A8

History and Devlopment-2008

2008年11月Acquired the Land Use Rights for a parcel of land situated at Lot No. T204-0111, Southern District of High-Technology Industry Park of Shenzhen.
2008年10月Granted as “National High Technology Enterprise” by Shenzhen Finance Bureau, Shenzhen Bureau of Science Technology & Information, Shenzhen Municipal Office of SAT and Shenzhen Local Tax Bureau.
2008年09月dentified as “Leading Culture Enterprises” and “The hub of Shenzhen culture industry of Shenzhen” by Shenzhen Municipal Culture Developing Bureau.
2008年06月A8 Music-original songs” Competition Awarding Ceremony and Original Artists Hands-in-Hands Sichuan Earthquake Relief Night was held at Poly Theater in Shenzhen.
2008年06月A8 Music successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, on 12 June 2008, under the stock code 00800.HK, with the subscription over 128 times.
2008年06月dentified as “Shenzhen Leading Enterprise for Independent Innovation” by Shenzhen Municipal Government.
2008年01月A8 Music joined 3 Hong Kong, the biggest 3G mobile telecommunication service operator in Hong Kong, to establish a 3G platform offering a multi-media network, and to launch the [China Original] channel on the platform.
2007年01月Together with the relevant government agencies, A8 Music initiated “China Original Music Base”, a strategic engineering project aimed at establishing an original music chain, which incorporates music production, music development, and digital publishing. In October, the “Yuan Sheng Fei Yang” original music competition was launched to create a “feast” of original Chinese music for 2007 and 2008. The same year，A8 music cooperated with Pepsi China to promote the theme song “I Lemon You” for the Pepsi brand, 7 Up, via the wireless network.
2006年01月In line with its strategy of continuous innovation, A8 Music launched the A8Box for a promotional period with its partner Dopod, which allows mobile phone subscribers to purchase music services directly from their mobile phones. The same year, songs for the TV plays “烈日炎炎”, "楚留香”, and the film “金头” were solicited via the A8 original products platform, and it cooperated with Beijing Pepsi Cola and China Mobile Group for the promotion of RBTs.
2005年01月The Award Ceremony for the Spring Session of Internet Chinese Idol 2005 was televised nationwide through Hunan Satellite TV in April. In May of the same year, A8 Music launched the Autumn Session of Internet Chinese Idol 2005. In December, the company held the Annual Award Ceremony for Internet Chinese Idol at Zhongshan Hall in Beijing. More than 200 major media reported on the entire Ceremony, which was rebroadcast through MTV and its cooperating TV stations.
2004年01月A8 Music worked with MTV, offering wireless value-added services for the channel’s various programs; it further widened its range of wireless music services by collaborating with international and domestic record labels, starting with EMI; A8 Music then sold the label’s music as RBTs through the wireless network of the China Mobile Group. It has since cooperated with other labels such as Warner Music Beijing, Sony BMG and Universal Music in many areas.To enhance its repertoire, it launched the A8 brand the same year and established its Internet UGC platform www.a8.com for artistes and users to upload their original, independently-produced songs.
2003年01月A8 Music started working with independent third parties to provide SMS interactive services to help promote the Pepsi brand in China.
2002年01月With their foresight and resourcefulness, the entrepreneurs expanded the Group’s services to include wireless value-added telecommunication services such as SMS voting capacity, in connection with high-visibility music events such as the “2002 CCTV-MTV Music Award Ceremony”, a program which attracted more than 15 million participants. The Group also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Phoenix TV, Anhui Satellite TV, and STAR TV.
2001年01月A8 Music cooperated with CMCC Guangdong Branch to pioneer the launch of ringtone download services; it teamed up with Hunan Satellite TV to offer an interactive service for “Happy Base Camp” on an exclusive basis, and worked with the “Chinese Music Awards Ceremony” program of Channel[V], which was a milestone in the development of the local music industry because it initiated an era where music could interact with mobile phones.
2000年01月A8 Music was founded by Liu Xiao Song in Shenzhen.