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Interviews, speed briefings and indie label discussions with CMU Insights at the Reeperbahn festival

By | Published on Wednesday 19 September 2018

Reeperbahn Festival

The Reeperbahn showcase festival kicks off in Hamburg today, and CMU Insights will be there this week interviewing leading music business people, presenting a speed briefing as part of the event’s training programme, and putting the spotlight on challenges and opportunities facing independent music companies in 2018.

CMU Insights MD Chris Cooke will lead three on-stage interviews as part of the event’s conference programme. Tomorrow at 1pm he will talk to Spotify’s MD of EMEA Michael Krause about the evolution of the streaming firm’s playlisting operation and playlist brands, and about opportunities for the streaming sector in emerging markets in the Middle East and Africa.

Then later tomorrow, at 3.45pm, he will chat to the President of Warner Music’s label services business ADA, Eliah Seton, about the evolution of label services, and how independent labels and artists go about choosing their business partners.

On Friday at 2.45pm he will chat with Jackie Wilgar, SVP Marketing International at Live Nation, about how the music industry’s marketing toolkit continues to grow, and how artists, managers and promoters decide which of those tools to employ. Wilgar will also discuss how recent changes in data protection rules in Europe affect fan communications and how each of an artist’s business partners can better work together to ensure better results.

In addition to the interviews, Cooke will also present one of the CMU Insights speed briefings on Saturday morning at 11am. Based on the ‘Dissecting The Digital Dollar’ report CMU Insights produced for the UK Music Managers Forum, this speed briefing explains how streaming services are licensed by record companies, music distributors, music publishers and collecting societies, and how royalties are calculated each month.

As well as that little lot, CMU Insights is also hosting an invite-only roundtable on Friday afternoon discussing challenges and opportunities facing the independent music sector, and how indie rights owners choose their distribution and marketing partners. The informal discussion will inform a CMU Trends article and CMU Insights research. Any indie label people at Reeperbahn interested in joining the conversation, email sam@unlimitedmedia.co.uk for more information.

The Reeperbahn festival and conference runs through to Saturday – the full programme is online here.



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