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

GoDigital Media Group is a holding company with controlling and non-controlling interests in a myriad of media and technology businesses. We invest in businesses, products, and services addressing growth markets undergoing disruptive change. GoDigital Media Group powers three primary subsidiaries: Cinq Music: Digital music distribution and marketing. ContentBridge: Web based content management and supply chain automation. AdShare: Identification, tracking, and monetization of music, movie, and television assets.

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.

Rumblefish is a groundbreaking music and technology company. We provide music licensing services to social media and technology companies, movie and TV production studios, advertisers, video game makers and iconic brands worldwide. We are focused on providing cutting-edge solutions to the many intellectual property issues facing social media companies, artists, music labels and publishers. Founded in 1996, our clients include Animoto, YouTube, Google, Amazon Studios, Columbia Sportswear, HBO, The CW Network, AMC and others.