Canadian Heritage committee  We're actually on the opposite side of it. I would say we do more for artists in music export than we do on helping them locally. Artists are usually pretty good at getting people in their area to know about them and at getting friends to come out to shows. The successful artis

Canadian Heritage committee  Of each other.

Canadian Heritage committee  The first recommendation I had was more so just a change, an update, on how the FACTOR and Musicaction collective initiative programs work. Right now the maximum per program application is essentially $50,000 that's matched by our company. We receive $50,000 from FACTOR, and we m

Canadian Heritage committee  One hundred per cent.

Canadian Heritage committee  Realistically we wouldn't be talking about a lot of companies per year. There are maybe three to five serious music platforms in Canada that are raising venture capital level money per year. So you are already going to weed out a lot of the smaller applications. Realistically you

Canadian Heritage committee  The thing to mention about apps is basically that they're only as effective as the user who wants to use the app and how engaged they get with the app. One of the questions we get often is from record labels that come to us and they want to put out a record label app that has all

Canadian Heritage committee  I would guess more the matchmaking part of it. It's hard, obviously. I've been lucky to the point where I've been able to call and email people who should never accept my email in any way, and they've taken 30 minutes out to sit down with me. I can honestly say that's probably

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely.

Canadian Heritage committee  One of the most valuable things that I've had starting companies or working in the music industry has really been the mentors and the people who have sort of done that business before. If the government was to try to work with a lot of these senior music industry people, senior

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting me to meet with your committee. First off, my name is Shawn Cooper, and I'm the president and co-founder of a company called Volu.me. We work with artists, and Canadian artists specifically, such as Hedley, Tegan and Sara, The Sheepdogs, and Sl