Music Connected '10 - UK's biggest digital music trade fair returns
News: 27th May 2010 by Louise Dodgson under Finance, Law & Music Business, Music Training & Careers
Wednesday 30th June 2010, Glaziers Hall, London SE1
• Merlin, Shazam, Nokia, 7 Digital, FatDrop, Napster, We7, Tag Strategic, Sonic Digital, Sound Cloud, Consolidated Independent, Believe Digital, state51, INgrooves And Others Already Confirmed
• Media Junction to present ‘Digital Marketing for Under £1000’ and Warp Records to present digital marketing case study
19th May 2010 - Now in its eighth year, Music Connected ‘10 - the UK's biggest digital music trade fair - returns on Wednesday 30th June 2010, as leading labels and music companies descend on historic Glaziers Hall to meet the key players in UK digital music.
Held in association with Music2Text, Music Connected focuses on independent music companies operating in the digital marketplace, offering a tightly-targeted day of networking, deal-making and practical digital business advice. The event will be divided into two main spaces:
• The Digital Marketplace: Featuring stands hosted by digital music companies - the ideal space to find out more about their services and maybe do some digital deals…
• The Conference Zone: Will host a programme of seminars, workshops and presentations on digital music issues, including market research presentations, case studies of digital marketing campaigns and lively panel discussions on current issues. The full programme will be revealed soon, but highlights of the day will include Media Junction presenting ‘Digital marketing for Under £1000’ and Steven Hill of Warp Records presenting a digital marketing campaign case study.
A third room will offer attendees a bar-serviced networking space directly overlooking the River Thames. Lunch will be provided for all delegates.
Last year’s event drew 400 delegates from over 100 UK labels including Cherry Red Records, Beggars Group, Union Square, PIAS, World Circuit, D Style Recordings, Full Time Hobby, Warp Records, Jeepster, Media Records, One Little Indian, Cooking Vinyl, Nettwerk, Hospital Records, Brownswood Recordings, Ministry of Sound, CR2 Records and over 80 digital companies.
Digital companies already confirmed to attend Music Connected ‘10 include:
7 Digital, Absolute Marketing and Distribution, Believe Digital, BPI, Consolidated Independent, Ditto Music, FatDrop, Finetunes, Gigaboxx, IFPI, IMD Fastrax, INgrooves, Kudos Records, Masterpiece, Media Junction, Merlin, Napster, Nokia, PPL, PRS for Music, Rightsflow, Rovi Corporation, Shazam, Sonic Digital, state51, Sound Cloud, TAG Strategic, We7, Youload, Zebralution. Many more to be announced in the coming weeks!
Date: Wednesday 30th June 2010
Time: 10:00 – 17:00
Venue: Glaziers Hall
Location: 9 Montague Close, London Bridge, SE1 9DD
Nearest tube/rail is London Bridge (Northern Line, Jubilee Line)
Price: £125 (inc. VAT and lunch) non members, £30 (inc. VAT and lunch) AIM members/Friends. Discounts for members of affiliate organisations.
Book via the AIM website here: http://www.musicindie.com/242.asp?sub=Events
Contact Lara Baker - [email protected] regarding exhibiting at this event.
ABOUT AIM
AIM is a not-for-profit trade body established in 1999 to represent the UK independent music industry. Now in its 10th year, AIM acts for over 90% of the independent market, with over 800 members from small start-ups to the largest and most respected independents in the world. AIM promotes this exciting and diverse sector globally, leveraging the sector’s power as a fifth major to enable its members to grow, grasp new opportunities and break into new markets.
AIM oversees an independent sector whose artists have claimed four Mercury Music Prizes in a row (2003 – 2006) and earned two thirds of all nominations between 2005 and 2008. Artists signed to UK Independents also scooped a quarter of all available prizes at the 2008 Brit Awards, with an independent-signed act grabbing “Best British Group” for the fourth year running. This confirms the sector’s undoubted lead in A&R.
The independent sector regularly accounts for 30% of all UK artist album awards (silver, gold, platinum/multi-platinum). In 2009, independent albums made up half of the fifty “best albums of the year” according to the UK music press, and independents claimed seven of the top ten releases.
Artists signed to AIM member labels include: Adele, Amadou & Miriam, Animal Collective, Arctic Monkeys, Basement Jaxx, Big Pink, Bjork, Bloc Party, Bon Iver, Coldcut, Fleet Foxes, Franz Ferdinand, Friendly Fires, Future of the Left, Grizzly Bear, Jack Penate, Jarvis Cocker, Jay Sean, Jose Gonzalez, Justice, Katie Melua, Lost Prophets, M.I.A., Maximo Park, Mr. Scruff, Radiohead, Reverend And The Makers, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Roots Manuva, Royksopp, Seasick Steve, Sufjan Stevens, Super Furry Animals, The Cribs, The Futureheads, The Horrors, The Prodigy, The Raconteurs, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Vampire Weekend, Wild Beasts, The XX and thousands of others.
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