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February 23-24, 2006 4th Annual Digital Music Summit Music Industry in the Digital Age Radisson Hotel Los Angeles, Westside

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Participating Sponsors

We expect attendance of over 400 delegates from the music industry, record labels, digital media, developers, hardware makers, audio components, retailers, marketing, peer to peer networking and management and artists.

Music 2.0 will analyze trends and developments affecting the business of digital music, including music's growing portability, digital distribution, piracy, pricing strategies, desktop music production, industry consolidation, online marketing, subscription services, retail sales outlook, peer to peer networking, file-sharing technologies, legislation and legal issues, marketing and advertising, radio and programming, and the rapidly expanding number of services targeting music consumers.

The music industry has been transformed in the past few years. As CD sales have plummeted, digital delivery has soared. After much legal and technological posturing, digital delivery is increasingly label-authorized, not subpoena-inducing. Music 2.0 brings together the brightest minds in the business to evaluate what's working and what still needs to change. The agenda, speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors have the cumulative expertise to raise the level of discussion on the subject of digital music.

As a sponsor in our conference and showcase, you will:
• Play a prominent role at Hollywood 's leading business conference devoted to dealmaking for music, digital technologies.
• Study business models for creating profit for the music industry despite tumultuous times.
• Learn how next generation digital technologies and devices will revolutionize the way music is distributed, and the impact on niche sectors in the industry.
• Place your products and services before potential partners and investors from around the world.

About Music 2.0:
The program takes place over two days, with several hours each day for networking and visiting the Showcase Exhibition Hall. This will allow attendees staffing their exhibit booths an opportunity to attend the program.

Who should speak, sponsor, present and exhibit:
• Record labels
• Digital distribution services
• Music and entertainment marketing
• Software developers
• Marketing and advertising
• Investors and venture capitalists
• Consumer electronics manufacturers
• Retailers
• Professional services including managers, agents, attorneys, business affairs
• Hardware and component makers and manufacturers
• Digital asset and rights management
• Digital Media technologies

Exclusive Sponsorship Benefits:

Build Brand Recognition and Meet Qualified Buyers in our Exclusive Demo Showcase
You can demonstrate your products on an exhibitor table during our networking breaks, and the closing press reception. Meet face-to-face with buyers looking for your products and ready to conduct business. The Showcase reception will also include press and analysts whom are eager to see the hottest trends in mobile entertainment. Network and make deals with key decision-makers for carriers and entertainment companies in one location.

Make a Presentation to the Audience
You will give a demonstration of your products or services to the entire audience during the program for unsurpassed exposure. Case study sessions are encouraged with your partners / clients.

Participate in a Roundtable Discussion
Your company can select a qualified executive to speak on one of our lively moderated panel discussions about industry trends and issues.

Gain High Visibility and Advance Promotion
The Summit will be promoted through a direct mail and multimedia advertising campaign. The direct mail is sent to a targeted list of 80,000+ industry professionals. All of this in combination with signage on-site will help drive buyers directly to you.

Get in the News
You will receive the registered press and analyst list in advance. Our events receive coverage from trade journals, consumer and mainstream newspapers, business magazines, websites, television stations and radio stations. The Showcase Reception makes for a great press opportunity, and is sure to draw even more press this year.

Increase Awareness Via the Web
Sponsors are listed on our web page. Additional coverage includes placement of your logo and hyperlink on our media and supporting partners websites or magazines, including The Hollywood Reporter, Business 2.0, www.WirelessGamingReview.com, and more.

Receive comp tickets for your staff and guests

Press Coverage
Press and analysts will be invited to the summit and the product showcase. You will receive an advance press and analyst list for interviews.

Network with Industry Leaders
We will feature many relaxed social gatherings to help you build revenue and customers, develop leads, and meet potential strategic partners


Who Attends iHollywood Forums:

• CEOs, CFOs, CTOs and business development executives
• Record labels, both major and independent
• Wireless network infrastructure companies
• Game developers, publishers, distributors and aggregators
• Top creators of music content from entertainment, financial services, media, communications and software companies
• Device, handset and handheld makers and vendors
• Architects of next-generation and broadband systems
• Web and portals
• Engineers and software developers
• Professional service providers such as attorneys, consultants, strategists, and public relations
• Venture Capitalists, financial services, strategic investors
  

FOR SPONSORSHIP PROSPECTUS:

John Grosfeld, San Francisco Sales Director (A-M companies)
at 650-759-8728 or john@ihollywoodforum.com

Michael Naughton, Corporate Accounts Coordinator (N-S companies)
at: 310-566-7748 or mnaughton@ihollywoodforum.com

David Ng, Sales Coordinator, (T-Z companies)

at 310-566-7759 or david@ihollywoodforum.com

	Company AIRMEDIA InfoSpace Time Trax MS&K Mercora		Table 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Lunch Sponsor

Yahoo! Music (http://music.yahoo.com) offers user the most comprehensive music-related content, features and information available online. Yahoo! Music provides a wide selection of streaming audio, the Web's largest collection of music videos, Internet radio, exclusive artist features and music news covering all genres of music to Yahoo! visitors.

Silver Sponsor

Download, listen to and watch music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, get free music downloads and more on aolmusic.com.

Bronze Sponsors

	AIRMEDIA delivers a complete solution and services for application design, development and integration solutions with your backend systems. To deploy a complete mobile solution that is integrated with your existing business, network, databases and services, AIRMEDIA employs robust server interfaces to connect with your systems. This integration includes complete security services to extend and connect your back office and data to secure mobile clients. AIRMEDIA's integrated solutions ensure a robust, reliable connection and real-time state management of user sessions from mobile and desktop entertainment portals, gaming networks and the associated user authentication and services.
	InfoSpace is a leader in private-label search, online directory and mobile entertainment. InfoSpace consists of two divisions -- Search & Directory and Mobile . The Search & Directory division uses its unique metasearch technology to power a portfolio of branded Web sites and provide private-label search and online directory services. InfoSpace Mobile is a global provider and publisher of wireless content, including ringtones, games, graphics and more, as well as infrastructure solutions that help customers build stronger brands and generate revenue. InfoSpace Mobile distributes its applications through mobile operators, including Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Nextel, Sprint, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone, O2, Orange , 3, TIM and Telefonica Moviles.
	Established in 1908, the attorneys of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP provide integrated legal and business solutions addressing our clients' concerns in the following areas: Bankruptcy, Class Action Defense, Corporate / Business Transactions, Electronic Entertainment and Gaming, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Entertainment and New Media, Environmental Law, Family Wealth Planning / Trusts & Estates, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual Property and Technology, Labor and Employment, Litigation, Real Estate and Tax.
	Mercora's mission is to catalog and organize the world's music and make it universally searchable and legally listenable. Quite simply: Mercora has built the world's largest and legal music radio network composed almost entirely of music resident on people's computers. Our strategy is to: 1) create the world's largest music catalog by leveraging peer-to-peer technologies and user contributed content, 2) unleash the music by building technologies that make this content available to anyone on the network in the form of CD-quality broadcasts, 3) delight the listener by providing great search, discovery, personalization and community services, and 4) uphold the letter and spirit of the copyright law by building compliance and reporting into our products and services and paying performance royalties to organizations that represent songwriters and music record labels.
	Tusonic provides the first music information platform designed to provide music information, personalization, and community features to digital music-oriented businesses. The Tusonic platform allows music information such as upcoming concerts, music on TV, music news, artist bios, and album reviews to be integrated into a personalized music experience. The platform also includes personalized music recommendations, email and SMS music event notification, and integrated mobile support.
	TimeTrax lets you record XM, XM-Online and SIRIUS broadcasts including music, talk, news, sports, comedy and more. Content is stored on your hard drive as individual MP3s (or any other of six file formats), ready for a CD-R, your MP3 player or to enjoy right on your computer. A first of its kind product, TimeTrax defines the digital audio recorder market. Consumers now create programming of what they want to listen to when they want. Now supporting the Sirius Sportster plug-n-play radio, you no longer need a second satellite tuner & subscription to use TimeTrax: the same Sportster that you have in your car is now compatible with TimeTrax!

Exhibit Sponsors

MusicGiants is the first commercial download service offering high-fidelity music files, including the complete digital music libraries of the major music labels, in the Windows Media Audio Lossless format. This format provides the sound quality of the original digital recording, demonstrably superior in playback quality to compressed music from existing download services. MusicGiants' Windows Media Audio Lossless downloads reproduce music at up to 1100 kbps, delivering the true sound quality of the original CD.

ABOVE THE LINE pits two teams of seven potential directors against one another in a series of production-related challenges.

Research Partners

	JupiterResearch provides unbiased research, analysis and advice, backed by proprietary data, to help companies profit from the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on their business. JupiterResearch is a division of Jupitermedia Corporporation.
	Radar Research is a Los Angeles-based research and consulting firm aimed at the nexus of media, technology, culture and commerce. Radar conducts research on behalf of media companies, technology firms, and non-profit organizations, aiding in the development of corporate strategy and addressing tactical questions about emerging consumer behaviors. When appropriate, we share our findings in the trade press, academic publications, and the mainstream media. Radar can design and field market surveys, organize focus group sessions and assist in the development of corporate strategy. We understand the business of culture and culture is our business.
	The NPD Group is a sales and marketing information company offering the most in-depth view of the wireless market with comprehensive coverage of mobile devices, multi-media content and wireless voice and data services. With the leading intelligence across consumer electronics, IT, entertainment, and media, NPD's granular data and strategic insights enable manufacturers, service providers, media/content producers, distribution channels, and financial firms to make highly-informed, fact-based decisions in the evolving mobile and wireless economy. To find out how NPD can help your business gain insight on the complete wireless market, visit us at wireless.npd.com or call Eileen Brown directly at 516-625-2831.
	IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services and events for the information technology and telecommunications industries. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. Over 775 IDC analysts in 50 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends. For more than 40 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research, and events company.

Media and Supporting Partners

	Rogers & Cowan, through its Convergence specialty practice, has been meeting the public relations needs of clients in new media and digital entertainment, consumer technologies and lifestyles, and related programming, hardware and software since 1994. Rogers & Cowan, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, provides public relations and strategic marketing counsel services to iHollywood Forum seminar and conference properties including Digital Media Summits, Mobile Tech Forums and Mobile Entertainment Forums.
	Mediaguide is a privately-held technology company based in Berwyn, PA. We strive to carry a reputation in the marketplace for operating the most advanced monitoring systems and for producing the most comprehensive, accurate, timely, reliable and affordable airplay data products in the world. Our goal is to harness the most effective management of operations and financial resources and most markets served, leading to lowest cost provision of resources to meet our technology and customer service needs. Our staff includes professionals from the media, music, recording, and advertising industries.
	New Music Tipsheet is devoted to keeping the business and consumer worlds up to date with information about upcoming music releases. New Music Tipsheet was created in 2002, as a result of a bunch of indie stores beating up Sperry Media to supply them with thorough new release data. We do everything we can to not only keep everyone up to date about the big releases, but to also turn on the Tipsheet readership to up & coming artists and personal favorites.
	The National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) promotes education, career advancement and good will among record executives. With an emphasis on becoming better informed and more effective executives, NARIP offers professional development opportunities, educational programs and seminars, the opportunity to meet and interact with peers, a job bank, a member resume database for employers, a mentor network, a newsletter and other services. NARIP was created specifically for - and is restricted to - record industry professionals. To qualify for membership, you must work at a major or independent label, record distributor, record marketing or personal management firm. Lawyers, publicists and consultants whose main client base is the record business are also welcome.
	Radio & Records is the preeminent information company serving the key decisionmakers in the radio and record industries. Founded in 1973, R&R offers a broad line of print, Internet, research, convention and seminar products providing radio- and record-industry executives with access to critical research information, including the most comprehensive music-airplay data in the industry. R&R prides itself on being a customer-focused organization committed to providing essential information to the radio and record communities. The company's relationships are a key driver behind its unique access to the more than 1,500 reporting radio stations that contact R&R each week to report new music added to their playlists for the coming week.
	Everyday the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada helps thousands of musicians just like you. We are the largest organization in the world representing the interests of professional musicians. Whether negotiating fair agreements, protecting ownership of recorded music, securing benefits such as health care and pension, or lobbying our legislators, the AFM is committed to raising industry standards and placing the professional musician in the foreground of the cultural landscape.
	AeA, formerly known as the American Electronics Association, is the world’s largest technology trade association, with over 3,000 corporate members and 18 offices worldwide. AeA offers its membership State and Federal lobbying for the Tech industry, events exclusively geared toward CXO’s including industry roundtables, conferences and networking opportunities, insurance programs, teleconferencing, tech industry salary survey data and more. AeA was founded by Hewlett Packard in 1943 as a West Coast electronics association dedicated to growing the technology industry through government procurement opportunities and lobbying efforts.
	The Music Business Registry publishes five directories: the "A&R Registry," the "Music Publisher Registry," the "Music Business Attorney Registry" the "Film and Television Music Guide" and the "Record Producer and Recording Engineer Directory." For many in the business, these are indispensable reference works. The directories give everyone vital, accurate and the most up-to-date information they need to contact the entire A&R, music publishing, legal and film/TV music communities. They are the number one most-reliable source of information on "who's who" and "who does what" in the music business. Best of all, they can tell you where everybody is located.
	BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music. The non-profit-making company, founded in 1939, collects license fees on behalf of those American creators it represents, as well as thousands of creators from around the world who chose BMI for representation in the United States. The license fees BMI collects for the "public performances" of its repertoire of more than 6.5 million compositions - including radio airplay, broadcast and cable television carriage, Internet and live and recorded performances by all other users of music - are then distributed as royalties to the writers, composers and copyright holders it represents.
	We know that the reasons you attend conferences are to help establish your leadership position in the marketplace and network with your peers. A worthwhile conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. We help make sure that happens for you.
	Business Wire disseminates full-text news announcements from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide (our members) to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. With more than four decades of experience and leadership, Business Wire is a trusted source for journalists, investors, regulatory agencies, and communications professionals. In fact, Business Wire enables companies to fulfill the disclosure requirements in many countries, including the US, UK, Canada, France and Germany as well as reach financial audiences around the globe.

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