Cannes: midem 2012 (28-31 Jan) – PR Guide

• Conference Programme
• Highlights
• PR-Guide
• Midem Lab

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Cannes: midem 2012 (28-31 Jan) – Highlights

• Conference Programme
• Highlights
• PR-Guide
• Midem Lab

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Cannes: midem 2012 (28-31 Jan) – Conference Programme

• Conference Programme
• Highlights
• PR-Guide
• Midem Lab

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Cannes: midem 2012 (28-31 Jan) – press releases and press kits (12/14/2011)

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• Conference Programme
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• PR-Guide
• Midem Lab

THE MOST INNOVATIVE TECH, MUSIC AND BRANDS
INITIATIVES UNVEILED AT MIDEM

(Paris – 14 December 2011) midem, which takes place in Cannes from 28-31 January, today unveils the 30 finalists of midemlab, the international pitching competition for ground-breaking start-ups and app developers across all sectors as well as the names of the 10 finalists in the midem Marketing Campaign Competition, to identify the most innovative and creative use of music in a marketing campaign.

The midemlab finalists – chosen by UK digital consulting company Music Ally and French specialist open innovation consultancy, bluenove – will present their projects to a jury of leading international digital experts including potential business partners and leading investment firms.

They will each outline their cutting-edge technical solutions that offer new opportunities to industry executives, artists and brands to reach and engage with new audiences and generate revenues.

Previous editions have provided a launch pad for some of today’s major technological innovations, such as SoundCloud, The Echo Nest, Songkick and Root Music. The list of finalists for 2012 will herald the next generation of innovation:

Music Discovery, Recommandation & Creation

ChartsNow.mobi (UK) – mass market mobile music service
MPme by Apsmart (UK) – curated internet radio
musicplayr (Germany) – music discovery & blogging
Navegas (Germany) – connecting the world of music tool
Rexly (USA) – social discovery & recommendation
Songs2See by Fraunhofer (Germany) – music game development
SoshiGames (UK) – game-based social music discovery
Twusic by LemonLab (Belgium) – Twitter music application
Watzatsong (France) – crowdsourced music search engine
WhoSampled (UK) – music discovery

Marketing & Social engagement

BandApp (UK) – free instant artist app creation
Beloola by V-Cult (France) – social music service
CrowdSurfing by LiveOne Group (USA) – live content social viewing app
Flowd (Finland) – music marketing and social music service
iPluggers (Netherlands) – worldwide digital radio promotion
Oocto by GeniusMonk (France) – crowdfunding & crowdsourcing music platform
Pipe (Germany) – file transfer for social networks
RockStar Motel (USA) – fan-centric music social network
Tastebuds.fm (UK) – social events discovery
Webdoc (Switzerland) – fan engagement

Direct to consumer sales and Content Monetisation

Getonic (Israel) – direct to consumer social ecommerce
Menyou (Sweden) – online sales and distribution tool
Musicsoft Arts (USA) – interactive music discovery, playback and sales
My Bee (France) – access control and dematerialized payment
Ondango (Germany) – Facebook commerce solution
SonicAngel (Belgium) – next generation crowdfunding label
TuneRights (Sweden) – stock market for music
Tunipop (USA) – connecting merchandise with digital music
Weezevent (France) – cloud ticketing service
WildChords by Ovelin (Finland) – guitar learning game

For full details of midemlab finalists, click here.

midemlab is sponsored by Vivendi.

BITKOM, Cap Digital, Evolver.fm, Finnish Mobile Association, French Web, GigaOM, media.net berlinbrandenburg, Microsoft BizSpark, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Marketing, Music 4.5, Music Ally, Techdirt and Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP) are partners of midemlab.

For the midem Marketing Campaign Competition which rewards the most innovative and creative use of music in marketing, Contagious, cited as the ad’s industry’s authority on creativity and innovation, has picked the 10 finalists. Of the submitted campaigns, 23% came from transport brands, 21% from major retail names, 19% technology brands, 17% from the luxury and beauty sector, 7% from entertainment, 7% leisure, 4% finance and 2% from institutions. These campaigns all have one thing in common: a strong musical element, either through the use of a synchronisation, an artist/brand endorsement, live sponsoring, discovering talent or creating a record label.

The 10 chosen campaigns are:

• “AIRTEL ONE8 – The Birth of a Music Revolution” presented by ROCKSTAR4000 Music Entertainment (South Africa)
• “Carte Musique” presented by Euro RSCG C&O and The Hours (France)
• “Converse Rubber Tracks” presented by Cornerstone and Converse Inc. (USA)
• “HTC Chacha Show” presented by Newcast – Vivaki (France)
• “Mein Tweet als Lied. Mit Vodafone” presented by Torben, Lucie und die gelbe Gefahr GmbH (Germany)
• “Plan B- Ballantine’s” presented by Optimedia and Digital Novaemusik (Spain)
• “The Spa Therapy Album” presented by Pitch & Sync (UK)
• “The Station Sessions Summer Festival” presented by The Syllabus Agency (UK)
• “The Vaccines ‘Wetsuit’ Instagram Video” presented by Anomaly (UK)
• “American Express Unstaged” presented by Digitas and Momentum (USA)

These campaigns will be presented on Saturday 28 January in Cannes to a jury made up of executives from the music industry, advertising agencies and brands, plus media personalities. The winner will be announced as part of the programme of Visionary Monday.

For full details of the selected midem Marketing Campaign Competition campaigns, click here.

Brandchannel, brand-e.biz, Contagious, Frenchweb.fr, Influentia, Stratégies and the UDECAM are partners of the midem Marketing Campaign Competition.

If you wish to register for midem, please click here.
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ABOUT REED MIDEM

Founded in 1963, Reed MIDEM is a leading organiser of professional, international tradeshows. Reed MIDEM events have established themselves as key dates in professional diaries. The company hosts MIPTV, MIPDOC, MIPCOM, and MIPJUNIOR for the television and digital content industries, MIDEM for music professionals, MIPIM, MIPIM Asia and MAPIC for the property and retail real estate sectors.

Reed Exhibitions is the world’s leading events organiser, with over 460 events in 36 countries covering 44 industry sectors. In 2010 Reed brought together over seven million active event participants from around the world generating billions of dollars in business. Today Reed events are held throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, and organised by 34 fully staffed offices.

(Source: 12/14/2011 – MIDEM 2012 | Press Releases & Press Kits)

Happy Diwali 2010 (5th Nov.)

Wish you very Happy Diwali 2010 – Indian Festival of Lights

May the lights of Diwali bring you health,
joy and prosperity to you, your family and  beloved ones.

India Week Hamburg 2009 Hamburg baut seine Beziehungen mit Indien weiter aus

19.10.2009 16:00:32

(PA) Hamburg, 19. Oktober 2009. Indien in Hamburg erleben: Vom 23. Oktober bis 1. November findet zum dritten Mal die India Week in Hamburg statt. Ein vielfältiges Programm mit rund 30 Veranstaltungen informiert über aktuelle Handlungsfelder und Entwicklungen der indischen Wirtschaft, Politik und Kultur. Dabei geht es um Chancen und Perspektiven einer engeren Zusammenarbeit zwischen Hamburg und Indien.

(c) Joerg Boethling / agenda-fototext.de, 'Solarenergie Rajasthan', honorarfreie Veröffentlichung nur im Zusammenhang mit der India Week 2009

Indien ist neben China für Hamburg einer der wichtigsten Handelspartner. Trotz der Wirtschaftskrise verzeichnet das Land ein nahezu ungebremstes Wirtschaftswachstum. Der Anteil Hamburgs am deutschen Außenhandel liegt mit 11,4 Prozent auf hohem Niveau, Tendenz steigend. Große Hoffnungen werden nach den Wahlen im Frühjahr in die indische Regierung gesetzt, ihren Reformprozess der Öffnung fortzusetzen. Diese Entwicklungen und ihre Konsequenzen für die Beziehungen zwischen Hamburg und Indien stehen vom 23. Oktober bis 1. November auf dem Programm der India Week 2009.

„Die Zusammenarbeit mit Indien bietet für Hamburg ein erhebliches Potenzial, sowohl für Handel und Wirtschaft als auch für Wissenschaft und Kultur. Darum freue ich mich sehr, dass Hamburg mit der India Week 2009 das Tor für Kooperationen mit Indien weiter öffnet“, sagt Hamburgs Erster Bürgermeister Ole von Beust zum Start der Veranstaltungsinitiative. Am 26.10. wird er zu einem Senatsempfang im Hamburger Rathaus rund 400 Gäste der India Week begrüßen, darunter zahlreiche Hamburger Indien-Akteure, indische Gäste und Fachdelegationen aus den Bereichen Hafenwirtschaft, Erneuerbare Energien, Life Science, Bildung, Kultur und Wissenschaft.

Gefördert durch den Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg wird die Veranstaltungsreihe von vielen Indien-Akteuren aus Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein getragen, darunter der German Indian Round Table (GIRT), die Senatskanzlei, die Behörde für Kultur, Sport und Medien, die Handelskammer Hamburg sowie die HWF – Hamburgische Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsförderung und die WTSH Wirtschaftsförderung und Technologietransfer Schleswig-Holstein. Auch Organisationen wie GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, der Ostasiatische Verein (OAV) und die Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft sind mit dabei.

Kooperationsfelder Hafenwirtschaft, Logistik, Erneuerbare Energien und Life Sciences

Neben zahlreichen kulturellen Veranstaltungen (Infos unter http://www.india-week-hamburg.org) finden Tagungen und Workshops zu politischen und wirtschaftlichen Themen statt: etwa am 26.10. in der Handelskammer zum Thema „Hafen und Schifffahrt – Kooperationen zwischen Indien und Hamburg“. Zum Thema „Neue Chancen für die Deutsch-Indischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen nach den Wahlen?“ veranstalten GIRT und Handelskammer am 27.10. eine Tagung am selben Ort. Axel Gedaschko, Präses der Behörde für Wirtschaft und Arbeit, und Frank Horch, Präses der Handelskammer Hamburg, begrüßen dazu hochrangige indische Gäste aus Wirtschaft und Politik, darunter auch den indischen Botschafter aus Berlin.

Im Haus der Wirtschaft in Kiel findet am 29.10. eine Veranstaltung der WTSH zum Thema „Wachstumsmarkt Indien – Markterfolg trotz Krise“ statt. „Erneuerbare Energien – Partnerschaft mit Zukunft“ thematisiert eine Veranstaltung der Behörde für Wirtschaft und Arbeit am 29.10. in der Handelskammer Hamburg. Und zum vierten Mal findet das „Hanseatic India Colloquium: Healthcare, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sciences“ am 30.10. im Sprinkenhof statt, das der in Hamburg lebende indische Unternehmer Amal Mukhopadhyay (ELGA Biotech) ins Leben gerufen hat.

Indisch-Deutsche Kooperationen in Wissenschaft, (Weiter-)Bildung und Wirtschaft diskutieren Austauschstudierende und Wissenschaftler am 29.10. auf einer Veranstaltung der Cognos International GmbH und der Fachhochschule Lübeck. Und zum Ausklang lädt die Deutsch-indische Gesellschaft am 31.10. die hier lebenden indischen Mitbürger und Indien-Akteure zur Feier des traditionellen indischen Lichterfestes DIWALI ins Hamburg Haus Eimsbüttel.

Weitere Programminformationen, kostenloses Bildmaterial und eine 22-seitige Sonderausgabe des Business Newsletters Indien aktuell mit Hintergrundinformationen zur India Week als Download finden Sie unter http://www.india-week-hamburg.org

(Quelle: 19. Oct. 2009 – Presseanzeiger – Meldungen | Handel – Wirtschaft)

MIDEM 2009 INTERNATIONAL INDIE SUMMIT

The International Indie Summit at MIDEM is the place where indies discuss issues, share solutions and meet people who can help them grow their business.

Organized in association with Impala & WIN, the International Indie Summit is chaired by Emmanuel Legrand, Editor of Impact Magazine.

International Indie Summit on Tuesday, 20th of January 2009 afternoon…

Labels artists call home
More and more artists are setting up their own label, not simply vanity labels to release they own productions, but full-fledged structures to sign, nurture and develop other artists. Sign of the times? Desire to take control of the creative and business process? Hear the story of some of today’s most creative labels (Bella Union, Buzzin’ Fly, DiamondTraxx, …) from their founders in a panel where art meets commerce!

Indies in the digital landscape
Collectively, indies represent one of the world’s biggest catalogue. However, many digital platforms or services have launched in recent times without any content from indie labels. What are the opportunities to be taken advantage of by digital services and indie labels? What could be done to improve the climate between them? Expect stimulating debate with representatives from both sides.

International Indie Summit Workshops on Wednesday, 21st of January 2009 morning

Getting started in America
Breaking in the US remains the ultimate goal for many executives in the music industry, but cracking the world’s largest music market is not that simple, and can be costly. Specialists of the US market — distributors, aggregators, managers, lawyers — will provide expert views on how to best approach the market.

How to manage the financial crisis?
In times of economic crisis like today, with recession looming and sparse credit, indie labels have problems of their own. How can they weather the storm with limited damages? Finance and management experts offer their solutions.

IAEL legal workshop
Learn how to negotiate at best distribution deals for artists & labels

BE THERE WHEN THE MUSICAL YEAR KICKS OFF!

MIDEM 2009 will offer you access to 9,000 key professionals from 90 countries for four days of high-level meetings, concerts and unparalleled conferences.

MIDEM is where all the sectors involved in the business of music come together to explore new possibilities for the coming years: recording & publishing, A&R, images & brands, digital & mobile.

Register to MIDEM/ MidemNet before November 17 to save 25%

MIDEM 2009, the World’s Music Market: 18-21 January 2009
MidemNet, Music business in the digital age: 17-18 January 2009

Website: http://www.midem.com

(Source: 8th Nov 2008 | VUT (Verband unabhängiger Tonträger Unternehmen e.V. – Berlin) | VUT-Online.de )

Playing for Change: Peace Through Music

MeetJohnSong brings to our attention a global collaborative musical project called Playing for Change: Peace through Music. The concept behind it is that music is a common uniting factor between different cultures, ethnicities and regions. The film and music will be available in 2009, and more information on the project can be found on the Playing for Change website. [read]

(Source: 12/08/2008 – 16:04 | GlobalVoices – Juliana Rincón Parra)

6th South Asia Day – University Hamburg (15th Nov 2008)

SAIFF – South Asian International Film Festival 2008 (N.Y.C.)

SAIFF 2008

NEW YORK, NY – October 9, 2008 – HBO presents the fifth annual 2008 South Asian International Film Festival, SAIFF, with Official Founding Sponsor – SANA, from October 22-28 in New York City.
Featuring 50 of the most dynamic and acclaimed full-length films, shorts and documentaries, SAIFF will not only introduce a variety of ground-breaking independent South Asian cinema, but also discover new South Asian voices and celebrate established filmmakers across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

This year’s seven-day festival kicks off Wednesday, October 22, 2008 with the feature film premiere of writer/director Nandita Das’ FIRAAQ and an opening night gala at the Ziegfeld Theatre at 141 West 54th Street at 6pm. The film is set over a 24-hour period, one month after carnage that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journeys of ordinary people – some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who chose to watch silently. FIRAAQ will be accompanied by a special post-film Q&A including Nandita Das, Paresh Rawal, and select members of the cast. And to close the 2008 Festival, SAIFF will screen RAMCHAND PAKISTANI, a true story from 2002 concerning the accidental crossing of the Pakistan-Indian border during a period of war-like tension between the two countries by two members of a Pakistani Hindu family.

Over the last five years SAIFF has surpassed all expectations with its superior track record of quality films and exploding attendance rates, with a record-breaking 8500 attendees in 2007, which is the largest festival of its kind in the US.

(Source: 10/09/2008 – South Asian International Film Festival 2008)