Ō Mātou Hoa Patui
Thank you to our partners for their support.
Irirangi Te Motu | NZ On Air
Irirangi Te Motu | NZ On Air is an independent government funding agency that funds the recording and promotion of single songs and multi-song projects that reflect Aotearoa New Zealand and have the potential to reach both significant broadcast and online audiences. We do this by funding artists and musicians to professionally record and create content that resonates and engages with audiences. Alongside New Music Single and New Music Project funding streams, NZ On Air Music also offers Waiata Takitahi, New Music Pasifika, Pan Asian and Kids focused funding rounds.
Te Māngai Pāho
He hinonga reo Māori a Te Māngai Pāho e mahi ana i ngā rāngai o te ao pāpāho, matihiko, pae pāpori, reo irirangi Māori, waiata Māori hoki. Ko tā Te Māngai Pāho mahi, he whakatairanga i te reo Māori me te ahurea Māori mā te tautoko ā-pūtea nei i ngā kaiwaihanga me ngā kaiwhakarato i ngā kaupapa mō te reo me ngā tikanga. Kia whakaputahia ki ngā whakaminenga mā ngā pāhorau rerekē. Ko te whāinga matua o Te Māngai Pāho, ahakoa kei whea, ahakoa āwhea, ahakoa pēwhea, kōrerotia te reo Māori.
Te Māngai Pāho is a Māori language agency operating in the media, digital, broadcast, social media, iwi radio and music sectors. Our role is to promote Māori language and culture by funding creators and distributors of Māori language content and Māori cultural initiatives for distribution to audiences via a diverse range of platforms. Our aim is to see te reo Māori spoken and heard everywhere, every day and in every way.
Official Media Partner – RNZ
RNZ is New Zealand's independent public service multimedia organisation and has been telling New Zealanders’ stories, informing and entertaining them for nearly a century across broadcast radio and digital channels including rnz.co.nz, social media, podcast and video platforms. RNZ continues to showcase Aotearoa’s diverse music communities, broadcasting live and recorded music across genres, interviewing the people behind the music and covering festivals, awards and events. For rangatahi, award-winning podcast The TAHI covers new music twice a week, RNZ National’s flagship music programme Music 101 is the must listen music programme for music aficionados and RNZ Concert showcases fine music, kapa haka and more.
Presenting partner – Spotify
Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in 2008 and today, Spotify is the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with 515m users, including 210m subscribers in over 180 markets. On Spotify for Artists you can get discovered by millions of listeners, customise artist profiles, pitch an unreleased song to playlist editors, manage merch and concert integrations, get deep analytics and insights into music’s performance, and much more.
TVNZ+
TVNZ is New Zealand’s state-owned, commercially funded broadcaster. Our purpose is to inspire the conversations of Aotearoa, and enrich the lives of New Zealanders by sharing the moments that matter to our communities, regions and people. Each day, TVNZ reaches more than 2 million Kiwis through channels TVNZ 1, 2, DUKE and online entertainment platform, TVNZ+