AfricaCom launches Digital Music Africa
Digital Music Africa is the latest addition to the agenda of AfricaCom, set to take place in Cape Town, South Africa in November this year. The new event aims to discuss how the digital music market is shaping up in Africa.
Africa's digital music market is structuring itself around an emerging ecosystem comprising of labels, telcos, aggregators, digital service providers, distributors, handset manufacturers, app developers, collecting societies and more. To make sense of the market and to identify where the business opportunities lie, AfricaCom is launching Digital Music Africa.
In a packed one-day programme of discussions and presentations, Digital Music Africa will bring together all stakeholders to learn from each other, share ideas and do business in this exciting market.
Key issues and opportunities include:
- Building the foundations for a sustainable music industry in Africa: What is needed?
- Monetising music and sharing revenues in Africa's digital music market
- Building a central position for telcos in Africa's digital music ecosystem to increase data revenues
- Music labels in Africa: Finding new ways of nurturing and promoting talent in Africa
- Being creative both in content and in business: the rise of alternative players
- How are smartphones and new devices changing the music market?
- What about the artists? Finding new ways to connect to fans in the digital ecosystem