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COAST 2 COAST CONVENTION 2011 - Meet the New Music Industry

Posted by Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes on August 14, 2011 at 6:04pm

Coast 2 Coast Convention 2011

THE COAST 2 COAST CONVENTION 2010 WAS A GREAT SUCCESS!�

2010 RECAP VIDEO

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COAST 2 COAST CONVENTION 2011

9/29/2011 - 10/2/2011

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THE COAST 2 COAST CONVENTION IS A PROFESSIONAL MUSIC INDUSTRY NETWORKING EVENT FOCUSING ON THE NEW MUSIC INDUSTRY. THE EVENT IS PUT ON BY COAST 2 COAST MIXTAPES IN ASSOCIATION WITH ISTANDARDPRODUCERS.COM WILL BE A WEEKEND LONG SERIES OF EVENTS BASED IN MIAMI BEACH, FL. THE MAIN PANEL EVENT WILL BE HOSTED BY J HATCH AND WE WILL FEATURE PRESENTATIONS ON MARKETING, PROMOTION, NEW MEDIA, INDUSTRY ETIQUETTE, PRODUCTION TIPS, MONETIZING PROMOTIONS AND MUCH MORE!

THIS IS A PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING EVENT


FINAL 2011 PANELISTS TBA

PANELS

NEW MEDIA PANEL

Today's Biggest Blogs & Websites

BONSU THOMPSON (EDITOR IN CHIEF - THE SOURCE MAGAZINE)

LOU PLAIA (CO-FOUNDER REVERBNATION.COM)

DJ Z (DJBOOTH.NET)

DAVE MAYS (HIP HOP WEEKLY MAGAZINE)

KP (DATPIFF.COM)

LOWKEY (YOUHEARDTHATNEW.COM)

LIL FATS (FOUNDER/CEO - COAST 2 COAST MIXTAPES)

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DJ/RADIO PANEL

Top DJs, PDs, MDs in the World!

DJ WARRIOR (CALIUNTOUCHABLE DJS/SIRIUS XM)

BIGGA RANKIN (VP - CTE/COOL RUNNING DJS)

DJ NASTY (99JAMZ MIAMI/POE BOY MUSIC GROUP)

DJ KC CHOPZ (POWER96 MIAMI)

DJ GQ (Y100 MIAMI)

MR. PETER PARKER (SHADYVILLE/CORE DJS)

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A&R PANEL

Meet A&R Representatives from Major Labels!

BIG CHUCK (PRESIDENT - POE BOY MUSIC GROUP)

SEAN PIZZ (A&R SLIP N SLIDE RECORDS)

STAN MARSEILLE (A&R NAPPY BOY RECORDS)

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BEHIND THE RHYMES

One on One Session with a Multi Platinum Producer TBA

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PRODUCER PANEL

Meet Today's Biggest Platinum Producers!

ROCKWILDER (GRAMMY WINNING PRODUCER FOR JAY Z, REDMAN)

!LLMIND (PLATINUM PRODUCER FOR EMINEM, 50 CENT, LADY GAGA)

STREETRUNNER (GRAMMY AWARD WINNING MULTI-PLATINUM PRODUCER - LIL WAYNE)

GORILLA TEK (MULTI-PLATINUM PRODUCER - LUDACRIS, PITBULL, 8 BALL AND MJG)

SID 'UNCLE JAMZ' JOHNSON (MULTI PLATINUM WRITER FOR MARIAH CAREY, USHER)

LAMB (GRAMMY NOMINATED PLATINUM PRODUCER FOR MONICA, MISSY ELLIOTT, KEYSHIA COLE)

THE RENEGADES (PRODUCER OF DJ KHALED 'WELCOME TO MY HOOD')�


ALL COAST 2 COAST DJS WILL BE IN ATTENDENCE!

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ATTENTION ARTISTS: SUBMIT YOUR MUSIC HERE FOR CONVENTION PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES

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FULL CONVENTION SCHEDULE

Thursday Sept 29th - Pre-C2C Convention Industry Mixer

EVE (1306 N. Miami Ave, Miami FL 33132)*

9:00pm - Artist Check-In

10:00pm - Doors Open to Public

10:30pm - Mixer Artist Showcase

1:00am - Official Coast 2 Coast DJ Battle

*VIP badge holders drink FREE at EVE in our Red Room VIP Lounge

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Friday Sept 30th - Convention Registration/Launch Party/Awards Ceremony

Hilton Downtown Miami (1601 Biscayne Blvd Miami, FL 33132)

5:00-9:00pm - C2C Convention Registration

Bleu Moon (1717 N. Bayshore Drive Miami, FL 33132)

10:00pm-1:00am - C2C Convention Launch Party & Awards

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Saturday Oct 1st - Industry Panels/'The Main Event'

(Bus service will be provided for all VIP badge holders to and from hotel and event venues)

EVE (1306 N. Miami Ave, Miami FL 33132)*

2:00pm - Doors Open
3:00-4:00pm - New Media/Blogger Panel
4:00-5:00pm - DJ/ Radio Panel
5:00-6:00pm - A&R/ Executive Panel
7:30-10:00pm - 'The Main Event' Artist Showcase

SoBe Live (1203 Washington Ave Miami Beach, FL)

12:00-5:00am - Official Coast 2 Coast Convention Afterparty�

*VIP badge holders drink FREE at EVE in our Red Room VIP Lounge

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Sunday Oct 2nd - Industry Panels/iStandard Producer Showcase

(Bus service will be provided for all VIP badge holders to and from hotel and event venues)

Hilton Hotel (1601 Biscayne Blvd Miami, FL 33132)

11:00am-12:00pm - A&R Session w/Sean Pizz of Slip N Slide Records**

1:00-5:00pm - Separate VIP Event and Attendee Events TBA, Location TBD

EVE (1306 N Miami Ave, Miami FL 33132)*

7:00pm - Doors Open to public / DJ Spinning

8:00-8:30pm - 'Behind the Rhymes' LIVE Producer Interview�

8:30-9:30pm - 'Beat This' Platinum Producer Panel

10:00pm-12:00am - iStandard Producer Showcase

1:00am-Close�- Afterparty at EVE f/artists TBA

* VIP badge holders drink for FREE in our Red Room VIP Lounge

**Exclusively for artists who entered 'The Main Event' Artist Showcase on Oct 1st

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OFFICIAL CONVENTION MEDIA PARTNERS

HIPHOPDX.COM

KEVIN NOTTINGHAM

SOUTH PROMO

NEW INDUSTRY TIPS

REVERB NATION

ALL OUT ALL STAR DJS

GET SIGNED MAGAZINE

URBANLAX ENTERTAINMENT

GROUND UP RADIO

MVP MARKETING AGENCY

EXPONENT ENTERTAINMENT

HHH MAGAZINE

GRINDTIME MAGAZINE

ANALOG HYPE

EAST COAST DIGITAL RADIO

STOP BEEFIN RADIO

GRYND MOBB ENT

HIP HOP U-C-IT

MYSTERIA ENT

FUSEBOXRADIO

MAJOR STAGE

HIPHOPMOGULS

GET WIT IT MAG

SUCKER PROOF DJS

MUSIC MOGUL PROMOTIONS

THE BUZZ CONNECT

UNDERGROUND MOVERS

THEGUICE.COM

MOTA HIP HOP

STARQUALITY.TV

1.FM JAMZ

MISS LS

& MORE TBA!


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PR@COAST2COASTMIXTAPES.COM

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FOR ALL SPONSORSHIP INQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT

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DJ ASSOCIATION SPONSORS

COAST 2 COAST DJS

COAST 2 COAST DJS

CALI UNTOUCHABLES

CALI UNTOUCHABLES DJS

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OFFICIAL ENERGY DRINK

MONSTER ENERGY

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2010 CONVENTION RECAP

'I had a great time being on the panel at the Coast 2 Coast Convention. I was able to discuss the state of the music industry with a group of passionate people who, like myself, are already established in the industry as well as others who are trying to break into the industry. And I got to catch up with folks I have not seen in a minute. Good times in Miami in 2010....can't wait to see what is in store for 2011!'

- Jill Strada (Music Director & Assistant PD of HOT97 NY)

'I was very honored to be a part of the Coast 2 Coast mixtape convention last year. The who's who of the industry were hands on in educating anyone and everyone who was in attendance. There are many convention but Coast 2 Coast's is the one I would strongly recommend to anyone seeking knowledge about the industry. They are not the leading mixtape distributors for nothing.'

- Deborah Rigaud (Director, Business & Legal Affairs | E1 Music)

'The 2010 Coast2Coast Convention was epic! If you missed it i feel sorry for you. From the informative panels, intense showcases to the nightlife at the clubs, the whole experience was super dope!'

- Mike Trampe (HipHopDX.com & Maad Management)

2010 RECAP VIDEO

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QR CODE/MOBILE MARKETING

Posted by ResQ Records/Pikture Time Films on August 11, 2011 at 10:00am

The music business has been and is undergoing crazy changes that is shaking up all the major and small players in the industry. The problem is not the evolution of a different way of manipulating and consuming media but the failure of the player to foresee and yield to these changes.

 

In studying entrepreneurship last semester, I came across the concept of "creative destruction" which for example had eliminated the elevator man and made extinct the typewriter. On the other hand, the same concept has improved the functionality of the cellular phones and mobile devices, which has become the "now" gadget of the 21st century and beyond. If these devices get smarter, they will start to walk.

 

Before I ramble off topic, I want to implore us not to be like the music industry and  ignore the mobile device revolution. Their enhanced functionality/usability has made these devices indispensable to us and their sheer convenience has made them more indispensable to our potential consumer,their new personal companion and 24/7 personal assistant, decision-maker and shopper.

 

As of today, in light of the confusion in the music industry and the advancement in communication technology, it may be wise to adopt the QR code/mobile marketing early. You don't have to be a sorcerer to  see the future as it is coded in black and white.

 

Bob Dylan said it right,"The times, they are a changing." We either embrace it or like the some in the music industry, face exinction, FOREVER.

 

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Piracy-Hit Music Industry Seeking New Ways To Bounce Back In Cannes

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on January 22, 2010 at 10:58am

CANNES - The beleaguered global music industry enters the decade hoping to turn a corner by tackling piracy head on while drumming up new sources of revenue. Grim statistics this week from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) show sales falling by some 30 percent since 2004 as piracy surged. But a huge 12 percent leap in revenue from digital channels between 2008 and 2009 should help lighten the mood at the industry's biggest annual get-together starting Sunday at the MIDEM trade festival in this Riviera resort. The figures show digitally-bought music now accounting for 27 percent of total music sales -- 4.2 billion dollars of 15.8 billion dollars in 2009. "Our vision is music availability everywhere, at any time and in any place. But the biggest question is how do we monetise it in an environment of widespread piracy," Eric Daugan, Senior Vice President Commercial Strategy, Warner Music International EMEA, said in an IFPI report released Thursday. Battered by the slump in CD sales worldwide and the slow response to rampant illegal music downloads and new digital platforms, the industry is finally stepping up efforts to reverse its fortunes. Next week's trade fair will be "all about how to monetise access to music," MIDEM Director Dominique Leguern told AFP in an interview. "Today, the number of technical solutions and different offers (streaming, downloads, etc) are multiplying ... We want to highlight these opportunities and show participants how to access them," he added. Many of the world's leading online, advertising, video, mobile and other technology leaders will also be sharing expertise in new revenue streams, including MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, who will give his first keynote address outside the United States. Guitarist Ed O'Brien from British band Radiohead, which shocked the record industry in 2007 by allowing fans to decide how much they wanted to pay to download their new album, will also fly in to discuss the band's use of the Web to reach audiences. "The music industry is finally seeing the Web as an opportunity more than a threat. Social software and devices such as the iPhone open new, extraordinary opportunities to innovate," said Daniel Ek, CEO of Sweden's music streaming service, Spotify. This year's MIDEM is offering for the first time a wide range of matchmaking and networking sessions as well as conferences on how to finance and develop artists' careers beyond the simple CD -- using social networks such as Twitter and YouTube -- or tips on how to get music used in films, TV series and video games or advertising campaigns. "We are focusing heavily on learning, education and networking because we have to help our participants to identify those elusive revenue streams," Leguern stressed. Thanks to the world economic crisis and the strain in the music industry. attendance at MIDEM is expected to be down for the second year running at around 7,000 participants. But managers of music sensations including Blur, Mika, James Blunt, Lily Allen and the Artic Monkeys will be in town to talk about how they are gradually taking on the former role of record labels by helping guide their artists' careers and manage their rights. New countries attending for the first time this year include Iceland, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Ghana, Madagascar and Vietnam. Asia will be making waves with Korea, Taiwan and Japan due to showcase their latest talent -- including Japanese dance act Amwe, Taiwanese indie singer and composer Crowd Lu and Korean girl band F(X). But it will be the sounds of South Africa on centre-stage as the Country of Honour kicks off a packed programme of events to promote its culture ahead of its hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup this summer. ChannelNewsAsia Follow Me @Twitter.com/ChasinMoPaper
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Tough times in the porn industry

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on August 10, 2009 at 5:30am
Adult entertainment actress Savannah Stern, whose income has dropped because of the rapid decline in job opportunities in the porn business, is replacing her Mercedes-Benz with a used car from her parents.

LA Times Reports On a recent Saturday night, Savannah Stern earned $300 to hang out for seven hours at a party in Santa Monica wearing nothing but a feather boa. The veteran of more than 350 hard-core pornography productions took the job to earn extra cash and to network. But the word at the 35th anniversary party for Hustler magazine was not heartening, especially among the roughly 75 other women working there. "At least five girls I haven't seen in a while came up to me and said, 'Savannah, are you working?' " said Stern, who started in the industry four years ago and, like most adult performers, uses a stage name. "I had to say, 'No, not really,' and they all said, 'Yeah, I'm not either.' " The adult entertainment business, centered in the San Fernando Valley, has weathered several recessions since it took off with the advent of home video in the 1980s. But this time the industry is not dealing with just a weakened economy. A growing abundance of free content on the Internet is undercutting consumers' willingness to pay for porn, and with it the ability of many workers to earn a living in the business. For Stern, 23, the rapid decline of job opportunities in the porn business over the last year has been dramatic. She has gone from working four or five days a week to one and now has employers pressuring her to do male-female sex scenes for $700, a 30% discount from the $1,000 fee that used to be the industry standard. Less than two years ago, Stern earned close to $150,000 annually, sometimes turned down work and drove a Mercedes-Benz CLK 350. Now she's aggressively reaching out for jobs and making closer to $50,000 a year. As for that Mercedes? She's replacing it with a used Chevy Trailblazer -- from her parents. "The opportunities in this industry really are disappearing," Stern said. "It's extremely stressful." Industry insiders estimate that since 2007, revenue for most adult production and distribution companies has declined 30% to 50% and the number of new films made has fallen sharply. "We've gone through recessions before, but we've never been hit from every side like this," said Mark Spiegler, head of the Spiegler Girls talent agency, who has worked in porn since 1995. "It's the free stuff that's killing us, and that's not going away," said Dion Jurasso, owner of porn production company Combat Zone, which has seen its business fall about 50% in the last three years. Porn is hardly the only segment of the media industry struggling with these issues. But its problems appear to be more severe. Whereas online piracy has forced big changes in the music industry and is starting to affect movies and television, it has upended adult entertainment. At least five of the 100 top websites in the U.S. are portals for free pornography, referred to in the industry as "tube sites," according to Internet traffic ranking service Alexa .com. Some of their content is amateur work uploaded by users and some is acquired from cheap back catalogs, but much of it is pirated. Sites like Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube attract more users than TMZ and the Huffington Post. The porn sites are even bigger than Pirate Bay, the top portal for illegal downloads of movies, TV shows and music. Frustratingly for porn producers and distributors in the Valley, none of these sites appears to be making much money. Suzann Knudsen, a marketing director for PornoTube, said the site's parent, Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network, uses it to attract customers for paid video on demand. "PornoTube isn't a piggy bank," she said. "Its true value is in traffic." The adult entertainment business, which was previously in the vanguard of home video, satellite and cable television and digital distribution, now finds itself leading the rest of the entertainment industry in losses from them. "The death of the DVD business has been more accelerated in the adult business than mainstream," said Bill Asher, co-chairman of adult industry giant Vivid Entertainment, who estimates that his company's revenue is down more than 20% this year. "We always said that once the Internet took off, we'd be OK," he added. "It never crossed our minds that we'd be competing with people who just give it away for free." There are plenty of other signs of the porn industry's pain. Attendance at the Adult Entertainment Expo, an annual trade show in Las Vegas that's open some days to the public, was down 20% this year. Pay-per-view programming, a key revenue source for the industry, has fallen about 50% from its peak three or four years ago, according to a person familiar with the cable and satellite TV business. Reliable revenue and employment figures for the adult industry don't exist, since no analysts or economists track it. Adult Video News estimated in 2006 that it was worth $13 billion, but Paul Fishbein, editor of the trade publication, said the number was "an educated guess." "Almost all of the companies in our industry are privately held, and they keep the cards close to their chests," said Diane Duke, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, an industry trade group. The effects of the downturn have been felt most severely by the thousands of people who work in the adult entertainment business. Kelly Labanco doesn't need industry estimates to know what's happening. The makeup artist, who has worked in porn for five years, is landing half as many jobs as she did a year ago and has seen her pay drop from a high of $250 an hour to less than $100. "A lot of companies say they don't even need makeup artists now and the girls can do it themselves," said Labanco, who has returned to her previous job doing freelance music publicity to pay the bills. Even the industry's biggest events aren't worth what they used to be for working people like Labanco. Last year, she and a friend did makeup for a week at the Adult Entertainment Expo and earned $8,000. This year: $1,200. Caroline Pierce, an adult film performer who lives in Las Vegas but flies to Los Angeles for work, said many companies have pressured her to do more scenes for less money. "Instead of paying you $800 to do one, they'll pay you $1,200 for both," she explained. As economic pressures increase, many performers have also changed their minds about what they are willing do on-screen. Previously, women earned hefty bonuses for unusual sex scenes. That's often no longer the case. "A few years ago the girls we got were OK, but not stellar models, and we were sometimes paying $2,500," said porn director Matt Morningwood, referring to a website he shoots for that features one woman and multiple male partners. "Nowadays some of the top-tier models will do that scene for us and you're looking at maybe $1,800. I'm happy for the production, but I feel bad for exploiting the girls' situation." The only growth market most executives see is mobile devices, since they let consumers watch porn anywhere and in relative privacy. Major companies that serve as a gateway to content on cellphones in the U.S. such as Verizon don't allow explicit adult content. But like cable and satellite companies in the 1990s, they may change their minds when they see the potential profit. "Anyone betting against porn being a meaningful driver of traffic and revenue on mobile networks would be making a bad choice based on history," said Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research. Adult performers with big followings probably will continue to prosper, since they often work under a guaranteed contract and have loyal fans who buy all their work. Business managers for Belladonna and Tera Patrick, two of the industry's biggest stars, said their clients were using their celebrity to make money in other ways, like dancing in exotic clubs and licensing their name to sex toys and lingerie. "The economy has forced us to look in other directions such as tangible goods," said Evan Seinfeld, who co-manages Patrick, his wife, and runs her production company, Teravision. But for the "middle class" of the industry, those opportunities don't exist. "It seems at this point that if you haven't established a well-known name, it's really hard to keep working," performer Alexa Jordan said. Savannah Stern is adjusting to that reality. She's shooting scenes for her own subscription website and planning a tour of exotic dance clubs to earn money from her name while she can. After that, she hopes to go to college for an interior design degree and work in her family's real estate development and contracting business. "I wish I would have never gotten into it," Stern said of her career in porn. "When you get used to a certain lifestyle, it's really hard to cut back and realize this may not be forever."
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Porn law revives debate over legality of porn industry in U.S.

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on June 16, 2009 at 1:51pm

LOS ANGELES, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The call for the "Condoms in Porn" legislation in California Monday has revived the debate on whether the porn industry in the U.S. is legal and whether porn stars should have labor protection. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) led a group of people to gather in front of Larry Flynt's Hustler store Monday in West Hollywood to renew a call for a California "Condoms in Porn" law. The AHF is seeking the introduction of legislation that would mandate the use of condoms for adult video performers as a worker safety provision of California's Labor Code. Organizers said the Condoms in Porn law is equal to how the Labor Code currently requires the use of hard hats and other garments and barriers as safety precautions on certain California work sites and locations. The call was renewed after the Los Angeles Times reported that an actress in the porn industry here in Los Angeles has been tested HIV positive. Health officials in Los Angeles said that 22 actors in adult sex movies had contracted HIV since 2004, when a previous outbreak led to efforts to protect pornography industry employees. "We have an industry that is exposing workers to life-threatening diseases as part of their employment," said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of public health for Los Angeles County. "That is outrageous and anachronistic. These infections are virtually entirely preventable." But at issue now is whether porn film and video making is a legal industry in the U.S. Labor protection law only protects legal workers. The debate on whether the porn industry is legal has been going on for many years. In the United States, prostitution is illegal in most states except Nevada. In California, both prostitution and solicitation for rostitution are prohibited. But strangely enough, to buy or sell sex is illegal, but to make money by filming sex scenes and sell porn films and videos seems to be legitimate business. Chinaview
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