A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

Posted in Member Services by A2IM

Part of the role of A2IM’s New Media Committee (NMC) is to help its members navigate through the often choppy (and confusing) waters of the digital & new media landscape.

To that end, we embarked on a project a few months ago to deliver a series of ‘White Papers’ where we aim to present members with a short guide to some best practices, as well as a bit of a roadmap for improving your company’s marketing in these realms.

Now we are happy to present the second in the series -

HAVE D2F QUESTIONS? Please submit questions, comments and insights below as a Reply to Post. A2IM’s member-run New Media Committee will endeavor to respond here on the A2IM website.

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT D2F? Attend Tech Day on October 19th in NYC where these topics will be reviewed in greater detail by appliedSB, Audiolife, FanMail Marketing, Insound, and TopSpin, please RSVP to jim@a2im.org.

Posted in 2009 #29, Member Services, Newsletter by A2IM

CD Velocity has been a pioneer in the short-run and on-demand CD business, starting in 1999. Today, we manufacture over 2 million CDRs per year in order sizes from one to 300 for music labels, independent artists and book publishers. We are the on-demand manufacturer for ArkivMusic, and we do many short runs for TuneCORE, including direct-to-consumer shipping. We also do larger runs of stamped CDs and DVDs at very competitive prices, from 500 pieces to a million. (more…)

Posted in 2009 #29, Member Services, Newsletter by A2IM

Audiolife is a Direct-To-Fan eCommerce platform that empowers artists and record labels to sell customized digital and physical merchandise online directly to fans. In addition to its on-demand, no up-front cost solution to inventory management, Audiolife can meet the bulk purchasing, warehousing, and fulfillment needs of frequently touring artists. Specifically created with the new music business artist in mind, Audiolife provides a worldwide, one-stop shop for custom promotion, manufacturing, and distribution of digital, physical and mobile assets. (more…)

Posted in 2009 #29, Editorial, Newsletter by A2IM

The Value of Music

Clearly one of the biggest issues, if not the biggest issue, facing the music industry is that consumers are not respecting music and the need to compensate the creators of musical intellectual property. They also treat music as a commodity they are entitled to by right and the level of appreciation of music has declined. At this point we want to turn this issue over to a guest columnist, Rob Miller of A2IM member Bloodshot Records, for his view on the current “fan” view of music called “Music as Dumpster Pizza”, reprinted with Rob’s permission. (more…)

Posted in 2009 #29, Education, Newsletter by A2IM

A2IM’s Publishing Committee co-chair, Richard Stumpf (Cherry Lane Music) points out an exciting advantage that indie labels and publishers have when seeking valuable licensing opportunities. Read the below “Pub Hub” suggestion. (more…)

Posted in 2009 #29, Newsletter by A2IM

It was reported this month that some of the world’s largest recording companies are suing “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” claiming producers violated their copyrights by playing more than 1,000 songs without permission. A2IM is interested to know whether any of your music was similarly used by this TV show. If so, please write jim.mahoney@a2im.org with the names of the songs (and artists) that were used without license along with any specific information you may have relating to the usage (i.e. air date, what segment the song was used, whether anyone from the show’s Telepictures Productions had ever contacted you to obtain a license, etc.). (more…)