Report: Germany's Popkomm Facing 50 Per Cent Attendance Fall; Event Canceled
June 21, 2009, 15 years ago
Wolfgang Spahr from Billboard.biz is reporting:
Organizers of the Popkomm music fair and conference in Berlin have admitted that an anticipated 50 per cent fall in attendance meant the 2009 event, due to take place Sept. 16 to 18, was no longer viable this year.
Failure by the German government to tackle Internet piracy was also a singled out as a deep-rooted problem that contributed to the cancelation.
Billboard.biz exclusively revealed this morning (June 19) that the event was being canceled.
Speaking at a press conference this afternoon, Katja Gross, director Popkomm, said that kind of 50 per cent fall in delegates would not have been satisfactory for exhibitors. In 2008, the total attendance fell 20 per cent to 14,000. Gross didn't give any figures for exhibitor sales in 2009.
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