| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Music |
| Genre | Digital Distribution |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Website | valleyarm.com |
Valleyarm is a music industry company that specialises in digital distribution, publishing and online marketing of music and video content. The company’s head quarters is located in Melbourne, with offices in Berlin, Brisbane and New York[1] and partners based in China, Japan, Fiji, South Africa, England[2] and Jordan.
As being a digital distributor, Valleyarm works largely with independent musical artists and record labels to make content available online through various international digital music stores including iTunes, Nokia ,[3] Amazon MP3, Telstra Bigpond[4] and Chinese bilingual digital music store Wawawa.[5] For their digital distribution services, Valleyarm uses a flat-fee business model for its distribution, unique to the Asia-Pacific region.[6] On September 16 of 2010, it was announced that Valleyarm had been elected full APRA and AMCOS membership.[7]
As well as digital distribution, Valleyarm also represents some signed artists as a sub publisher to collect royalties and clear digital rights from publishing around the world.[8] The company also has several artists under their Supported-Managed model, in which selected artists get support similar to what record labels provide. Current artists include Taxiride’s Jason Singh and Jupiters Menace.
Valleyarm also offer a Digisingle product, which is an alternative to the CD single.[9] Notable Australian artists Skybombers[10] and Jason Singh[11] of Taxiride have both released Digisingles.
It has been noted that Valleyarm representatives attend some of the world biggest music conferences such as South by Southwest, Canadian Music Week,[12] Music Matters,[13] Face the Music,[14] Amsterdam Dance Event,[15] Tokyo International Music Market,[16] MIDEM and others, and are often invited as panelists and speakers. The company frequently puts together conference samplers and iTunes only compilations as well.
• Powderfinger
• Gotye
• Kisschasy
• Birds of Tokyo
• Clare Bowditch
• Paul Dempsey
• Stick To The Shallows
• Little Birdy
• Silverchair
• Kasey Chambers
• Beasts of Bourbon
• Seth Sentry
• Twelve Foot Ninja
• Peter Pan
• Liberation Records
• Major Label
• Possum Records
• iTunes
• eMusic
• Amazon MP3
• Vodafone
• Beatport
• Shazam
• HMV Digital