IMPALA ONE STEP AHEAD – FIRST REPORT ON PLAYLIST AND CURATION, WEBINAR 11 DECEMBER
The very first report of IMPALA’s new One Step Ahead project is out, and it’s all about playlists in the music streaming market, with a webinar on 11 December at 3pm CET for IMPALA members.
IMPALA’S SECOND WAVE COVID RECOMMENDATIONS
Nine months after the start of the Covid-19 crisis, with most of Europe at varying stages of second wave lockdown and gradual deconfinement expected, IMPALA’s Covid-19 Task Force has issued a new call for action.
MUSIC SUPPORTS TWO MILLION JOBS, CONTRIBUTES €81.9 BILLION ANNUALLY TO ECONOMY OF EU AND UK, STUDY FINDS
The music sector supports two million jobs and contributes €81.9 billion annually to the economy across the 27 EU Member States and the UK (EU28), according to The Economic Impact of Music in Europe, an in-depth study by Oxford Economics that was commissioned by IFPI.
IMPALA 20TH ANNIVERSARY
Today marks the official 20th anniversary of IMPALA, the European independent music companies association. From a handful of founding members, the European trade body has grown to represent over 5,000 independent music companies and national associations in 30 European countries.
IMPALA WELCOMES TOP-UP FOR CULTURE IN FUTURE EU BUDGET
Earlier today, EU institutions reached a preliminary political agreement on the future EU budget 2021-2027, ending months of deadlock.
If confirmed, the agreement represents very welcome news for the cultural sector, as Creative Europe – the only EU programme fully dedicated to culture – would see its budget increase to €2.2bn, up from the current €1.46bn for the 2014-2020 programme.
IMPALA & CMU TEAM UP TO KEEP INDEPENDENTS ONE STEP AHEAD IN THE DIGITAL MARKET
IMPALA has teamed up with music business consultancy CMU Insights to launch One Step Ahead, a new digital intelligence facility to enable independent music companies across Europe to navigate and identify trends, developments, challenges and opportunities in the digital music market.
OVER 100 ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR CULTURE TO BE AT THE CORE OF EUROPE’S RECOVERY PLANS
110 organisations from across the cultural and creative sector have published a joint call on the EU and its Members States to place culture at the core of each and every recovery plan.
IMPALA ADOPTS CHARTER TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT MUSIC SECTOR
IMPALA has adopted a Diversity and Inclusion Charter setting out a series of twelve commitments for the organisation, which it will report on annually.
JOINT SECTOR LETTER – SUPPORT FOR CULTURE IN THE RECOVERY & RESILIENCE FACILITY
Today, 21 organisations from across the cultural and creative sector wrote to members of the European Parliament to ask them to support a number of amendments tabled on the draft Report on a Recovery and Resilience Facility.
INVESTEU – ENSURING SUPPORT FOR CULTURAL AND CREATIVE BUSINESSES
Today, 26 organisations from across Europe’s cultural and creative sectors wrote to European Commissioners Thierry Breton (Internal Market) and Paolo Gentiloni (Economy) regarding the EU’s flagship investment programme InvestEU.