The Changing Face of the Bay Area - Northern California MI Businesses Reflect on Benefits and Challenges to Operating in the Region
The San Francisco Bay Area – which, for the purposes of this feature, we are defining as essentially most of Northern California – is one of many areas struggling with…
Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound 2018
Opinions differ wildly, depending on who you speak to as to the relative success of this year’s Musikmesse gathering in Frankfurt. But while it’s inarguable that exhibitor numbers were down,…
Video Clips from Musikmesse 2018
Head over to "MMR TV" to check out interviews from the recent Musikmesse gathering in Frankfurt. We speak to folks from Levy's Leathers, The Music Link, NS Design, Hal Leonard, and…
Musikmesse 2016 Premiere of New Show Concept
From April 7 to 10, the Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre was the setting for a newly overhauled Musikmesse, showcasing the MI sector in Europe. 1,103 exhibitors presented their latest…
Music China 2015: International MI Community Gathers in ‘The Pearl of the Orient’
The news out of China this past summer was mostly centered around the nation’s stock market crash – a main source of global economic volatility for many month – but…
Selling and Producing MI Gear in (and near) the City by the Bay: San Francisco/Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the largest, most vibrant, and most economically robust markets in the country. While metropolitan San Francisco (San Francisco, Oakland, Hayward) can lay…
MDA 'Show and Tell' Event
“The face time you get with people, the quality of the interaction, it’s just great,” says Jon Harris of Harris Teller about Tuesday’s annual Music Distributor Association’s “Meet and Sell”…
Show Report: Music China 2013
[caption id="attachment_48532" align="alignleft" width="800"]Music China 2013[/caption]While the USA was in the throes of a debt limit crisis, the Music China show in Shanghai was proceeding with a steady flow of…
Show Report: Music China 2013
While the USA was in the throes of a debt limit crisis, the Music China show in Shanghai was proceeding with a steady flow of international traffic and business. The…