Digital technology, once accused of nearly destroying the music industry, is now being hailed as its saviour. As a sign of streaming’s maturity, listening data has now been incorporated in the UK’s official albums charts for the first time. Online streaming services, from the likes of Spotify, Deezer and Last FM have flourished along with the rise of the connected smartphone and tablet computers.
How are Deezer and Rdio ‐ along with other music streaming services ‐ changing the marketplace? While streaming continues to drive music discovery and consumption, what does it do for music sales? As streaming and download services command an increasingly larger piece of the music consumption puzzle what impact is this having on radio and TV? How do songwriters/artists interact with the various streaming services to maximise their return and exposure? What are the most effective strategies for emerging artists and songwriters to be heard in today’s streaming age given the abundance of music that they must compete with including new acts as well as the legacy of the past? How has the revenue mix changed in the digital era and how can artists maximise income streams given those changes? How do streaming services help artists find an audience for their music? What acts have recently broken through internationally and why? Are there any commonalities in the reasons why they’ve succeeded on a global platform?
These are just some of the topics that we will explore at this not to be missed seminar at IMRO next month.
Date: Thursday 5th March
Location: IMRO, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Dublin 2.
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
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The panel will include:
Christian Harris
Christian Harris, is MD for Deezer, UK & Ireland. Christian’s role involves overseeing the brand’s growth in both countries. With an extensive track record in developing businesses for the digital content space, most recently via his media streaming company, Gorillabox, Harris is an expert in web content design, development and distribution in the UK, Germany, Holland and Finland. Deezer is the world’s second-biggest music subscription service. Created in Paris, it has 5 million subscribers and 16 million monthly users in over 180 countries. It offers users access to over 35 million tracks and over 30,000 radio channels.
Eamonn Forde
Eamonn Forde is a music business journalist who has been writing about all areas of the music industry since 2001. He is currently Reports Editor at Music Ally and writes regularly for titles including The Guardian, Q, The Big Issue, Audience and Live UK. Prior to working in the music business, he worked in academia, getting his PhD in 2000. He has won Music Business Writer Of The Year at the past two Record Of The Day Awards.
Alex Vlassopulos
Alex Vlassopulos is Vice President & Head of Business Development, EMEA at Rdio. Rdio is an online music service that offers ad-supported free streaming service and ad-free subscription services in 85 countries. Alex oversees business development in the Europe, Middle-East and Africa region. Before that he was at Omnifone, where he was responsible for overseeing global music licensing and managing the commercial relationships with Omnifone’s customers and rights owners, including all major and independent record labels and publishers. Prior to that he spent the best part of a decade working for Universal Music and Sony Music. In these roles Alex oversaw digital business development functions including brand partnership deals, digital licensing and strategic D2C initiatives.
Ciaran Bollard
Ciaran is CEO and co- founder of MUZU.tv which is a free music video site where music users can watch the largest collection of music videos on the web, on Samsung, Sony, LG Smart TVs and through Xbox. Since the inception of the company Ciaran has led the charge on attaining investment, successfully negotiated key strategic partnerships, all major label and management deals and launching MUZU in 22 markets. MUZU.TV is the only music video site licensed by all major record labels and the independent sector, content includes concerts, music videos, interviews, music documentaries and more. MUZU also have a partner network which includes MSN, Last.fm, Microsoft Xbox, Samsung and Sony Internet TV’s, Global Radio, Express Group, Official Charts, Metacafe, Channel 4, music channels, Prisa Group, NME, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The O2 and many more. Muzu generate revenue through premium video advertising. Artists, labels, festivals, broadcasters and all music content owners get a 50/50 share of the advertising revenue generated from plays of their videos on and off the Muzu site. MUZU has Offices in Dublin, London, Germany and Spain and has 15m active users.
