Justin Kniest

Founder, Market Me (Amsterdam)

Justin Kniest has been working in the live music industry since 1996 as a live entertainment event producer, music promotor of Dutch and international artists and as Managing Director of de Grote Prijs van Nederland and Paradiso-Melkweg Productionhouse.

In 2000, Justin founded the online concertchannel Fabchannel.com. Since then Fabchannel recorded over 1000 HD live concerts and put them on the web, live and on-demand. Fabchannel.com attracted tens of thousands music fans a day and got awarded with 7 international awards amongst which the Webby 2006 for best music website in the world.

In May 2009 Fabchannel had to stop its activities due to the reluctance of the major record labels to embrace Fabchannels' businessmodels that were based on advertising and subscription revenues.

In September 2009 Justin started online marketing agency Market Me (www.marketme.nl). Market Me is specialized in online branding, online video, website/platform development and cross media concepts.