May 2013
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Gallery: Luck - The Ace of Spades
JayKay Media Pix deals its hands with playing cards and throwing dice. The Ace of Spades, Diamonds, Clubs, and Hearts as you’ve never seen them before. For more, look at the whole Ace of Spades package
Gallery: New photography-design series - Kitchen...
JayKay Media Pix unveils a new portfolio of photography-design catalogues.
The Kitchen Metallika series looks at cooking and eating utensils from a different metallic light. Check these out.
Kitchen Metallika - Series 1
Kitchen Metallika - Series 2
Kitchen Metallika - Series 3
Kitchen Metallika - Series 4
March 2013
3 posts
Queen on tour? Maybe, says commemorated rock...
A Queen tour in the near future should not be ruled out, said Brian May (right), founding member of the legendary rock band, during a PRS for Music Heritage Award ceremony in London yesterday (5 March).
Guitarist/songwriter May and percussionist/songwriter Roger Taylor, the act’s other founding member, were at Imperial College to unveil the PRS for Music plaque commemorating the venue where...
UK TV-commercials producers and the tech-finding...
Today (4 March), a group of creative stars land in Silicon Valley on a tech-finding mission, courtesy of the UK’s Advertising Producers Association (APA). The mission, which continues until 8 March, will bring some of the TV-commercials sector’s best minds to the homeland of innovative media technology. A delegation of 27 UK-based production companies, including RSA Films, Framestore, Bigballs...
February 2013
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Dutch creativity - being well and truly protected
Planning to do business with the creative industries in the Netherlands? Looks like your rights are well and truly covered. According to the recently published IFPI Digital Music Report 2013, 6.6 million Internet subscribers were accessing unlicensed online-music services in January 2012. By December that year, the number had dropped to 6.1 million.
IFPI and the local music industries say this...
January 2013
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2013: It’s the E-bookonomy year, stupid!
The creative industries should open their eyes and take a closer look at the still clunky dull-looking e-reading devices. They are gradually turning into the predominant digital mass-media distribution channel, and 2013 could be the year in which we see that happen.
It doesn’t take a genius to grasp that, with the right words in the right context, the printed text wins the race to move hearts and...
December 2012
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TechMutiny partners MIPCUBE 2013 at Cannes
JayKay Media Inc and TechMutiny, the free quarterly newsletter focusing on the latest international technology developments that impact the creative industries, are delighted to renew this year’s partnership with MIPCube, the innovative technology and TV/video-content event, when it returns to Cannes in 8-11 April 2013.
JayKay Media Inc is the London-based independent media group and consultancy...
September 2012
2 posts
Photos: Faithless collect PRS Heritage Award at...
JayKay Media Pix Gallery: Maxi Jazz and Sister Bliss, of Faithless fame, at London Jazz Cafe for PRS for Music Heritage Award on 19 September; Maxi Jazz spins some decks afterwards
Dance-music legends Faithless offer sound advice...
“Make up your mind up about what you want out of your own contract. Don’t look at just making music, have your business head on too. And once you’ve got a lawyer to translate all the jargon, it’s simple. But don’t stop (making music) under any circumstances,” said Maxi Jazz, the Brit rapper who fronted iconic dance outfit Faithless with Sister Bliss, when asked what advice they would give talent...
August 2012
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MTF Commentary: Is an Angry Music Industry Turning...
BitTorrent, a perfectly legal Internet technology that enables the mega-speed distribution of content online for free, is used by music pirates illegally to monetise or sell music to which they have no right or permission to use.
Alymysto is a perfectly lawful Finnish industrial-rock band with a significant cult following and a frontman called Timo Vuorensola. He is also an established actor...
June 2012
2 posts
MTF forges partnership with Advertising Producers...
MediaTainment Finance (MTF), the business journal covering investments in the international creative businesses, is proud to announce a new marketing partnership with the UK’s Advertising Producers Association (APA). The agreement sees MTF co-sponsoring The Beak Street Bugle, the London-based APA’s online newspaper targeted at more than 40,000 members of the international advertising community. ...
MTF Commentary: Facebook needs TV more than TV...
If the relationship between Facebook and TV content were a love affair, Facebook would need TV – desperately. TV can afford to play hard-to-get; it has other suitors. The more manageable size of music files has made it easier for record labels and artists to embrace Facebook to reach fans directly, making the social-media giant one of the most effective communications tools for the international...
April 2012
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An MTF commentary: Why TV entertainment’s future...
Broadcasters and programme production companies, take note! The TV business is evolving but its future is being shaped by creative sectors outside traditional TV as we know it. At MIPCube, the international “Future of TV” gathering hosted by French events corporation Reed MIDEM in Cannes on 30-31 March, technology wizards conjuring new formats for accessing TV content were joined by print-media...
MTF SPECIAL REPORT: Raising funds @Techpitch/EMI...
The value of creative works covered by business journal MediaTainment Finance (www.mediatainmentfinance.com) is continuously affected by new technologies designed for digital delivery.
Seeking financing for their inventions, a group of music-technology start-ups touted their ventures at last month’s MUSIC Techpitch 4.5 pitching competition, which took place at the London headquarters of major...
March 2012
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MTF Commentary: Hack Days - when creativity and...
Bosses in the entertainment and media creative sectors have spent the past five years figuring out how to tune out the old and log in to a new world now dominated by technology developments. As demonstrated in the music business and, increasingly, in the film and TV industries, creative folk and technocrats have been at loggerheads as the former accuse the latter of directly or unwittingly...
January 2012
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MediaTainment Finance on judging panel for...
MediaTainment Finance is proud to announce that founder/editor-in-chief Juliana Koranteng has been invited to be a judge on the next edition of techpitch 4.5, the London-based international start-up pitching contest taking place on 8 February. Koranteng’s stellar co-judges include James Smith, partner and commercial operations director at private-equity company The Black Sheep Fund, which is...
December 2011
3 posts
MTF reports: Music 4.5 keynoter says social media...
MediaTainment Finance (www.mediatainmentfinance.com), the business journal, hears that the use of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, is boosting the live-music business.
But while social media might be giving independent-spirited artists and their managers more control over their live-music strategy, the industry will still need third-party experts to help acts make effective use...
Big beer funds big-time TV show: MTF asks if...
MediaTainment Finance (www.mediatainmentfinance.com) notes that US brewery giant Anheuser-Busch InBev is financing a ‘social reality’ TV show to air on proper TV. Called Bud United presents: The Big Time, the series goes on air globally starting 21 January. It kicks off in the US on the major ABC network. Not a hope-to-be-seen website on the overcrowded Internet, or a beautifully packaged...
MediaTainment Finance asks: can start-ups help the...
MediaTainment Finance (www.mediatainmentfinance.com) was forced to ponder the following at the techpitch 4.5 pitching contest for start-ups last night (7 December) in London. How does a news organisation manage the millions of user-generated content and public opinions happily offered by consumers thanks to the Internet? Why can’t book publishers use digital media to make the content of...
