched in Europe and Asia Pacific.
Popkomm
*POPKOMM* is one of the world's leading International Music Business markets and showcase events, taking place in the heart of Europe, the German capital, Berlin. POPKOMM is dedicated to providing a vibrant, creative environment for new, up-and-coming artists to present their talents, and dynamic companies from all over the globe to come together and exchange business. This year's POPKOMM is the central pillar of *Berlin Music Week*.
Berlin Music Week is the umbrella covering all conferences, markets, showcases and events. Popkomm will take place in the city between 8th - 10th September 2010.
RIAS
The Recording Industry Association (Singapore) "RIAS" was formed in 1976 as Singapore Phonogram & Videogram Association representing Singapore's recording companies. The association's objective is to nurture trade ethnics and fair business practices within the industry and acts as the industry's voice either locally or internationally. Our mission is to remind everyone to "Value the Music They Love". RIAS is dedicated to advance the interests of the industry, by promotion and protection of the rights of its members through ensuring the existing of a business and legal environment in Singapore that can support a viable and vibrant recording industry. www.rias.org.sg/
RIM
The Recording IndustryAssociation of Malaysia (RIM) is the nationaltrade association representing over 170 local businesses involved in theproduction, promotion and distribution of domestic and international musicrecordings in Malaysia and it is also a National Group of the InternationalFederation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). In addition to being thefrontline organisation for music industry development and anti-piracyenforcement activities, RIM further hosts Malaysia's premier music awardsevent, the AIM (‘Anugerah Industri Muzik') Awards and has as its wholly ownedsubsidiary, Public Performance Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PPM) torepresent its members in respect of collective licensing matters.
Singapore Live
LIVE! Singapore 2010 is a new international event for the performing arts industry incorporating a groundbreaking conference, an international trade fair, and acclaimed live performances. It will be held from 8 to 11 June 2010 at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore.
This inaugural event seeks to bring together leading performing artists, practitioners, managers, producers, agents and executives from around the world, for four days of interactive meetings, discussions, panels and live performances. The event provides a unique platform for the performing arts and entertainment industry to exchange ideas and concepts, to network and connect, and to collaborate on exciting new projects, on a global level.
Siren
stablished in 1994, Siren Films is an independent production and creative house that was set up to cater specifically to the Pan Asian satellite and cable television industries. Aligning itself in early years with all the major International Recording Labels producing promotional and marketing content, Siren now enjoys a relationship with the music industry, which maximises industry campaigns by offering strategic cross-platform content.
Siren has produced on-air promotions and channel identities for MTV Asia, Channel [V], CNN, CNBC, CETV, Hallmark Channel, Encore Media, CCTV, National Geographic Channel Asia, Disney Channel Asia and complete on-air look for soon to be launched Kix and Thrill channels.
As well as traditional content, Siren also provides Creative solutions for events for clients such as Discovery Networks, Turner, CASBAA, Pepsi, Mini and BMW.
Sony Music Entertainment is a global recorded music company with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists and international superstars. The company boasts a vast catalog that comprises some of the most important recordings in history. Sony Music Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
Sounds Australia
Sounds Australia is Australia's national export initiative, established to deliver a cohesive and unified platform at international showcase market events, supported through a financial partnership between both Federal and State governments, along with peak music industry bodies.
Sounds Australia is committed to providing the best possible environment for Australian Artists to expose their own unique selling points to their chosen export markets and for the attending Australian delegates to be offered value add networking opportunities in order to stimulate negotiations and real business outcomes, allowing them to meet their international objectives and advance their careers.
Synovate
Synovate, the market research arm of Aegis Group plc, generates consumer insights that drive competitive marketing solutions. The network provides clients with cohesive global support and a comprehensive suite of research solutions. Synovate employs over 6,000 staff across 62 countries. More information on Synovate can be found at www.synovate.com.
The Underground
The Underground's original mission was to bring original Hong Kong music to the people of Hong Kong, through fielding live shows in the heart of the city's entertainment district. Now in its 5th year, the group is one of the most prestigious independent music event organisers in town and Underground shows have extended to other cities in the Pearl River Delta. In addition to gigs, these days the Underground also provides recording opportunities as well as offering guidance for young bands.
Universal Music
Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries. Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group, the industry's leading global music publishing operation.
Universal Music Group's record labels include A&M/Octone, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, Fonovisa, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal Motown Republic Group, Universal Music Latino, Universal Records South and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the industry, which includes the last 100 years of the world's most popular artists and their recordings. UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, its new media and technologies division; Bravado, its merchandising company; Twenty-First Artists, its full service management division; and Helter Skelter, its live music agency.
Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi, a global media and communications company.
WAMi
Running for 18 years, the WAMi Festival is Western Australia's premier showcase of original contemporary music. The five-day event electrifies Perth with gigs and showcases, plus the WAMi Awards Night and Too Solid Indigenous Awards. The WAMi Music Business Conference also takes place during the Festival, bringing together artists and music industry figures from around the world to Perth, a magnificent place to share ideas, network and do music business.
The WAMi Festival takes place 19 - 23 May 2010 and the WAMi Music Business Conference runs 20 - 22 May 2010.
Warner Music
Warner Music Group (WMG) became the only stand-alone music company to be publicly traded in the United States in May 2005. With its broad roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, Bad Boy, Cordless, East West, Elektra, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Rykodisc, Sire, Warner Bros. and Word. Warner Music International, a leading company in national and international repertoire operates through numerous international affiliates and licensees in more than 50 countries. Warner Music Group also includes Warner/Chappell Music, one of the world's leading music publishers.
WOMEX
WOMEX is "The most important international professional market of world music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers."
UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity The 08 edition in Sevilla, Spain, saw over 2,800 delegates from more than 90 countries, 650 exhibitors, a full conference and a showcase festival presenting 49 acts.
