Association News
Below, you’ll find the latest Association press releases, updates on our upcoming events, introductions to our newest member companies, links to the latest content from Music Biz and our partners, and more.
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February 1, 2017 – [EXCLUSIVE MEMBER DISCOUNT] XLIVE Data & Analytics Summit
Interested in learning how to engage, retain and monetize your fans and corporate partners/sponsors more effectively through data-driven marketing? Join the best and brightest C-Level executives in music, sports and entertainment for the XLIVE Data & Analytics Summit on April 4-5 in Los Angeles. Featuring speakers from Country Music Association, Golden State Warriors, AC Entertainment, Linkin Park, New York City Wine & Food Festival, San Francisco 49ers, Warner Brothers Records, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto International Film Festival,... Click Here To Read
February 1, 2017 – NY:LON Connect Talking Points
Music Ally and the Music Business Association co-organized the first NY:LON Connect conference, which was held in London on 24-25 January 2017. The event brought together executives from the music and technology industries to talk about the current digital-music ecosystem, and how it could be improved. Here are some of the key talking points from Music Ally’s coverage of the event.... Click Here To Read
January 31, 2017 – Jillian Kelleher Joins Music Biz Team
The Music Business Association (Music Biz) has appointed Jillian Marie Kelleher to assist with Nashville community relations and marketing for the organization and its Music Biz 2017 convention. Jillian Marie Kelleher is the Founder/President of Connector Entertainment Group, a full-service marketing and branding agency engaged in the development, ownership and commercial utilization of music & lifestyle content. Clients the company has worked with include: Viacom, Columbia Records, Bonnaroo, Warner Music, Live Nation, Rolling Stone, KLOVE, Lightning 100 and more. ... Click Here To Read
January 27, 2017 – Inaugural NY:LON Connect Conference Recap
On January 24-25, the Music Business Association (Music Biz) and Music Ally, in association with Armonia, hosted the first-ever NY:LON Connect conference in London. The event featured keynote presentations from Jonathan Dworkin of Universal Music Group and Ed Peto of Outdustry as well as a one-on-one interview with Will Page of Spotify and a variety of panels, presentations, and more featuring top executives from all three major labels, Merlin, Pandora, SOCAN, Downtown Music Publishing, SpinMedia, The Orchard,... Click Here To Read
January 27, 2017 – Digital Service Workshops Scheduled for Monday, May 15
As you begin to make your travel plans for Music Biz 2017, don’t forget that the event has been expanded by one day for our specialized digital service workshops from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Google Play/YouTube Music, Pandora, and Spotify. A preliminary schedule has been published. More details to come as they are confirmed.... Click Here To Read
January 26, 2017 – [IN THE NEWS] Music Industry is Moving Towards an ‘Attention Economy’, Says Sony Exec
Dorothy Hui, Sony Music Entertainment UK’s vice president of digital, tells the music industry ‘we are moving towards an attention economy’. Hui, whose experience spans partnership marketing, digital retail, direct-to-consumer and social media, said that artists and labels are competing for consumers’ limited attention spans as time is split between audio, visual and social media platforms. Addressing delegates at the NY:LON Connect conference in London, she added: ‘The focus is on building audiences and engaging them.... Click Here To Read
January 24, 2017 – [IN THE NEWS] The Future for Labels? ‘The Enemy That We Have Is Kittens!’
Recorded-music revenues may be on the up again, but how do labels need to evolve to ensure that translates into a rosy future? It was one of the main topics on the agenda at our NY:LON Connect conference this morning in London. Our track on the future for rightsholders began with Bill Wilson, VP of digital strategy and business development at the Music Business Association, setting the scene with his thoughts on labels, publishers and managers.... Click Here To Read
January 23, 2017 – New Member Profile Feature: Newzik
Company Name: Newzik Website: www.newzik.com Location: Paris, France Number of Employees: 8 Number of Years in Business: 4 Company Description: Newzik is a professional software on iPads that allows musicians to read, manage and annotate digital scores. Primary Service/Product: Newzik’s mission is is to improve the productivity for individual musicians and orchestras with an easy-to-use digital solution. Newzik tackles problems of shared annotations between musicians, seamless page turning and empowers conductors to control their orchestra members’... Click Here To Read
January 22, 2017 – [IN THE NEWS] Data, Europe, equality and the value gap: seven things we learned at Eurosonic 2017
Data is king, but you have to know how to use it Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt from the IMMF, and Bill Wilson, VP of digital strategy at US trade organisation Music Biz, which regroups physical and digital music vendors, brilliantly managed to demonstrate the depth of data available to the industry, with the help of reps from Believe, YouTube, Deezer, among others. “Data can help inform making decisions,” said Wilson. “Music is potentially one of the most data-rich industries,... Click Here To Read
January 9, 2017 – Music Watch’s Russ Crupnick Shares Jazz Connect ‘Music Industry Reboot: A Fresh Look at the Way Music is Bought, Sold and Consumed’ Data Presentation
On January 5, Music Biz President James Donio led a panel at the Jazz Connect conference in New York City, “Music Industry Reboot: A Fresh Look at the Way Music is Bought, Sold and Consumed.” Joining Jim were Russ Crupnick of Music Watch, Jim Lidestri of Border City Media, Larry Miller of NYU Steinhardt and Musonomics, and Silvio Petroluongo of Billboard. Lidestri discussed the findings of his BuzzAngle Music 2016 U.S. Report, digging in particularly on the statistics on streaming and the higher percentage of “long tail” tracks that are getting streamed,... Click Here To Read
