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CMU Insights to dissect the digital dollar at AIM’s Music Connected
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 29 March 2016
CMU Insights has announced it is presenting an insight session as part of the Association Of Independent Music’s Music Connected conference in London next month.
CMU Business Editor Chris Cooke will give a 50 minute presentation based on the report he authored for the Music Managers Forum last year, ‘Dissecting The Digital Dollar’. He will explain in simple terms how both labels and publishers are licensing streaming services, and what happens to monies paid into the music industry by a Spotify-type platform.
Says Cooke: “With streaming now set to become the biggest revenue stream for the record industry, it’s important to understand how streaming services license content from both labels and publishers, and how income is then shared between the rights owners, collecting societies and, crucially, artists and songwriters. Even those pumping content into the streaming platforms often don’t fully understand how this works, and we’ll explain all the basics in our session at Music Connected”.
The CMU session was confirmed alongside a number of other Music Connected speakers and panels last week. Also on the agenda is data, social marketing and playlisting, with Spotify’s Will Page, Communion Music Group’s Claire Mas, Method Music’s Katy Ray, Kobalt’s David Emery, Slice Music’s Justin Barker and Absolute Label Service’s Adam Cardew amongst those set to take part this year.
For info on the CMU session click here, meanwhile for the full Music Connected programme as announced so far click here.
In other CMU Insights news, the next edition of our acclaimed seminars programme has been announced, taking place in June and July in Shoreditch. Once again this will consist of eight two hour sessions exploring how artists generate revenue, the deals they do to unlock income and investment, how music rights work, the role of media and social media in fanbase building, and how artist businesses and label deals are evolving. Each session runs from 4-6pm on Monday afternoons, with full info here.
