Membership Benefits

  • Jointly promote the idea of Internet radios to retailers and consumers
  • Developing the market for Internet radios and the sales of associated products
  • Influence the direction of the internet radio industry – be a part of it
  • Non-members will simply stand by and watch it happen!
  • Stay informed of market trends and future developments
  • Ensuring member’s products remain leading-edge and fully interoperable
  • Participation in committee and general assembly meetings
  • Early access to and ability to influence draft technical specifications
  • Profiles and standards
  • Opportunity to meet and network with other members
  • Meet with significant CE brands and key broadcasters and service partners
  • Understand common issues and requirements
  • Understand their various business models
  • Develop and implement joint promotional activities

Who Should Join?

Retailers

Radio Broadcasters

  • One stop shop for ensuring accurate and complete listings on all IMDA member products including knowledge base on IMDA member device capabilities and features
  • Access to device partners
  • Ensure full interoperability between broadcast and receiver
  • Opportunity to develop new business models specific to platform and device capabilities
  • Global forum across the value chain to develop next generation display of rich metadata and interaction around content
  • Opportunity for content providers and device makers to receive detailed statistics on content usage through IMDA member devices

Content Aggregators

Online Music Service Providers

Device Manufacturers and Technology Providers

  • IMDA technical committees: influence the standards and use them to improve your products use of technical standards for your product definition and development
  • IMDA marketing committees: participate in the IMDA promotional activities
  • Use IMDA trademarked product category names and descriptions promotion of your products
  • Certification/logo program: obtain IMDA certification & logo use for your products
  • provide assurance and a common understanding to retailers, broadcasters & content providers
  • Access to IMDA roadmap to see where the industry is going
  • Access to broadcast partners

 

The following descriptions cover the membership types IMDA has established:

FULL MEMBER  

Membership costs:  - $10K per annum

 This entitles you to:  

  • Participate in all IMDA activities
  • Participate in Technical Committee and Plenary meetings of the IMDA
  • Voting rights and opportunity to field a member for the Steering Committee
  • Delegate representatives and contribution to all Working Groups
  • Submit written motions to the IMDA Steering Committee to be dealt with at the next Plenary meeting
  • Receive information on the activities of the IMDA and their outcome and have access to all documents relating to such activities.
  • Right to display IMDA logo on end their end products following certification and formal approval from IMDA

 ASSOCIATE MEMBER

  • Membership costs:  –  $2K per annum

 This entitles you to:

  • Participate in Plenary meetings of the IMDA
  • Participate in all events organized by the IMDA
  • Submit written motions to the Steering Committee to be dealt with at the next Plenary meeting
  • Review and comment on technical specs prior to their adoption
  • Receive up-to-date information on the activities of the IMDA and their outcome
  • Right to display IMDA logo on end their end products following certification and formal approval from   IMDA

 Note: Associate Members are not entitled to:

  • Vote at meetings
  • Participate in Working Groups unless they are called upon by the Steering Board to do so in view of the substantial contribution expected from such representatives

 Process:

 Tell us you want to join and the level (Full or Associate)

  •  We will send you an invoice and enter you in the membership roles.
  •  Full and Associate Members will start to receive all information.
  •  As working groups are formed Full Members will be invited to participate.

Thank you for your interest in IMDA membership!

 

IMDA Antitrust Policy

IMDA members need to comply with all applicable U.S. Antitrust laws pertaining to their participation in IMDA and in any IMDA committee.   The IMDA Antitrust Guidelines can be viewed here.