FONMIX took part in NAMM Musikmesse

At the international music exhibition NAMM Musikmesse, held on September 13–16 in Moscow, ForMax, the largest Russian audio and video branding company, the creator of the FONMIX background broadcast player, told young performers and the professional music community about monitoring technology for the use of music and audiovisual works. According to Irina Ostashevskaya, Commercial Director of ForMax LLC, “effective content management is especially important in the era of digital market transformation. A successful right holder knows that his/her rights are under reliable protection, and with the help of up-to-date analytics he/she has reliable information about the use of the work, the possibilities of monetization and the situation on the market as a whole. The FONMIX service helps the right holder in this”.

The FONMIX digital player is a software for legal background audio and video design of various venues: urban spaces, parks, shopping centers, cafes, restaurants, hotels, etc. Through this service rights holders receive information about all performances of their works, which guaranteed accuracy of author’s remuneration calculation, and also ensures transparency of the market, opens new opportunities for authors to popularize and monetize their works.

In the framework of the MuzzLab discussion platform organized at the NAMM Musikmesse exhibition, Victoria Martsinkovskaya, director of work with right holders of ForMax LLC, noted that the use of digital services allows the author to create without being distracted by long and complex legal procedures. “The process of managing your product becomes transparent and understandable. The same concerns the possibilities of monetizing content. The analytics and reporting, which the FONMIX player forms, allows the musicians to see where their genre is popular, in which places their music is more often preferred – all this helps to make the right management decisions to promote the content”.

Currently, the FONMIX catalog contains more than 10 million tracks of various genres. Background audio and video design with the help of the service is carried out at more than 10 thousand various venues throughout Russia. The service is used at facilities from various fields: Rosinter restaurant holding (IL Patio, Shikari, Planeta Sushi restaurants, etc.), clothing, shoes and accessories chains (Zolla, Mario Mikke, Next, Colin’s, Lady Collection, Samsonite, etc.), as well as gas stations, hotels and various urban spaces.

NAMM Musikmesse is organized by the Russian representative office of the exhibition company Messe Frankfurt and the American Association of Music Merchants (NAMM). The exhibition has been regularly held since 2012, which is visited by over 30 thousand visitors. NAMM Musikmesse simultaneously covers two sectors of the music market – B2B and B2C, as well as a wide network of media partners. Among the visitors are beginner and professional musicians, representatives of cultural institutions, producers, distributors of musical instruments and other market participants.