
ShareTweet TMV sent Nick Arnold Founder of digital music start-up the Holding Pattern along to Australia’s TechConnect 2013 Investor event. Nick writes from the perspective of being a fledgling startup founder seeking his businesses series A funding round. Its a great read folks – enjoy! Last Thursday I was fortunate enough to attend the Techconnect [...]

ShareTweet The annual ARIA awards in Australia has been turned into ARIA Week, with numerous daytime conference events and showcases leading up to the ARIA Awards which celebrates Australia’s recorded music industry. This event report was compiled by; Jakomi Mathews Publisher of TMV and our Australian Staff writer Dana Gilden. The report provides an overview [...]

ShareTweet This August and September, UKTI (UK Trade & Investment, Great Britain’s leading government agency promoting trade and investment in UK based businesses) sponsored a series of roadshows in ten UK cities designed to help British bands, labels, agencies, filmmakers and digital companies apply for and attend industry showcase events such as SXSW and MIDEM. [...]

ShareTweet BIGSOUND 2012… Fortitude Valley in Brisbane was filled with music lovers not only from Australia but Canada, America and various other countries that attended Q Music’s ‘BIGSOUND’ Conference. Starting 10am Wednesday 12th September and ending Friday the 14th, delegates (industry professionals, musicians, media and others) were kept busy with live music, panels, one-on-one sessions, [...]

ShareTweet NARIP hosts its next Music Supervisor Session in London this Monday September 3. In honour of the occasion, we talked with Sharon Dean (Director of NARIP’s London chapter and as well as founder/director of Respect Music and ex Director of Licensing, PRS) about the publisher’s role, sync placements and co-writes. TMV: Tell us about [...]

ShareTweet TMV were lucky enough to attend this Sydney based industry shindig for the first time. Last week Dana Gilden reported on the event from an artist’s perspective (you can read that post here), and this week I’m writing from a music business perspective. Considering many international events have seen ever-dwindling numbers in terms of [...]

ShareTweet SONGSUMMIT 2012, where to begin? This past weekend (26th-28th May) saw around 1100 individuals attend a conference in Sydney’s Convention Centre in Darling Harbour, where as many as 400 speakers represented different sectors of the music industry. Prior to the main conference, the Australian Institute of Music in Surry Hills hosted a ‘Backstage Pass’ [...]

ShareTweet TMV’s UK Writer Laura G Thorne is feeling the love at this year’s Great Escape in Brighton England. Tries to control herself, but can’t. Where music’s concerned, The Great Escape is the sun around which all planets rotate in the UK from May 10-12. While top billing goes to its artist showcases – there [...]

ShareTweet TMV’s Laura G Thorne was in London taking the collective temperature at Internet Week Europe. Here’s the upshot: The streets were alive in London as the pied pipers of tech arrived on November 7th for Internet Week Europe, a one-week-long celebration of innovation and everything web. Headquartered in Covent Garden’s swish Hospital Club and [...]

ShareTweet Tagged with the descriptor “Brand Journeys in Social Media,” the first SoCon 2011 conference in London brought together senior marketers from “brands, agencies and supply-side businesses” to look at how social media is being used by some of the leading companies and experts in the field. Organised by John Horsley, the leader of LinkedIn’s [...]