Music 4.5, 4th March 2010
Event Partners
Bristol Music Foundation
The Bristol Music Foundation (BMF) is run by music industry professionals in Bristol and supports the development of music businesses and musicians in Bristol and the South West of England. The BMF is dedicated to encouraging partnerships and networks in the region and connects regional music forums across the South West via the South West Music Forum to provide a joined-up approach to activity, share ideas and knowledge, and raise the profitability and international profile of the music industry in the South West.
brand-e.biz
brand-e.biz specialises in bringing global news, views and analysis of all areas of branded entertainment. We have our fingers on the pulse of ad innovation and, in addition to our flagship brand-e.biz website, we publish regular trend updates and bespoke reports. We also run a series of brand salons in London. We recently launched brand-m.biz, an online channel providing insights into music marketing.
Chinwag
“Connecting Digital People”
Founded in 1996, Chinwag is a focal point for digital media practitioners. We aggregate expertise, fact and opinion, and act as a connecting rod for ideas and talent across the new media industries through Internet-based community forums (http://www.chinwag.com), live events (http://live.chinwag.com), the UK’s leading job site dedicated to the digital sector (http://jobs.chinwag.com) as well as supporting the UK digital sector with overseas expansion through the Digital Mission (http://digital-mission.org) series of events and workshops.
Featured Artists Coalition
The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) is a not-for-profit organisation set up to protect the rights of featured musical artists, particularly in the new digital age. It encourages a greater connection between fans and artists and aims to promote transparency in the music industry specifically to the benefit of the artists themselves.
Green House Group
Green House Group is a collective of artists, designers, developers and marketeers who are working together to help music grow. Their primary focus is helping artists, venues and festivals get the best use out of available online tools and services and helping them to navigate the waters between music and technology.
Music Publishers Association
The Music Publishers Association exists to safeguard and promote the interests of music publishers and the writers signed to them; represent these interests to government, the music industry, the media and the public, provide publishers with a forum, a collective voice and a wide range of benefits, services and training courses; promote an understanding of the value of music and the importance of copyright; and provide information and guidance to members of the public.
Music South West
Music South West provides an annual convention for music practitioners in the South West of England to meet and discuss current topics and key issues and hear from leading figures from the regional, national and international music industry and education and public sectors.
Music South West brings like minded people together to discuss such work, meet regional, national and international partners, network, listen to great live music, and make plans for the future.
MusicTank
MusicTank is a pre-eminent, sector-specific business development network for the UK music industry – an independent body owned and operated by University of Westminster, set up to inform and guide the future shape of the music business through engagement with industry, change and innovation.Established in 2003, a href="http://www.musictank.co.uk">MusicTank has built an enviable reputation for its ongoing and unique programme of think tank debates, events and conferences, a natural progression from which has been the delivery of incisive reports commissioned from key industry figureheads.
Its content-rich website - www.musictank.co.uk - contains a wealth of industry information and resources, together with event transcripts and podcasts, news, reports, research papers and a newsletter archive.
MusicTank is a keenly sought content and delivery partner for a diverse range of organisations including The Prince’s Trust, Youth Music, CIDA, NIMIC, South Birmingham College, In The City, Music Works, Gramophone Awards, The Great Escape, Canadian Music Week, Midem and most recently, Paddington Development Trust’s Creative Futures programme.
PRS for Music
PRS for Music is home to the world's best music writers, composers and publishers. We exist to collect and pay royalties to our members when their music it is recorded onto any format and distributed to the public, performed or played in public, broadcast or made publicly available online. PRS for Music is one of the world's most efficient combined rights collecting operations. Offering its members more money, more often, at less cost and its customers the most efficient means by which they can use music.
Record of the Day
Record of the Day publish the music industry�s essential start to the day. It features all the news of the day and an editorially-chosen future hit in one easy-to-digest email. Subscribe or sign up for a free trial at www.recordoftheday.com
Screen Digest
Screen Digest is the pre-eminent firm of industry analysts covering global media markets. Headquartered in London, with offices in Monterey, California and Australia, we employ a team of 40 specialist analysts covering film, television, broadband, mobile, cinema, home entertainment, games and advertising. Our online services and reports provide the information and analysis that hundreds of media companies worldwide base their decisions on.
To find out more, please contact Screen Digest sales sales@screendigest.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7424 2820 www.screendigest.com
TechCrunch Europe
TechCrunch Europe is a blog covering Web 2.0 and Mobile start-ups.
TechCrunch Europe is part of the TechCrunch Network, which includes country-specific blogs for France and Japan. In August 2008, TechCrunch Europe was named the best �Web 2.0 and business blog� in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine.
TechCrunch, founded by Michael Arrington on 11 June 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to new companies, we profile existing companies that are making a commercial or cultural impact on the new web space.
Viadeo
Founded in June 2004, Viadeo quickly established itself as an essential tool for professional networking in Europe and beyond. Since then, Viadeo is used by those who want to increase their business opportunities (to discover new clients, staff and business partners), enhance their visibility and their online reputation, and manage and develop their network of professional contacts.
Viadeo's members consist of business owners, entrepreneurs and managers from a diverse range of businesses both start-up and well established. Based in Paris (head office), Viadeo also has offices and teams in the UK (London), Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Milan), China (Beijing), India (New Delhi), Mexico (Mexico City) and Montreal (Canada). The Company employs 200 staff worldwide. For more information, please visit us on the Web at www.viadeo.com.Event Partner Opportunities
Opportunities to partner with the Music 4.5 events are open to relevant media owners and music industry associations/bodies that are involved with the digital technology music sector.
To find out more about event partner opportunities at a future Music 4.5 event, please contact Petra Johansson on telephone +44 (0) 20 3239 9325 or email petra (at) 2pears (dot) com.