A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

Ariel Hyatt is the founder of Ariel Publicity, a social media PR firm based in New York. Her agency’s Cyber PR® Campaigns place musicians on blogs, podcasts, and Internet radio stations and coach them to create authentic relationships with fans. Her firm also manages clients full social media output and content (FAcebook, Twitter, Blogs, YouTube and Newsletters). Since 1996, Ariel Publicity has represented over 1,700 independent musicians and bands. Her books Music Success in Nine Weeks & Musician’s Roadmap to Facebook & Twitter help artists get in control of social media marketing strategies and online PR, and she travels to ten countries a year teaching artists to do just that. Ariel proudly serves on the advisory boards of Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, SXSW Accelerator, SoundCtrl, and The New Music Seminar. @CyberPR

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.

Headquartered in Europe, Zebralution is one of the largest international digital distribution and marketing companies. Since its inception in December of 2003, the company has expanded its operations to include offices in the major music markets: Germany (Berlin, and Duisburg), the United States (Los Angeles), the UK (London), France (Paris) and Spain (Barcelona). With label partners from all over the world, Zebralution continues to grow its service offering, delivering to more than 800 digital outlets globally. With specialized service and strong relationships, Zebralution represents a broad repertoire of artists and labels to shop partners from large global providers (iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, mobile providers et al.) to localized, language specific shops to boutique genre shops. Our comprehensive suite of services helps our label partners manage their digital business more effectively allowing for increased revenue and greater global reach. To work with Zebralution, please contact us at info.us@zebralution.com or visit our website at www.zebralution.com