AKT Enterprises

After a very successful event last year, AKT Enterprises presented TEDxOrlando 2011 on November 5th. TEDxOrlando is committed to sharing, fostering and developing ideas that matter, and to building a local community where people who are passionate about ideas that matter can connect.

Thanks to everyone who made this amazing and very special day possible: our hard-working, excellent speakers; our fabulous and generous volunteers; our visionary sponsors; all the folks who pitched in out of the goodness of their hearts; and most of all, our wonderful attendees.

Full Sail’s Entertainment Business Program asked AKT’s Kevin Khandjian and Jared Mendelewicz to speak on artist management and merchandising. The two shared the history of AKT and how they jumped on the opportunity to tap into the Youtube demographic and became a household name to an entirely new marketplace.

Click here to read more about it on Full Sail’s “Minute 2 Minute” Campus blog!

The Independent Music Awards is an international program that honors top-ranked independent artists in 70 album, song, music video and design categories. This year, Studio AKT was nominated for an award for best music website for local artist Not Them! Studio AKT works hard on a daily basis to succeed in allowing customers’ ideas turn into reality.

The IMA’s receive submissions from over 70 countries on 6 continents, so to be in the top 5 total nominees is quite an honor in itself. In the past, popular artists such as Mark Hoppus, Zooey Deschanel, Keith Urban, and Ozzy Osbourne have all been judges of this program.

Not only is this nomination an honor, but it also allows for major exposure to artists, fans, and programmers. Winners will be announced in the spring, please vote for StudioAKT’s Not Them web site here.

Garment industry staple, Impressions Magazine, released a feature about Big Top, AKT’s first retail initiative, in its latest issue. The article breaks down the history of AKT, establishes the concept behind Big Top and discusses the company’s plans for the future.

Following the announcement of the eminent demise of the design community’s beloved Emptees.com, Rob Dobi and AKT Enterprises decided to team up to create Mintees.com.

As a courtesy to existing Emptees.com user’s, Mintees.com offers a migration tool to activate any users uploaded designs, comments, articles, feedback and threads on the Mintees.com platform.

Mintees.com is scheduled to officially launch its approximately one week before Emptees.com officially shuts down on March 1, 2011.

RIP Emptees.com

AKT Enterprises recently donated over 100 toys, games and educational books to the Marine Corps ‘Toys for Tots’ Foundation to help spread holiday cheer to the children of Orlando.

AKT has donated to Toys for Toys since 2008. Over the past two years, theyhave contributed over 300 toys to the organization and are contributing their largest donation ever this year, as the company has nearly tripled since its launch in 2005.

For more information on Toys for Tots, please visit www.toysfortots.org.

AKT Enterprises is proud to announce the launch of Smartpunk Live, Smartpunk.com’s brand-new web series. The series features exclusive performances, interviews and news from artists and bands, all recorded live from the Smartpunk Live studios in Orlando, FL.

The first Smartpunk Live episodes, which premiered today on smartpunklive.com, feature the bands Hey Monday and Saves the Day. Both bands give acoustic performances of fan-favorites from previous and upcoming releases, as well as in-depth interviews conducted by Anica and Rob, the Smartpunk Live hosts.

The series will continue to air regularly on www.smartpunklive.com.