Levelling the playing field for independent music companies and their artists across Europe.
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🚨IMPALA publishes One billion subscribers and counting – a moment for ambition, experimentation and collaboration
Setting out 5 priorities to shape the next phase of the digital music market (see infographic)
📄 Statement: tinyurl.com/59rhue9f
📘 Plan: tinyurl.com/ncuwwzzh
🎷WINHUB JAZZ & GLOBAL MUSIC DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 3 NOVEMBER🎷
@winformusic is organising the WINHUB JAZZ & GLOBAL MUSIC online event in partnership w/ IMPALA & co-funded by the EU through IMPALA’s Network Project on the 25 & 26 November. Ask your trade association to register
IMPALA is hosting a Q&A session for our 11th Strategic Primer with @MusicAlly on D2F & community platforms, supported by @merlinnetwork
🗓 Tuesday 29th October, 3PM CET / 2PM GMT / 4PM EET
📧Register by contacting your national association
🔗 more info tinyurl.com/55bnwxcz
25 years of IMPALA! 🇪🇺
Featured in the WIN Annual Report, the article shows how our EU-funded network programme brings European expertise to global indie music community.
🔗Read full article & interview with our Executive Chair Helen Smith winformusic.org/
Impala joins WINCON 2026 in Toronto (Nov 9–11) to celebrate 20 years of WIN!🇨🇦
This anniversary edition will explore the issues shaping independent music.
Organised by @winformusic & @CIMAmusic75, supported by IMPALA co-funded by the EU, @merlinnetwork & CanExport
As part of IMPALA’s 25th anniversary programme #WhyIndependentsMatter at So Alive Music Conference in Sofia, IMPALA travelled with a delegation of members to discuss shared priorities and highlight the work of the independent sector across the region.
ℹ️: tinyurl.com/4jxcpm5j
Today in Sofia, as part of the So Alive Music Conference programme, @beggarsgroup Director of Live Licensing, Ruth Barlow, joined moderator Alek Bošković for a deep conversation entitled ‘Independence isn't a genre: who actually wins in today's Music Industry?'.
New faces at So Alive Music Conference. Today IMPALA board member and @Stichtingomp president Kees van Weijen led a mentoring session with new music Executives from the Balkan’s Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria. Great to see the IMPALA network’s engagement in full swing. 💪
Great panel yesterday at MaMA with Guilhem Cottet (UPFI ), Juliette METZ (CSDEM), Mary Vercauteren (Centre National de la Musique), Nicolas Trichet (IFCIC) and Emmanuel Legrand discussing the question of access to finance for music companies in Europe, moderated by Fabien Miclet.
As part of IMPALA’s 25th anniversary celebrations at So Alive Music Conference, members from the Central and Southern Eastern Europe group met yesterday to discuss shared priorities and ways to strengthen independent music across the region.
Regional network development is a strategic priority for IMPALA. This meeting forms part of our 25th anniversary programme, alongside our interview series Faces of the Independent Sector, launched earlier this year w/ today’s chair, Kristiyana. Watch here: impalamusic.org/kristiyana-g…
Today, music journalist Alan Pedder will interview Helen Smith at 13:00 local time in the Presentation Room. You can also join us at IMPALA’s anniversary drinks 6 pm to 7 pm local time at Culture Beat.
#WhyIndependentsMatter
Today in Sofia as part of So Alive Music Conference, we are following IMPALA board member Anca Lupes in action moderating as part of the panel "Making the Impossible: How the World's Biggest Festivals Shape Global Music"
See the programme here: soalivemusicconference.com/c…
This morning at SoAlive in Sofia, IMPALA’s Helen Smith joined a panel on AI, copyright and the future of music, alongside Alice Oliveira (@partisanrecords), Silas Schwarzkopp (@MusikWoche), Sebastian Beresford and Manos Dedevesis, moderated by Dario Draštata (@RundaBalkans)
If you are at the @MaMAevent Music & Convention check out the panel “What support mechanisms can help finance your business in Europe?” today at 1:30p.m. at Théâtre de l’Atelier in Paris!
