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Music Publishers Association Members Survey 2025

Annually, the MPA Board holds a meeting to review the organisation’s previous year's performance in line with its strategy, and agrees on the organisation's focus for the following year. This survey will help us to understand our members' current needs better, so we can respond through our service delivery. Please complete the questions below as best as you can to help inform our team's planning for 2026.

The survey has 32 questions, split into 7 sections:
- General Information
- Membership
- Events
- Policy
- Education
- DEI
- Communications
General Information Questions
1.Which company do you work for?
2.What is your current position within your company?
Membership Questions
3.Which MPA forums, groups and committees are you aware of? Please tick all that apply.
4.Are you a member of an MPA forum, group or committee? If no, and you would like to be considered for nomination in the future, please specify which one(s).
5.How often do you use the membership portal?
6.What do you use the members portal for? Please tick all that apply.
7.What additional resources would you find most beneficial?
8.How do you engage with the MPA team? Please tick all that apply.
9.Is there anything else you would like to mention in regards to MPA membership or your engagement with the MPA?
Events Questions
10.How many MPA events have you attended in the past year?
11.If you have attended MPA events in the past year, which events did you attend?
12.What type of MPA events do you typically attend? Please tick all that apply.
13.Which MPA events have you found most valuable and why?
14.What topics or themes would you like to see covered in future events? Please tick all that apply.
15.What time of the day do you prefer for events? Please tick all that apply.
16.What days of the week work best for you to attend events? Please tick all that apply.
17.What events format do you prefer? Please select one.
Policy Questions
18.Do you/ your company have good awareness and visibility of MPA policy positions within the wider UK music community?
19.Which areas of policy advocacy are most important to you/ your company? Please tick all that apply.
20.How regularly do you/ your company engage with the MPA's policy work and updates?
21.How do you typically hear about our advocacy work? Please tick all that apply.
22.Would you/ your company be interested in participating in advocacy efforts, e.g. signing letters, meeting with policymakers, public campaigns?
Education Questions
23.Have you or members of your team attended our Publishing Effect: A 101 of Music Publishing course?
24.Would you or members of your team be interested in an Intermediate or Masterclass of the Publishing Effect course?
25.Do you have any feedback on the pricing of our educational training courses?
26.Is there a specific area of music publishing education you would like a course on?
DEI Questions
27.Do you attend and/ or consider yourself a community representative for any of the 10 MPA Employee Networks? Please tick all that apply.
28.What would help you better engage with MPA’s DEI offering? Please tick all that apply.
29.Would you be interested in participating in any of the following next year? Please tick all that apply.
Communications Questions
30.Do you feel the MPA contacts you...
31.Do you read the MPA Members Newsletter?
32.How do you most interact with MPA communications? Please tick all that apply.