AP Touring: AP Touring is an Australian-owned entertainer bus company, providing bands and solo artists with their own personal home-away-from-home since 2014.

GYROStream: GYRO is the leading independent and Australian-owned digital music distribution and artist services company with a local touch and a global reach. Part of GYROgroup, GYRO offers a customer-focused distribution experience with premium support as its core offering. The company now has offices in Australia, USA, UK, Brazil, Philippines and India. GYROstream offers a range of features and additional artist services including royalty payment splits, publishing administration via GYROpublishing, sync pitching services and artist promotional services such as publicity, brand partnerships and marketing. Through the GYROgroup’s white-label distribution platform, DistroDirect and global artist services arm GROUP SPEED, GYRO is achieving recognition and success for independent artists and labels on a global scale.

Media Arts Lawyers: For over 20 years, Media Arts Lawyers has given practical and commercial legal advice to clients throughout the entertainment, media, and creative industries. Acting for high-profile talent and multinational companies alongside emerging and fledgling projects, we set the benchmark for creative strategic legal solutions – no matter the deal size. Our combined experience means that we have the skill, deep networks, lateral thinking, and foresight to achieve the best commercial outcomes for our clients.

PPCA: Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) is a non-profit copyright collecting society that provides blanket licences for the use of recorded music and video clips in Australia. Revenue generated from licensing is distributed to registered record labels and artists so they can continue to make music for all of us to enjoy. If your artists control the copyright in their recordings, or feature on recordings, make sure you have your PPCA details up to date! www.ppca.com.au

Sony Music Entertainment: At Sony Music Entertainment, we honor the creative journey. Our creators shape movements, culture, communities, even history. And we’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from establishing the first-ever music label to inventing the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time. Today, we work in more than 100 countries, supporting a diverse and distinctive roster of talented creators at every level and on every stage. Situated at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to emerging products and platforms, embrace new business models, and employ breakthrough tools—all to support the creative community’s experimentation, risk-taking, and growth.

SXSW Sydney: Join the best emerging and established talent from Australia and beyond at SXSW Sydney 2025, from October 13 to 19. This is an unmissable week for up-and-coming artists, industry professionals keen to unearth them, or music lovers who want to hear them first. SXSW Sydney’s mission is to help creative people to achieve their goals and to blend innovation, risk, beauty, and empathy to make the world a place where we all want to live. With even more ways to participate or attend SXSW Sydney this year, we hope to see you there.

Universal Music Australia: At Universal Music Group, we exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content. Featuring the most comprehensive catalogue of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Universal Music Australia (UMA) is a division of Universal Music Group (UMG), we are a community of entrepreneurs committed to artistry, creativity and innovation, UMA fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Our work extends beyond signing and developing domestic Australian artists, we also provide global promotion, distribution and a full suite of artist services and support. We have enjoyed great success over the last decade with our domestic artists. For more information visit Universal Music Australia website.