FIRST BANK OF ROCK IS THE FIRST CONTENT DRIVEN CONSUMER INTELLIGENCE NETWORK FOR ARTISTS AND THEIR PARTNERS, INCLUDING COMMERCIAL BRANDS, MERCHANDISE COMPANIES, BOOKING AGENTS, PROMOTERS, VENUES, MANAGERS AND RECORD LABELS.
BY UTILIZING AN INNOVATIVE AND UNIQUE TECHNOLOGY NETWORK, WE SOLVE THE THREE BIGGEST INEFFICIENCIES WITH THE CURRENT BUSINESS MODEL – CASH SHORTFALL ENABLING EMERGING ARTISTS TO TOUR WORLDWIDE, BESPOKE ARTIST-OWNED FAN ORIENTED DIGITAL CONTENT AND LACK OF DETAILED UNDERSTANDING OF WHO FANS ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE. FIRST BANK OF ROCK APPLIES A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY WHERE THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN APPLIED BEFORE TO ACCELERATE AND INCREASE REVENUE FOR ARTISTS AND THEIR PARTNERS.
Historically, record labels were to artists what venture capitalists were to technology start-ups. The common strategy is funding. Record labels sign up artists and acquire the rights to the songs, thus allowing the labels to exploit the artist’s Intellectual Property (IP) in exchange for royalties and advance payments.
The music and entertainment industry is rapidly changing. The most obvious change is that whilst digital download sales (including music streaming) have been burgeoning, physical music sales have been steadily dropping over recent years. This decline in physical sales has triggered a major shift in the industry, meaning that record label investment into new artists has decreased dramatically. The artists are therefore looking for alternative sources of funding, income and distribution through the internet and mobile devices, both of which are undoubtedly the communication channels of choice for the majority of music fans.
One of First Bank of Rock’s main priorities is to address the immediate need to invest in the growth of a new artist by offering financial tour support, meaning they are able to promote their music to their fans and stay in control of their own IP.
We are proud to announce that our first business partner is James Sandom of Red Light Management, who handles a stable of premiere league acts including The Vaccines, Franz Ferdinand and Zulu Winter, the first band to sign up with First Bank of Rock. Working closely with both managers and artists simultaneously will enable First Bank of Rock to create the first content driven customer intelligence network for artists and fans.
By financing the artist, First Bank of Rock allows them to concentrate on what they are good at – making music.
We apply the efficiencies of technology where they have never been applied before to accelerate and increase revenue for artists and their partners, including merchandise companies, booking agents, promoters, venues, managers, record labels. We provide to artists and their partners the most valuable insights, from audience engagement to content distribution performance metrics, we are able to measure, every click, every view, every piece of engagement, across all medias and platforms. By collating more and more detailed fan-base intelligence, First Bank of Rock will gain vital information in terms of who fans are and where they are, enabling new revenue streams to be explored.
Our unique technology network consists of an innovative mobile fan platform. For fans, this essentially means that they get a unique and exciting experience, and in return, First Bank of Rock receives detailed social graphing (the global mapping of everybody and how they are related) and big data analysis (an almost instant way of capturing, managing and processing previously unmanageable quantities of information). This enables the artist to build a close relationship with its core fan-base. As a result, the artist will increase their potential revenue (whether that is through merchandise, concerts, record or download sales) and get a more precise idea of who and where their fans are.
Being the first content driven and consumer intelligence network for artists, first bank of rock allows both artists and managers to maximize their potential revenue streams by addressing fans in the most engaging way.
Historically, record labels were to artists what venture capitalists were to technology start-ups. The common strategy is funding. Record labels sign up artists and acquire the rights to the songs, thus allowing the labels to exploit the artist’s Intellectual Property (IP) in exchange for royalties and advance payments.
The music and entertainment industry is rapidly changing. The most obvious change is that whilst digital download sales (including music streaming) have been burgeoning, physical music sales have been steadily dropping over recent years. This decline in physical sales has triggered a major shift in the industry, meaning that record label investment into new artists has decreased dramatically. The artists are therefore looking for alternative sources of funding, income and distribution through the internet and mobile devices, both of which are undoubtedly the communication channels of choice for the majority of music fans.
One of First Bank of Rock’s main priorities is to address the immediate need to invest in the growth of a new artist by offering financial tour support, meaning they are able to promote their music to their fans and stay in control of their own IP.
We are proud to announce that our first business partner is James Sandom of Red Light Management, who handles a stable of premiere league acts including The Vaccines, Franz Ferdinand and Zulu Winter, the first band to sign up with First Bank of Rock. Working closely with both managers and artists simultaneously will enable First Bank of Rock to create the first content driven customer intelligence network for artists and fans.
By financing the artist, First Bank of Rock allows them to concentrate on what they are good at – making music.
We apply the efficiencies of technology where they have never been applied before to accelerate and increase revenue for artists and their partners, including merchandise companies, booking agents, promoters, venues, managers, record labels. We provide to artists and their partners the most valuable insights, from audience engagement to content distribution performance metrics, we are able to measure, every click, every view, every piece of engagement, across all medias and platforms. By collating more and more detailed fan-base intelligence, First Bank of Rock will gain vital information in terms of who fans are and where they are, enabling new revenue streams to be explored.
Our unique technology network consists of an innovative mobile fan platform. For fans, this essentially means that they get a unique and exciting experience, and in return, First Bank of Rock receives detailed social graphing (the global mapping of everybody and how they are related) and big data analysis (an almost instant way of capturing, managing and processing previously unmanageable quantities of information). This enables the artist to build a close relationship with its core fan-base. As a result, the artist will increase their potential revenue (whether that is through merchandise, concerts, record or download sales) and get a more precise idea of who and where their fans are.
Being the first content driven and consumer intelligence network for artists, first bank of rock allows both artists and managers to maximize their potential revenue streams by addressing fans in the most engaging way.
Ronald Tetteroo
Having spent several years playing drums for the multi-million selling Hermes House Band, First Bank Of Rock co-founder Ronald Tetteroo came to the conclusion that his burgeoning interest in the worlds of business and technology was overtaking his original dream of pop stardom. A regular key-note speaker at high-profile business and technology conferences throughout the world, Ronald won the Technology Pioneer Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos and subsequently founded several technology companies, raised venture capital and has been actively involved in building businesses such as Watchfire (sold to IBM) and StreamServe (sold to Open Text). With almost two decades of IT industry experience under his belt, Ronald’s passion for technology and seemingly unquenchable thirst for finding new and innovative ways of working mark him out as one of the most creative business leaders currently operating within the music industry.
Dr. Adriaan Ligtenberg
First Bank Of Rock co-founder Adriaan Ligtenberg started his career working for Bell Labs. As head of the Image System Group, he played a key role in defining the JPEG and MPEG industry standards. He relocated to Silicon Valley, where he became a successful entrepreneur, first co-founding C-Cube Microsystems and later Storm Technology, both of which achieved successful initial public offerings. As a Senior Vice President at Cadence Design, he was a key part of the turn around team. Dr. Ligtenberg is involved in technology investments in the mobile broadband (4G) eco-system including: LTE infrastructure, mobile devices and applications and cloud computing. His passion is technology, innovation and entrepeneurship. He currently resides in both: Los Altos Hills, Silicon Valley and Kamakura, Japan. He has a PhD in Computer Science from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Toby Redshaw
With over 30 years of leading technology in change-intensive environments, Toby has contributed from both the business and CIO perspectives at an eclectic range of major companies such as FedEx, Motorola, American Express and Aviva. As CIO for American Express in New York and Aviva in London and in senior IT roles at Motorola and FedEx, Toby has led 10 000 strong IT teams and been responsible for multi-billion dollar budgets to deliver technological vision, strategy, roadmaps and execution, successfully yielding major improvements in output, quality, business impact, customer satisfaction and innovation. He was a key member of the team that transformed FedEx into a global company and helped to build the brand outside the USA. He was recently named as one of the 25 Most Influential IT Leaders by InfoWorld and one of the top 50 Global CIO’s by Information Week.
Ty Roberts
Widely recognized as one of the original inventors of enhanced CD technology, Ty is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern digital entertainment. He joined Gracenote in 1998, following the company’s acquisition of ION, a multimedia music technology firm he founded in the early 90s. He is currently working as Gracenote’s Chief Technology Strategist, overseeing the creation of products and services that leverage the power of the Gracenote database to deliver information services. During his time at ION, Ty was the company’s lead technologist, and was responsible for producing the music industry’s first multimedia enhanced audio CDs, which included titles by David Bowie and Brian Eno.
James Sandom
Like many major music business figures before him, James started his career as a musician before falling into artist management and joining the SuperVision Management Group a decade ago, when the company consisted of “two people in a shoebox.” Honoured as Music Week Manager Of The Year and MMF Manager Of The Year in 2006 and 2007, his impressive roster includes major league bands such as Franz Ferdinand, The Vaccines, Kaiser Chiefs, White Lies and Zulu Winter, who became the first group to sign on the dotted line with First Bank Of Rock.
Jonathan Wingate
Jonathan began his career as post boy for Virgin Records before eventually working his way up the music business ladder to become spokesman for David Bowie and Sir Bob Geldof, both of whom he represented for five years. He now works as a music journalist and broadcaster, and has written for a variety of publications including The Times, Daily Telegraph, Mojo and Rolling Stone. He has been lucky enough to interview many of his heroes ranging from Paul McCartney to Lou Reed and can regularly be heard putting the music world to rights on BBC television and radio.
Zulu Winter
Interview
Zulu Winter joined First Bank of Rock and got to work on their debut album 'Language' which was released in May 2012. In this early interview they talk about challenges, the writing process of the album and what they are passionate about. Working closely together they reveal how they are developing as a band and are excited to perform their material.
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FIRST BANK OF ROCK IS THE FIRST CONTENT DRIVEN CONSUMER INTELLIGENCE NETWORK FOR ARTISTS AND THEIR PARTNERS, INCLUDING COMMERCIAL BRANDS, MERCHANDISE COMPANIES, BOOKING AGENTS, PROMOTERS, VENUES, MANAGERS AND RECORD LABELS.
BY UTILIZING AN INNOVATIVE AND UNIQUE TECHNOLOGY NETWORK, WE SOLVE THE THREE BIGGEST INEFFICIENCIES WITH THE CURRENT BUSINESS MODEL – CASH SHORTFALL ENABLING EMERGING ARTISTS TO TOUR WORLDWIDE, BESPOKE ARTIST-OWNED FAN ORIENTED DIGITAL CONTENT AND LACK OF DETAILED UNDERSTANDING OF WHO FANS ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE. FIRST BANK OF ROCK APPLIES A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY WHERE THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN APPLIED BEFORE TO ACCELERATE AND INCREASE REVENUE FOR ARTISTS AND THEIR PARTNERS.