A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

Established in 2005, AWAL is one of the world's leading providers of premium distribution and marketing services to artists and labels. In January 2012 AWAL became part of the Kobalt Music Group, the leading global service-based music company, and AWAL's services are now being offered worldwide in partnership with Kobalt Artist & Label Services. AWAL services include: ‣ Worldwide digital distribution to 100s of digital stores and services ‣ Effective retail marketing campaigns with our network of retail partners ‣ Social media marketing and advertising campaigns to engage fanbases ‣ Buzzdeck data analytics to help you shape your marketing activities ‣ D2C platform for easy e-commerce direct to fans ‣ Our own Sync licensing platform that gives you access to many sync opportunities ‣ Premium level of customer support with hands-on product management from market experts ‣ Monthly transparent sales reporting ‣ Best-of-class partners for promo tools ‣ Secure archiving of all your digital assets and data The AWAL service is trusted by 1,000s of artists and labels, and our standard agreement enables you to terminate on just 30 days notice if you wish. For further information: www.awal.com

We created this social web site for A2IM. Loud Feed offers Labels web based solutions for merchandise, tickets and digital music promotion / sales under your brand, from your own site and social media widgets. We provide a low barrier to entry with inexpensive start-up costs and a clear, scalable path to success. This path is a staircase subscription model that steps up our services with modest increases in fees as your business grows, including custom development, support and training your staff. Sell from your own site and keep 100% of the revenue.

Musicmetric are a service dedicated to making tracking and acting on digital trends as simple and intuitive a process as is possible. Our artist analytics dashboard, Musicmetric Pro, is the fastest, most accurate and complete way to get actionable information on any artist in the world. We track three key spheres of online data; social networks, P2P downloads, Web mentions and sentiment. This means access to the most accurate data about where you are growing your fans online and in territories around the world, which social campaigns are driving traction, what kind of PR you are getting on the web and who your biggest influencers are. We also help you to see your online activity in context to real world events and we automatically track gig dates, all single or album releases and TV appearances. Whether you need to negotiate sync licenses, radio plugging, book tours or launch in new territories, Musicmetric Pro will save you valuable time and cover more ground than is possible through human effort alone allowing you to focus on executing not number crunching. Musicmetric will be an asset to the members of A2IM in particular because we make it extremely easy for independent labels and managers to access this powerful tool with our game changing pricing model of unlimited artists per month, per seat. We are committed to helping our customers get the most out of our service and just as proactive about collecting feedback as we are responding to it. We will be initiating bi-weekly screen shares with our new subscribers to help them with their queries and have dedicated support available to all users. To demonstrate our excitement at becoming a member and our desire to work more closely with independents in the US, Musicmetric are very pleased to offer A2IM members the following exclusive discounts; 18 months for the price of 12 with a yearly subscription or 25% off the monthly subscription for a monthly rolling subscription (for the first year).

Next Big Sound is a next generation decision making platform that helps measure the effectiveness of career-building and revenue generating activities that bands, managers, labels and other industry professionals do everyday. Our free site, launched in August of 2009, tracks hundreds of thousands of bands across all the major web properties (MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm, iLike, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia and a dozen others). This free site (nextbigsound.com) has provided the basis for thousands of industry conversations to better understand what value people wanted in our Next Big Sound “Premier” subscription platform. With Premier, we integrate aggregated social music metrics along side your traditional sales/radio data, Google Analytics, etc… to create a powerful, merged data analytics platform. We measure the results of specific actions to inform future decision making, help you find artist opportunities via comparisons and benchmarking; and all of this one location. Next Big Sound is exclusively focused on the music industry, iterates with speed and quality to meet the market and customer’s needs so you can save money and make money while you build artist careers more effectively. For more information please visit http://nextbigsound.com or email info@nextbigsound.com.

Seeking answers to how you can improve your marketing and promo strategy? • Is streaming via web or mobile phone impacting your audience? o BDS captures music streamed online and via mobile devices with streaming providers Vevo (to be added in January 2011), Yahoo!, AOL, Rhapsody, Napster, Verizon, Slacker Radio, MOG, Thumbplay, MediaNet, and Guvera, as well as satellite, network, and music video channels in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the US. • Are you successfully digitally distributing your music? o SoundScan tracks over 40+ digital download providers in the US and Canada, as well as physical retailers and venues. • Need to know where your strongest local markets are, and where to target promotional push? o Via SoundScan, see a sales breakdown for the 99 markets that we track, so you know where your music is being sold (even digitally!) o Through BDS, find out exactly what radio stations are playing your music, so you can adjust your on-air promotional campaign. • How are my sales and airplay activity doing outside of North America? o Nielsen Music International provides airplay and digital sales tracking abroad. • Is streaming impacting my music positively or negatively? o Via custom report, we are able to provide streaming and sales data to compare impact over time. Our powerful research tools, Nielsen SoundScan and BDS, can help you fine-tune your marketing and promo campaigns. Nielsen Music and A2IM are working together to build a range of new packages tailored to the indie community that are flexible to your needs! Please contact us at lily.liao@nielsen.com or 646.654.5606 to get pricing discounts available ONLY to A2IM members.

OTTObeta web-based reporting and analytics application www.ottomate.me OTTO is - A quick and simple to use online tool for uploading, validating and managing sales files - A reporting and sales analytics graphical interface to monitor sales per product and track - A versatile catalogue data processing management tool - In line with the industry reporting processes and templates - Scalable and adaptable to specific needs (number of lines processing, queries output, etc) - A flexible non % based pricing model with standard tiers - An international, dedicated and responsive support team - The result of years of experience in the metadata and supply-chain business - The ideal quick-and-easy solution for the independent with direct contracts with retailers - A tailor-made solution with easy customisation for specific requirements and cases OTTO can - Ingest Digital (download and stream) and Physical sales reports in various formats - Automatically recognise and process sales files from Digital retailers - Integrate new sales formats and templates within days - Ingest your catalogue data within hours with the OTTO template or your own - Synch with CI’s API (for automatic ingestion and updates) - Integrate with royalty accounting software output templates - Validate against your catalogue and offer suggestions intelligently for unmatched sales - Produce homogenized management sales reports and label statements - Export reports in csv, html and customizable xls templates - Integrate new reporting standards from retailers within days - Streamline sales data processing saving numerous man-hours a month - Provide clear reporting and analytics for internal management - Apply VAT, currencies, exchange rates, distribution fee and other rules on demand - Offer sub-accounts for labels with viewing access OTTO is for - Record Labels - Aggregators / Distributors - Record Label Groups With direct retail deals to platforms such as iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Spotify, Youtube and more. OTTO keywords Software / Supply chain / Reporting / analytics / Catalogue management / B2B / Tools FOR MORE INFO and SNAPSHOTS: www.ottomate.me

Section 101 delivers a dynamic web-based platform that provides simple and effective solutions for music and entertainment brands to manage and maximize their online presence. Section 101 enables clients to create beautiful, personalized websites that are easy to use, while providing a powerful suite of integrated tools designed to organize and leverage their fan base across a growing number of online and social channels. Section 101 offers a premier service for clients who prefer Section 101 to provide creative input – from design and development through to the successful launch of their websites, as well as a Do-It-Yourself model, providing all the tools and functionality required for clients to create their own unique website on a budget. Leading music artists and brands like Duran Duran, Kina Grannis, BUSH, Diane Birch, Rachael Yamagata, Marc Cohn, Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Junip, Early Winters, Hesta Prynn, Radio Woodstock, the Rube Goldberg Estate and many others rely on Section 101 technology to power their digital presence.

Topspin is a powerful software platform that offers a full suite of tools for direct-to-fan Ecommerce & marketing. Topspin's technology helps professionals turn art into business and fans into customers. Our platform powers the sale of digital & physical media, merchandise, tickets, fan-club memberships, and multi-product bundles through a clean, simple shopping cart interface. We provide customizable widgets for collecting email addresses, streaming music & video content, and facilitating shares across social networks, and include a full-featured interface for email-blast marketing. We provide our users with deep analytics & data on their fan base, widget activity, and email-blast responses, and offer actionable insights to help you optimize your business. Our partner ecosystem includes record labels, management firms, marketing agencies, web designers & developers, distributors, and fulfillment services, all of whom use Topspin's platform. Our clients include artists of all sizes, from baby bands to former Beatles. New success stories emerge every week, and yours could be next.