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  • All That Matters returns to Singapore with new events on mediatainment in Asia

    All That Matters returns to Singapore with new events on mediatainment in Asia

    MUMBAI: Recognised as the gateway to the Asian entertainment industry, All That Matters has opened its doors for registration and will return to Singapore on 20-23 May 2015. Anticipated to attract thousands of executives and fans from all over the world, All That Matters, is a unique “Business2Business2Fan” experience which combines the complex worlds of brands, consumers, technology and entertainment to focus on new frontiers in Shaping Asia’s Digital Media and Entertainment Future.

     

    Dubbed “the Asian Davos of Digital” and “TED meets SXSW” All That Matters unites the Music, Digital Media, Live Entertainment and Sponsorship industries to stimulate a week long extravaganza of business creativity and connection.

    “All That Matters will be an incredible week of business insights, leadership and collaboration on how best to streamline, integrate and succeed in the brave new world of social and digitally powered entertainment. We’ll be looking down the road to examine new technologies, new audiences, new opportunities and the ways in which marketers and entertainment professionals can keep pace and make money. No one ever wins by standing still,” said Jasper Donat, Co-founder & CEO of organiser Branded.

     

    “We’re also delighted to launch two new events to ensure we’re providing the 360 degree perspective our attendees have come to rely on for their business planning. LIVE! Matters is a deep dive into the booming live entertainment industry and Future Media Matters evolves our Digital and Social Matters properties into a forward-focused forum projecting the innovations and strategies for success in a ‘mediatainment’ world. Of course there will also be plenty of play with our reputation for being Asia’s entertainment connectors being a key differentiator of the whole All That Matters experience.”

     

    Business Matters

     

    The line up over the 4 content and entertainment packed days includes:

     

    Music Matters: Celebrating its 10th anniversary the award-winning Music Matters attracts a power attendance of business executives who also mingle with and mentor young artists wishing to make a career in music at the Music Matters Academy, now in its 3rd year. The Music Matters Live festival taking place at Clarke Quay over 4 nights will once again showcase bands from around the world and entertain the cosmopolitan audiences from our event along with Singapore’s Jubilee Anniversary revellers.

     

    LIVE! Matters: We’re bringing the sports, music, arts and corporate entertainment industry together for the first time to celebrate the booming live entertainment scene.  Incorporating the popular Sponsorship Matters forum (produced in conjunction with the Asian Sponsorship Association), we’re aiming to share best practises and showcase new tech innovation within the large-scale corporate and consumer live entertainment ecosystem.

     

    Future Media Matters: A natural evolution of our Digital and Social Matters properties Future Media Matters brings together marketers and business innovators to highlight how disruptive media technologies, tech innovations and the Internet of Things are inspiring the brave new world in which content rules.

     

    The YouTube FanFest and Biz Fest: Returns to its home in Singapore after a five country sold-out 2014 tour to round off the week with an extravaganza of fan fever in our star-studded show, Meet and Greets and Academy.

     

    For brands and communicators looking to get inside the minds of the millennial and their desirable yet demanding consumer power, BizFest is a showcase forum designed to help you access and unlock this potential of marketing to a millennial audience.

     

    All That Matters will take place at locations throughout Singapore including the Ritz Carlton Millenia, *Scape, Suntec Convention Centre, Clarke Quay and several Timbre entertainment venues.  Registration at the early bird rate of US$799 opens today and will run until February 12th with limited spaces offering up to 40% off the full rate.

     

    In 2014, the All That Matters event won the Trade Event of the Year at the Singapore Experience Awards for the second time (also in 2012) and cemented its reputation as the gateway to Asian entertainment.

     

    Organisers Branded Limited will be releasing the speaker and programme line up over the next 2 months.

     

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    Highlights

     

    *    Asia’s largest entertainment focused conference and festival returns for fifth year to Singapore.

     

    *   All That Matters, winner of the 2012 and 2014 Best Trade Event of the Year Singapore Experience Award, will be held at the Ritz Carlton Millenia on May 20-23rd 2015.

     

    * Music Matters celebrates its 10th anniversary with a bigger than ever Conference, Festival and Academy, with over 70 bands expected from 20 countries.

     

    *    Two new events join the All That Matters line-up

    –    Future Media Matters
    –   Live! Matters

     

    * The YouTube FanFest returns for another star-studded show, meet and greets and academies following a sold out 2014 Asia Pacific tour.

     

    *  6 distinct tracks including 2 large-scale fan-focused events in 2015:

    –    Music Matters
    –    LIVE! Matters
    –    Sponsorship Matters (in conjunction with the Asian Sponsorship Association)
    –  Future Media Matters
    –    Music Matters Live
    –   YouTube FanFest incorporating a whole day of “BizFest” business meetings

     

    We’re delivering more venues, more artists and more fans!

     

  • Music piracy still continues to worry stakeholders

    Music piracy still continues to worry stakeholders

    MUMBAI: The 6th edition of MixRadio Music Connects (MRMC) commenced on a high note today, emerging as one of the most informative and definitive annual music ecosystem gatherings. Held at the Taj Land’s End Hotel in Bandra, the proceedings of the first day were focused on the Indian music scene and its global development as an industry along with a vast understanding of new emerging platforms for aspiring entrants. The conference was attended by top executives, creative professionals, musicians, decision-makers and company heads who contributed interesting insights about the music industry.

     

    The focus of this year’s event is to find ideas and solutions to increase monetisation and build traction for all those involved in the music business, with a special emphasis on the artiste community. Indiantelevision.com founder, CEO and editor in chief Anil Wanvari welcomed everyone to the conference and said, “We hope to establish new grounds in the music industry and share knowledge about the entire ecosystem.”

     

    Branded co-founder and CEO of and Music Matters president Jasper Donat welcomed everyone to the two day conclave and said that he was very excited to be in Mumbai and participate in the event. Mobilium Global CEO Ralph Simon, popularly known as the father of the ring tone, played the perfect presenter for the whole day expressing his unique understanding of Indian music and movies. He believes that the future belongs to the screenagers of India.

     

    The Indian Music Industry president Vijay Lazarus started off the conference by stating the two barriers that are obstructing the growth of the music industry and its investments. According to him, the first barrier is piracy, which affects everyone internationally. He further emphasised, “Due to advance technology, the consumption of music has also increased substantially. However, the monetisation of music for creators and entrepreneurs has gone down. This is frightening.”

     

    The second barrier that stops the growth of the music industry is the inability for the creative and the entrepreneurial fraternities to come together as one. He added, “This is very relevant for India and I am happy that this particular MRMC is dedicated to the artistes as they are the heart and soul of the industry. However, there is also the entrepreneur who is also equally involved. If both the creative and entrepreneurial fraternities come together, we could be a powerhouse and we will be able to monetise our rights”. He concluded his speech by saying that if these two factors can be overcome; there will be no growth limit for the industry.

     

    This was followed by a keynote presentation by Sony Music Entertainment India president for India and Middle East Sridhar S Subramanium. He gave an overview on the current status of our Indian music industry and he said that it is in a “healthier and profitable” position today. He spoke about the “road to a billion” phenomenon and how in a short span of five years, the industry can grow to a billion dollar industry.  He said, “We just need all the right things and get all the ingredients in place and collectively figure work together”. Subramanium highlighted that one of the biggest concerns that lies in the music industry is trying to ape the west.

     

    As part of the solutions, he suggested that the music industry should follow the TV and film industry as examples. He said, “The television industry has a huge advertising market. The music industry is effectively the same thing. People do not want to pay for music anymore. We should focus on making music free in order to curtail piracy. Just like how it happens in television, we should emphasise on getting a large addressable advertising market”.

  • MixRadio Music Connects 2014 gets a spirited start

    MixRadio Music Connects 2014 gets a spirited start

    MUMBAI: The opening night of the 6th MixRadio Music Connects 2014 got off to a spirited start with a party hosted at the Hard Rock Café (Worli) in Mumbai on 3 November 2014.

     

    MixRadio Music Connects 2014, to be on 4-5 November, is organised by Hong Kong based event experts Branded (Music Matters, YouTube FanFest) and Indiantelevision.com Group’s Radioandmusic.com.   The conference will feature the very best of the music industry including international and independent Indian music talent, music labels, mobile operators, streaming services, live companies and social media agencies. Along with an excellent spread of food, drinks and music, the well curated evening was attended by well-known personalities from Indian and International music fraternity.

     

    Speaking about the jam-packed line-up of this year’s conference, Branded co-founder and CEO and Music Matters president Jasper Donat said that he expects a lot of people to be there at the two day music conference. Previously having organised “All That Matters”, one of the largest musical conferences in Singapore in May 2014, Donat added that he wished to see people from the industry and attendees from India to participate in the event. He also briefly spoke about the development of Music Matters Academy that aims to prepare young talents with the business knowledge they need to sustain in a highly competitive world of music.

     

    Present at the occasion were Donat along with  Indiantelevision.com founder, CEO and editor in chief Anil Wanvari, consultant Jay Visvadeva, Indus Music Publishing director Paul Pacifico from the UK based Specific Music, British music composer and producer Kully Bhamra, Terry Mardi of Asian music publishing and Meetal Shah from Lead India.

     

    Originally known as Nokia Music Connects, the music conference had been renamed to ‘MixRadio Music Connects’ in order to reflect an association with Microsoft and the personalised music streaming service. The theme for this year’s music forum is “shaping the digital future” and it will feature various discussions on challenges faced in the music industry and how to empower those through different ways like monetisation etc.

     

    The highlights for this year include keynotes by MixRadio Head, Jyrki Rosenberg, a conversation with Bollywood filmmaker Imtiaz Ali and an overview of the music industry by Sony Music president Sridhar Subramanium.  All India Bakchod’s standup comic Tanmay Bhatt and YouTube sensation duo Maati Baani will also talk about their journey as artistes.

  • Nokia Music Connects is Now MixRadio Music Connects

    Nokia Music Connects is Now MixRadio Music Connects

    MUMBAI: Nokia Music Connects, the premier Indian annual get together for music and digital business professionals is now renamed as ‘MixRadio Music Connects’

     

    While the format remains the same, the name change reflects a universal approach to the world’s simplest personalized music streaming service, and the company is excited to be title sponsors of 2014’s event.

     

    MixRadio Music Connects 2014 is scheduled to be held in Mumbai’s famed Taj Land’s End Hotel in Bandra on 4-5 November 2014.

     

    MixRadio Music Connects is once being organized by Hong Kong based event experts Branded Limited (Music Matters, YouTube FanFest) and Indiantelevision.com group’s Radionandmusic.com.  

     

    Aside from the long term, symbiotic title sponsor partnership, the conference-meets-music festival has support from the Indian Music Industry (IMI), South Indian Music Companies Association (SIMCA), IPRS, PPL, among several other industry bodies.  

     

    In attendance will be the cr?me de la cr?me of industry and trade professionals, artistes, musicians, talent managers, label and digital executives – both from India and overseas. 2013’s conference saw more than 800 industry execs benefit from two days of networking, conferencing and listening to bands and musicians.

     

    The theme of the two day conference to be held this year is “Unlocking the potential.”

     

    Says Branded CEO Jasper Donat:

     

    “We’re delighted that the original Nokia Music team that shared the vision of Music Connects five years ago are still on board for the foreseeable future. This can only help us expand the event beyond its present horizon offering attendees even more collaborative opportunities.”

     

    Says Radioandmusic.com founder, editor in chief Anil Wanvari: “There’s a new government at the Centre led by Narendra Modi and the world has taken note of it. There’s a sense of positivity in business. Already, the music industry in India – led by the major labels – has reported a healthier 2013. We can only expect things to get better from hereon in 2014 and thereafter. Several streaming services are slated to launch this year and the business will gather further momentum. We are grateful MixRadio for continuing to support the initiative organized along with Branded to help the industry to pause, reflect and understand the way forward.”

     

    Says MixRadio’s Jyrki Rosenberg, “Our long-term relationship with Music Connects continues to be very valuable in connecting MixRadio with the Indian and global music business. We have been gathering listening data in India for longer than many of our competitors, which combined with our huge local catalogue in the market allows us to deliver an incredible level of personalization to Indian customers using our personal radio service.  Streaming and downloading is set to grow rapidly in India over the next five years, so it is vital for us to be at the forefront of industry developments in order to unlock our potential in this key market”.