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Jennie Sager is Head of Music and Entertainment at Twitter

Jennie Sager’s Tip To Max Out Twitter’s Ability

Jennie Sager, Director of Music Entertainment at Twitter, has recently attended the Mumbrella Entertainment Marketing Summit in Sydney, Australia. She shares her views on how artists could maximise their efforts through the powerful resources of social media and in this case Twitter, the world’s most active site for opinions and trends in the making. Q: Your experiences seem vast and incredibly impressive. How did you come to join Twitter? I started my career in television, but music always played a huge part in what programmes I was producing. For example, in the…

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Alex Goatcher founder and CEO of Know What's Loved

Alex Goatcher on Big Data, Blockchain

Alex Goatcher, CEO and Founder of Know What’s Loved (KWL) explains how their company enables the music industry to target and connect with music fans at the same time accelerate music income and careers. He  also talks about the challenges being a big data company in Asia, the possible effects of Blockchain and why such solutions are desperately needed in…

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Christ Riyanto is founder of Djakarta Warehouse Project

Why Do Festival-Goers Return to Djakarta Warehouse Project?

Christian Rijanto, founder of the Ismaya Group and Djakarta Warehouse Project, shares his side of the story to organising one of the oldest EDM festivals in the region. Set to attract more than 90,000 EDM fans this year, it faces the challenge of the event taking place in the same month as 808 Festival Bangkok and also ZoukOut in Singapore.…

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Kim Oki Band performs at Penang Island Jazz Festival

Korean Band Performs at Penang Island Jazz Festival

Kim Oki, a shorter version of the name Okinawa Kim, is one of Korean’s most promising saxophonist in the Jazz world – a name derived from his love for the people of Okinawa in Japan. He started playing the saxophone in small clubs in 2009 while being a member of the improvisation project, SMFM, led by percussionist Jae Chun Park…

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Interview with Declan Forde Festival Director of Neon Lights Music Festival. Image courtesy of Neon Lights

Declan Forde talks Neon Lights Music Festival

The festival director shares with us his ideas on how to keep a lively festival experience by incorporating new elements that are new to the festival scene. Neon Lights debuted their first festival last year in Singapore returns this year with an even stronger line-up promoting family-fun events in the day and attracting a party crowd in the evening –…

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Maximizing Music Marketing Strategies in the Digital Age

SF Music Tech Summit, in its 18th edition this year, could not be more exciting than any of its previous events. With talks on algorithm-based curation, Blockchain’s practicality, streaming and the startups that are offering all kinds of tools from organising, marketing and distributing music, the music business has gotten just a tad complicated manifested in the form of vast…

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Don M remain as one of the only few that has a break into the music industry in South Korea.
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Why Music Producers Should Attend Mu:con?

Discover Mu:con from Don M’s perspective; the challenges and sustainability of being a music producer in Asia, being part of the Korean pop culture, and trends that the West are seemingly trying to break into. Recently held in Seoul, Mu:con – a music conference – is an annual event aimed at connecting labels, artists and music professionals worldwide. It has…

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Sandpiper Asia Director Talks About RFID technology

RFID, The Cashless World in Music Entertainment

With its recent merger with Sandpiper Asia, GoGorilla’s founder James Kane new found role is anything but mundane. Since the start of the partnership, they have merged GoGorilla’s RFID tech solution with that of Sandpiper’s to provide cashless payment solutions to entertainment events including ULTRA, MediaCorp, Rainforest World Music Festival, Singapore Jazz Festival, Illumination, Future Music and many more. GoGorilla…

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A2LiVE and STORM founder Eric Zho speaks about the EDM industry in China. Image courtesy of Ato Ato Intergrated Media.

A2LiVE Satiates China’s Demand for Electronic Music

China’s biggest EDM festival STORM Festival founder Eric Zho speaks about how he got into EDM and the festival industry which catapulted into something unexpectedly huge and beyond expectation. It’s a story of entrepreneurship that pioneered the reemergence of a sub music genre. It is still the largest music evolution in the East the world has ever seen to date.…

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IMS Shanghai Series: Jason Swamy, Promoter, Wonderfruit + Further Future

Festival Talk: What Does It Take To Promote Thailand’s Newest Festival?

Jason Swamy co-founded Do What You love Ltd in 2011, an experiential marketing agency, which over the last 24 months, has booked over $USD 3 million in talent most notably for Thailand’s newest festival addition –  Wonderfruit. His experience in producing events and promoting talent over the last 15 years saw some of the most prominent names booked under his…

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