ASSOCIATE MEMBER SPOTLIGHT – MVD ENTERTAINMENT GROUP

MVD Entertainment Group is a full-service music and movie distribution company, exclusively representing thousands of audio and visual products for DVD, Blu-ray, CD, vinyl, and digital rights, worldwide. 

MVD Entertainment Group is a leading independent music and video distribution company with a stellar reputation for integrity, transparency and building momentum in sales, year-over-year. 

MVD’s mission statement, “Serving Artists and Audiences,” represents the company’s commitment to the Artists: musicians, filmmakers, record labels, producers, directors, and managers, as well as the Audiences: wholesalers, sub-distributors, major retail chains, online retailers, specialists, and independent mom and pop stores, all the way to the consumer.

MVD’s History:

Founded in 1986, MVD initially built a large catalog of exclusively distributed audiovisual content on DVDs, with special strength in music concert films, horror movies, documentaries, comedy, cult classics, and much more. In 2006, MVD entered the audio distribution business and soon thereafter merged with Big Daddy Music Distribution, picking up a large catalog of CDs, vinyl and digital audio rights.

MVD Today:

MVD stays on the cutting edge of new media with a huge catalog of audio and visual digital rights, and by nurturing its direct relationships with the major digital and VOD platforms. MVD works with a variety of up-and-coming platforms as well and actively pursues new relationships.

In addition to physical, digital and international distribution, MVD also offers a suite of robust marketing and PR services designed to maximize visibility and increase the sales of its priority releases, including retail marketing (in-store promotions, co-op advertising, listening stations, positioning, digital advertising, etc.), as well as a variety of publicity campaigns that target top-tier reviewers and media outlets. 

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About A2IM:
A2IM is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit trade organization headquartered in New York City that exists to support and strengthen the independent recorded music sector. Membership currently includes a broad coalition of more than 700 Independently-owned American music labels. A2IM represents these independently owned small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) interests in the marketplace, in the media, on Capitol Hill, and as part of the global music community. In doing so, it supports a key segment of America’s creative class that represents America’s diverse musical cultural heritage. Billboard Magazine identified the Independent music label sector as 37.32 percent of the music industry’s U.S. recorded music sales market in 2016 based on copyright ownership, making Independent labels collectively the largest music industry sector.

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