** PLEASE NOTE **
This information is restricted to EPM distributed labels only.
LIMEWIRE
DJ charts aren’t really useful to Limewire and they try to keep all of their banner design in house. They only have banners when promoting a featured artist/label – so if there is a priority that you’d like to pitch, send it over for consideration to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
MYCLUBBINGSTORE
Link to the store : http://www.myclubbingstore.com
Link to the blog : http://www.myclubbingstore.com/blog
Link to our facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Clubbing-Store/80983388756?ref=ts
Link to our promotionnal banners : http://www.myclubbingstore.com/bannieres.html
If you would like to promote one of your artists (put him on highlight on our website, create a chart, …) , you can contact us here : http://www.myclubbingstore.com/contact.html
ADDICTECH
to fit their niche and production requirements. We specialize in
underground electronic sounds and shy away from anything that sounds
like "commercial trance" etc. Our main focus of attention is on IDM,
Electro, Dubstep, Breakbeat, Glitch Hop, Drum and Bass, Ambient,
Downtempo, Techno, etc. Our dedication to quality underground music
over the years shows in the almost cult like following that our
customers have. We have an extreme passion for what we do and look for
the finest in production standards.
We offer permanent features and targeted promotions for Exclusive
Releases. For music with a "broken beat" and bass there is no other
outlet that compares!
DJ DOWNLOAD
THUMBPLAY
www.thumbplay.com offer all kinds of services: a la carte downloads, download subscriptions, streaming subscriptions.
They offer downloads, wallpapers, ringtones.
At the moment they are only live in the US. But plans to expand are on the table.
Thumbplay is especially known for their streaming service ( Subscription fee : 9.99 USD).... as being the US version of Spotify. But they offer more than Spotify does.
They have a blackberry and an Android application. The Iphone will follow later this year.
They have a catalogue of more than 8 milion tracks.
Here are some ideas of what we’d like for our streaming service:
∙an album release one week before street date
∙an exclusive single
∙exclusive versions of songs recorded specifically for Thumbplay (acoustic or alternate versions)
∙a special Thumbplay recording session w/ the artist (like a Sessions@AOL)
∙exclusive interview tracks
∙contest
. a branding opportunity (Thumbplay placements on stage banners at shows, etc)
YOU TUBE
- it legalizes the use of the your catalogue in videos on YouTube;
- it gives us the opportunity to track all usage of your music on YouTube. YouTube automatically notifies us when an uploaded video contains music (or images) from one of our labels. All videos on YouTube are automically matched with the EPM catalogue using audio-fingerprinting.
- It gives us control over all usage of the EPM catalogue on YouTube. Whenever one of your tracks (or parts thereof) is used in a video on YouTube we are automically notified of the match. For all videos on YouTube containing EPM catalogue YouTube gives us the option to either allow the usage or to take down and disable the video (or only the sound parts).
- it allows us to share in the revenue created by YouTube with selling advertisements around and in the YouTube videos (and embedded YouTube videos) containing music or images of our labels.
Where Is The Best Place To Hear Music?
YouTube
has been shortlisted alongside five other fantastic music sites as The Best Place To Hear Music by the BT Digital Music Awards. So, if the thought of us in full awards garb making a hash of our acceptance speech appeals, head to the BT DMA site and get voting, as the winner will be decided by you, the Great British Public.Alongside us on the shortlist are BBC 6Music, Last.fm, MySpace, SoundCloud
and Spotify, so competition looks set to be fierce.Happily, the Digital Music Awards extend a little further than just music services and you can also make your mark on categories including Best Male, Best Female, Best Newcomer and Best Song.
TRAXSOURCE
Delivery tips to maximize your sales
Give your music every advantage by following these simple tips.
1- Deliver 1 Week before Release Date
This provides enough time to process and evaluate your release for featured positions on the home and genre landing pages. Last minute submissions are no longer eligible for featured/ priority placement until the following week.
2- Schedule Release Days for Mon, Tues, & Wed
To ensure your release ties in with our weekly site updates, be sure and schedule release days for Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.
3- High Quality Artwork
Your artwork matters! Don't skimp...if you have any questions about formats or options, please contact your label manager.
Marketing tips to promote your music & stimulate sales
Help us help you. Follow these simple tips to drive traffic and stimulate sales of your music on Traxsource.com
1- Submit DJ Top 10s in support of your releases.
Everyone knows, DJs rule. The bigger the name the better the results will be. Download TOP 10 Form HERE and submit them to your label managers.
2- Promote Your Releases with "ADD THIS" via Social Networks
Use the "Add This" function to share your music with the online world. Any page, release or label page can easily be posted on Twitter, Facebook, Orkut + 100 other social networks. Just look for the Orange and White X and choose the online medium you want to share pages with. Its very simple, and extremely effective.
3- Drive traffic from your Website and Email lists.
Drive core fans directly to your music on Traxsource.com with Direct links. This is the surest way to get higher sales and chart positions. Download our label marketing tools HERE for some useful Images and logos you can use on your Website, Blog, and email or wherever.
4- Submit Editorial/ News for your new Release
We're always looking for new and interesting stories to post up on our News Page (view news page here). If you have an interesting story or interview in support of your release or artist email Ryan Mishkin at
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. Be sure to tell us who what when why and where. The more info provided the better the chances of being featured.
AUDIOJELLY
Please submit feature banners ( 189 x 92) for all your releases to EPM at least 3 days before tracks/albums are released.
Please update top ten charts and add videos, images, etc.. at www.audiojelly.com/login <http://www.audiojelly.com/login> - artist passwords are available in your label admin under 'artist log in details'.
Follow us at www.twitter.com/audiojelly <http://www.twitter.com/audiojelly>
BUBBLE BEAT
At Bubblebeat, basically you have the "Easy Access" (Aquarium) with customized selection and the "Full access" with all music genres and for every style : TOP 50 / BB select (selection of the team).
Moreover you have the possibility to credit your account / Offer a credit to a friend or just a track ('by cliking on BB+ next to the track).
Download banners and logos via http://www.bubblebeat.com/fr/Goodies
We are planning to develop the Club Chart and Dj's Playlist for the next couple of months.
ZERO INCH
Label info page, artist profile and label profile as well as Editor's Picks that are chosen internally and run on the main page.
Here is a link to some of our promo tools to spread the word on the web:
MEETSOUND
Meetsound® launched a Facebook® application (http://www.facebook.com/meetsoundmusicstore) introducing a new way to discover music on the web via DJs's recommendations.
The application allows DJs, pros or amateurs, to share the quality of their selections with their social network and anyone to follow and download the music recommandations of his favorite DJs.
To request the Meetsound full presentation pdf document please email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
MFLOW
What is mflow
mflow lets you share the music you love with other people and get 20% of the price when they buy from your recommendation. See what your friends and favorite bands are recommending, what they're listening to and what's in their music collection. Get full length previews before you buy with absolutely no adverts. Listen, buy, share, discover and earn - all in one place.
Build up a community with similar customers and recommend your releases to earn credits. See this Zane Lowe voiced video to get a better idea of how mflow works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpclb9KKb4I&feature=player_embedded
We believe that music's better shared
We don't want to be told what we 'might like' by a software program.
We don't want to stare at an empty search bar... "a whole world of music at my fingertips, and I can't think of anything to look for..."
We don't want to have to subscribe to anything.
We don't want adverts.
We just want a way for our mates to send us the music they think rocks so we can listen properly before we choose what to buy.
BEATBOOST
A small introduction to the functions in the control-panel:
Settings
Editable Account,personal & Avatar settings and a link to go straight
to your profile (from there on he can edit his profile by hitting the
'edit my profile' button)
Promotion:
Adjustable promotion materials in the form of players and banners
Notifications:
Adjustable settings of the things (ie: new tracks, private messages,
comments etc.) you want to be notified on in the way you prefer.
PHONOMONKEY
Use the “free download” banner @ home page, you can use this banner to promote a label or artists, offering a free download of an artist dj/live mix, a label compilation, etc…
It will be supported with a label/artist feature (or questionarie) at the NEWS section + customer mailouts.
- Label Charts with a top 10 from your label
- DJ Charts that include 1 or 2 of your label’s tracks, one of which from the latest release you are hoping to promote
- Banner on your website/Myspace/Newsletter:
Labels can also submit their best of like this… http://www.phonomonkey.com/charts/best-of-dpress-industries/s10-les-r58/
NULOOP
French based store Nuloop select their choices internally.
The three main areas for promo are:
1 – The Nuloop player :
The code for installing Nuloop player can generated straight on labels pages.
Check the right column on this example page <http://www.nuloop.com/en/mp3/discography/label/Vintage+Records/1397/> . You can setup how you want to sort track (random or ordered) etc..
This player is fast, customizable, automatically updated with new releases and holds a direct link to the label’s page.
Please forward this tips to labels to place it on their myspace, blog website etc…
2 – Banners on nuloop :
We offer free on our pages to boost sales. Here’s some stats about us :
- 4 500 à 6 000 unique visitors a day.
- 125 000 absolute visitors per month.
- 1 500 000 pages a month (excl. Search engines).
- 52,89% of new visits a month : proof of constant new customers incoming.
Banner technical informations :
Size : 468x60 pixels
Weight : 70 ko Max
Type :
Fixed : gif, png, jpg
Animated : gif, swf
Links : Handled by ourself except for swf files (contact us).
Place of banner on pages :
Top of pages
Possibility to filter by language : French or English.
We can imagine focuses on a label or on a release.
Send ready to use banner by email to
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3 – Content for emailing :
We will launch soon a dedicated mp3 emailing to focus on newies, artists, labels etc..
Any content material welcome : texts, biographies, pictures…
WHAT PEOPLE PLAY
Everybody can create a player themselves.
Pretty easy to do: http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/wpplayer/
Podcasts - if it is interesting for us we will do it.
here are some artists we have featured in the past:
http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/podcast/
if the artist has a certain degree of popularity and we get a new release exclusively he could do an artist podcast for us.
Our podcast is very popular and listed in the Top50 podcast chart on iTunes.
Or he could do an interview for the podcast (telephone interview) accompanying the release.
Charts (with releases available in our shop) are always welcome. If have attached a chart submission form for you.
And finally there is "3 Things People Play" http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/news_events/category/13
Therefore we’d like to have a selection of 3 tracks or/and albums from our catalog (www.whatpeopleplay.com <http://www.whatpeopleplay.com> ). We need 3 titles from you with a few short sentences that describe why you selected these gems (http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/?redirect=/news_events/detail/1917).
If we get an exclusive release we might advertise it on one of our banners on Resident Advisor, Ibiza Voice, Little White Earbuds, XLR8R or 365Mag. Or if we are really into it we could select it for the Ibiza Voice Music Box (http://www.ibiza-voice.com/story/news/2264).
Front page banners involve an artist picture at 380x276, with a transparent label logo if you have it.
Charts and feedback can also be published on the site along side your release.
We have listed some information about what we can do for you and what we need from your side to make things going…
Whatpeopleplay Charts
To submit a chart for Whatpeopleplay the titles can only be selected from our website! Only one title, not a whole release! You can also check the Pre-Sales for upcoming releases: www.whatpeopleplay.com/genres/null/id/all/context/preorders
Please fill in the list below with the tracks you/your artists like and send it via mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Thanks for your support!
Your Name / Name of Chart:
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Release Information:
The earlier you deliver the release the better! It takes time to implement it and it will gain some pre-orders, as we can put tracks online prior the release date. Users can listen and bookmark it to get notified when it is ready for actual purchase. Besides that we often have external advertisement which needs to be planned in advance earlier than 1 week before release date.
Please submit the following things:
- Label biography plus label logo square cut: minimum 180x180 pixel, 72dpi.jpg
- Artist biography of your artists plus square cut artist pictures: minimum 600x600 pixel, 72dpi.jpg
- Banners for new releases on our site including artist picture and label logo
Small Banner: 180x80 pixel, 72dpi.jpg
Big Banner: 380x276 pixel, 72dpi.jpg
- Release Information Text and Press-/DJ Feedback
Install The Whatpeopleplayer:
To help us push sales of your tracks here is a description on how to install our Player on your site and on Facebook:
www.whatpeopleplay.com/wpplayer/
create a player for MySpace or your website…http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/facebookplayer
the Whatpeopleplay Facebook Player…
Follow Us:Send us an invite to your Facebook Group or Fan Site!
Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/whatpeopleplaycom/31534296522
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/whatpeopleplay
Follow us on MySpace: www.myspace.com/whatpeopleplay
Follow us on SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/whatpeopleplay
Follow us on PlayFM www.play.fm/profile/1003052
Follow us on Fairtilizer www.fairtilizer.com/users/whatpeopleplay
That’s Whatpeopleplay Podcast:
With the Whatpeopleplay Radioshow moderated by Rog How we present our bi-weekly music selection and exclusive interviews to a steadily growing crowd of subscribers. In addition to that, every second week we have the exclusive That’s Whatpeopleplay podcast plus interview that is compiled and recorded by one artist featured on Whatpeopleplay.com.
You may find our podcast here: www.whatpeopleplay.com/podcast/
Three Things People Play:
To promote new releases on our Website we are looking forward to getting your artists’ charts and contributions for our column “3 Things People Play”.
Therfore we’d like to have your artists’ selection of 3 tracks or/and albums from our catalog on www.whatpeopleplay.com that they like and can say a few words about.
Please don’t use standard phrases like („Classic, Nuff said“ „Full support“…) as we are not looking for DJ feedback!
We need 3 titles from you with a few sentences that describe WHY you selected these gems and WHY these titles really matter from your point of view. This is how it is done: www.whatpeopleplay.com/news_events/detail/1917
3 Things People Play: www.whatpeopleplay.com/news_events/category/13
How We Did It
You simply describe the production process or the recording session of one of your own releases. Pick out 3 tracks and tell the world all the details…how, why, etc… whatever you had in mind. http://www.whatpeopleplay.com/news_events/category/20
That’s My Label
For a short introduction of your label on Whatpeopleplay please deliver us the following information that we will put online in our News-Section!
That's my name, birth and location:
That's my artist roster:
That's how it all started:
That's my favorite venue:
That's my schedule:
That's my label in 3 years:
That's somebody to watch:
Please submit the information for this column to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
BOOMKAT
Boomkat are a very selective store who cherry pick labels and releases to fit their niche and discerning electronic/leftfield and dancefloor clientel. Often getting your label onto the store is already a sign of a quality label that has appeal to its members. Every week Boomkat also runs 10 rotating banners on the front page, however, this are purely at their own choice.
Boomkat's sister store '14 Tracks' http://14tracks.com puts together a well thought out compilation every week that revolves around either an artist 'eg: 14 productions or remixes from Redshape' to a visionary label 'eg 14 classic house tracks from DJ International' or a topical style such as dubstep, alt-rock or minimal wave. The series is highly regarded and also compiled by Boomkat's in house team. If you have a suggestion that we could put forward to them, please email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
TRACKITDOWN
- Top 10 charts Trackitdown. Pretty straight forward but this is the 2nd most popular way for our customers to shop on Trackitdown, second only to the ‘Featured Section’ which is where we highlight all the key and best releases. All the artist needs to do is pick 9 live tracks off the site and add the new release that we are promoting to the top. Fire over the list to me with a square artist image and we publish it on site. Then, so long as the artist is A-List we use the new release and the chart in our Monday mailout that now goes out to over 150,000, which on the day of release is obviously a massive PR tool! Newsletters look like this... http://www.trackitdown.net/newsletter/2008-11-24/e-flyer.html
- Sample Pack section where they sell production samples packages that you make up. See a list here of what is available so far: http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/sample_packs/search_A.html
- Player you can create for your sites. They can set up a direct ink to your label so the url would be www.trackitdown.net/yourlabel
- Spec is below and please email
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for an overlay that needs to go on top too. We host these free of charge if the label can supply them
· Dimensions: 816x105px with overlay on top
· Format: Flash or animated gif
· Linking to either track page or label page
· Link target should be “_parent” for Flash banners. - Front Page Feature: We host short Q & A sessions with the artist to publish on the front page along with an artist image, obviously we would link to the release and to the artist page on TID at the bottom of the interview therefore driving traffic directly to the product.
- Remix Competition / Sample Pack: We like to host remix competition’s as often as possible. We would then sell the parts of the track on the site for around £2.50 in a bundle that would also include the full track which, as well as selling more music, adds revenue for labels too. We would discuss a deadline and advertise accordingly and forward any entries to the labels for consideration. As part of this package we would also ask the artist to provide us with an artist ‘Sample Pack’ of around 150 samples from their hard-drive that we could sell for £14.99 alongside the new album and to drive customers towards the remix competition. The label return on this is £5.70 per unit. We have recently run a competition with Christian Fischer on the back of his ‘Bryzant Games’ album and have had a very positive response! Here is a link to the Christian Fischer project as an example : http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/sample_packs/track/727584.html With regards to a prize for the winning entry, the standard deal is that the winning remix gets a release on the hosting label.
- HTML Codes for Myspace: Once we have a release, sample pack or a chart, we can supply the label with HTML codes for both that can be pasted into a Myspace to create a ‘sticker’ that visitors can click on to be directed straight to the release, or the chart, on TID.
- Facebook App: The Trackitdown Facebook application allows you to publish your 'Public Playlist'
to your profile and pages as well as post tracks to friends profiles and send
tracks as part of Facebook messages.
This user guide is designed to help you add the application to your Facebook
account and exploit the full potential of it's features. Each step is detailed below
with images and video to help guide you through the process.
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DIGITAL TUNES
- Create a profile. Create a profile to use when creating news articles on the store by registering at https://www.digital!tunes.net/users/register. You can edit your profile when logged in from http://www.digital!tunes.net/user_profile/.
- Submit news article. Submit a news article on a forthcoming release, an artist/label profile, or anything you can think of by creating it at http://www.digital!tunes.net/news_articles/new. We will moderate your articles and request changes as necessary. When the news article is published it will be listed at http://www.digital!tunes.net/news_articles/, and when the section is launched from Beta also on the front page.
- Front page picks. To request a release be featured on the front page picks please email info@digital!tunes.net, together with some information on the release. We can't promise to feature every release, but we will do our best!
- Mini!stores. All labels on www.digital!tunes.net will automatically have a branded mini!store generated for them. For example label Metalheadz has a mini!store at http://metalheadz.digital!tunes.net/, and Compost Records has a mini!store at http://compostrecords.digital!tunes.net/. The mini!store subdomain is constructed by converting the label name to lower case, and removing spaces. Logos for labels are retrieved from Discogs automatically each night, but if you wish to supply your own, please email it to manual!updates@digital!tunes.net.
- Banners. Current banners can be found at: http://www.digital!tunes.net/banner/banner1.gif / http://www.digital!tunes.net/banner/banner2.gif
- If you haven't already heard, we've recently launched the Digital-Tunes mobile store at http://m.digital-tunes.net . This gives our customers easy access to all the tracks on the store right on their favourite mobile device.
Have a look at the screencast at http://vimeo.com/12178544 for a quick overview of the main features of the mobile site, as seen on an iPhone. But it doesn't just work on iPhone, it should work on the majority of mobile devices, including Android phones and all phones using WebKit based browsers. The standard Nokia mobile browser seems to be working nicely also.
STOMPY
Here are a few marketing ideas which we currently use, but we are always willing to think outside the box for other promotions:
- EP spotlights: this is the most effective way of promoting within our site, as the spotlight can be viewed from every page on the site so it attracts more attention. The standard price is $50 for 30,000 views, or $75 for 60,000 views. However, we are always willing to trade free spotlights for specialized promotion, such as a dedicated email blast announcing the content on Stompy from the label or for Stompy logos and sponsorship on event flyers.
- Label spotlights: Just like above, but the spotlight takes their user to their label profile page, where all releases are listed.
- Charts: As one of the most heavily viewed pages on the site, it helps promote the artists and the label. If any would like to participate, simply send a list of 10 tracks from the site along with a picture and we'll sort it out and add it to the Charts section. Please email your charts to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
- Exclusive Pre-Release: For content where we receive the EP exclusively for a period of time, we will offer it at a premium price ($2.99 .mp3/$3.49 wav), give it a free spotlight, and guarantee front page placement.
- Label/Stompy banners for web: Make a label banner that includes the label logo and Stompy logo which links to the releases on Stompy, used for Myspace and message board posts and advertising
- Artwork dimensions: logo profile image for label pages = 523 pixels wide x 75 pixels high / spotlight dimensions = 176 pixels wide X 106 pixels high
- Banner Spec - 176*106
- Charts - submit to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- SHARE FEATURE* new September 2010
Our biggest update (and longest one coming) has been the implementation of our 'Share' feature to easily access links and share with the world.
* All of the following can be shared (look for the share button):
- Releases
- Charts
- Label Pages
- Featured Artists
- Featured Labels
- DJ Mixes
Besides the standard Copy and Email links, we've also added some special features to the tool to get the most out of your promotions:
-Using the Facebook feature or Copying and pasting the link in Facbook Status Updates will automatically generate the thumbnail and add a web player with your label logo embedded in Facebook. A play icon is added and your Fans can listen directly from your post to preview.
Below is an example of the player that is embedded with your Facebook posts. This way people don't have to leave Facebook to get a listen to your music. You can also check out our Facebook Page for more examples.
-We also added a Player Link, which is a direct link to just your player loaded with the music you want to share for instant access.
-Share directly with Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter
-Copy and paste the HTML code for HTML sites
-Pre-formatted text for popular message boards, which will display title and artist name, as well as quick info of the previous three releases, and a link to a player to listen to while they read. If you have other suggestions for future sites to add, please let us know!* Some of our Favorites Sites to use Copy/Paste Post Feature:
RHAPSODY
Play.rhapsody.com/artistname/albumname – to stream the album
Mp3.rhapsody.com/artistname/albumname – to purchase the album
For more info, look here: http://learn.rhapsody.com/?src=rcom_navtop
Also, you can use this tool to link to Rhapsody for each album: http://www.rhapsody.com/rhaplinkTool
For some Rhapsody logos which you can use on your promo site please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
For more info, look here: http://learn.rhapsody.com/?src=rcom_navtop
DJSHOP
LINKS TO STORES:
http://www.djshop.de
http://www.djshop.ch
http://www.dj-shop.at
http://www.vinyl-distribution.nl
http://www.vinyl-distribution.co.uk
For each franchise shop you´ll find a mp3-player generator:
http://www.djshop.de/player
http://www.djshop.ch /player
http://www.dj-shop.at /player
http://www.vinyl-distribution.nl /player
http://www.vinyl-distribution.co.uk/player
For promotion for your products you can place banner ads on our download portal Djshop for free. Therefore we need the completed banner in format JPG and in the size 700x204 px
If you would like some DJ Shop banners for your site/myspace please email
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AKUMA
- 1. articles
- 2. banners
- 3. videos
- 4. free-downloads
- 5. podcasts
They have two music journalists who produce articles about artists, albums and labels on a regular basis. These contents are listed in the magazine and on the respective album page, later in their newsletter. If you have corresponding texts, you may send them to me in order to have them published on akuma more quickly. You can send me any information (your own reviews, interviews, pics.) about your artists/album.
2. Banners
The navigation bar is integrated into and visible on all pages. It contains four banner spaces. Banners are displayed in rotation and are exchanged regularly. Their own banner system operates the banners. In these areas, the labels may prominently place their select songs and other content, thereby specially promoting them. You may deliver to us banners for albums, artists or labels. The respective album, artist or label page on akuma will be used as target URL.
At a glance:
Banners on akuma
Size: 235 x 120 pixels (width x height)
Formats: GIF, JPG, PNG, Flash
3. Videos
On the akuma homepage you can find the video tool, called akuma tv, which shows five music videos as promo. They do not sell these videos. They are a kind of sales promotion. They are in the fileformat "flash", which is very secure and it is not possible to rip the videos.
Have a look here: http://www.akuma.de/
Akuma tv is a tool to arouse interest and not only hear music but also to see it. It is important for us to give the user who loves music the opportunity to discover music in more ways then the usual ones. They don't want to do all the usual things that other portals do. I mean, the user can watch a lot of musicvideos at youtube but there he don't have the opportunity to buy the music. They do have this service. This is a quite good combination and this service is unique in Germany!
They show 5 videos in a rotation on akuma tv. They change the videos every week - so that they have one new release per week or more. Please send videos, if you have, in the file format VOB or MPEG.
4. Free-Downloads
An other promotion tool is the "Free-MP3 download". The user gets a free download after registering as a user. If you have any tracks that you can handle like a "give away" then send me the mp3s and they will release it. Here you also have the opportunity to limit the downloads if you like. This Free-MP3 concept is not new, they use it like a chance for the user to discover new music. If a user gets music for free, then he will hear it and perhaps - in the second step - he will buy an album. You can see the first selection here:
If you like they can create a promotion-flyer which includes informations about this free-download(artist/label/album). This flyer will be added to the download, so that every user who has the mp3 will have the promotion info.
5. Podcasts
They will release a podcast on akuma every 6-8 weeks. The two akuma journalists talk about new releases and interesting topics like a music radio show. If you like you can send any interview-recording and they can use it in their podcast.
BEATS DIGITAL
- They have a 'player' you can get for your sites at: http://www.beatsplayer.com/
- To request the 8 page BeatsDigital Promotion Tools pdf please email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- Direct Link to your Label Page. Setting up a direct link for your label like www.beatsdigital.com/yourlabel makes it easier for you to bring people to your catalogue on BeatsDigital, whether you are promoting on the web or in print. If you do not find your label like this and you have releases on the store let me know and I will ask Beats Digital about getting it set up.
- Banners and Logos. You can find a selection of banners and logos for your use at http://www.beatsdigital.com/banners . If you'd like us to create a bespoke banner or logo with colours of your choice to fit better with your site or MySpace pages, then just let us know, and we can sort one out for you in an instant! If you’re not a web expert and are unsure how to add the HTML needed to link a banner to your tunes, we’ll be happy to help you.
BEATPORT
Beatport Player generator:
Beatport's banner generator creates dynamic web banners. These banners take seconds to create, are customizable, and automatically update with your new releases making them perfect for any web promotion.
<http://cl.exct.net/?qs=7e8b6368dba7ae2a47cc8049cab1dabd1c27675769d7af420a934060d679869a> Get started here - http://promote.beatport.com <http://promote.beatport.com/> <http://cl.exct.net/?qs=7e8b6368dba7ae2a47cc8049cab1dabd1c27675769d7af420a934060d679869a>
Step 1. Select a Label or Artist to promote
Step 2. Choose one of four color schemes
Step 3. Choose from the eleven different banner sizes. Then receive the code to embed for your website, Myspace, Facebook, email signature, or online newsletters.
Beatport player:
Simply go to www.beatportplayer.com <http://cl.exct.net/?qs=a6bd9598d55af4b4aa3bfd2d9b11bd07229aec0d8ba9260bdce03778134b6dc0> , enter the info regarding your release or artist you want to promote then copy the coding provided into your settings area.
Tips on getting the best out of Beatport:
- Publish charts by your bigger artists on a regular basis, this has proven to be a easy but very effective tool!
- You can create a Beatport player for inclusion on any myspace or website at www.beatportplayer.com <http://www.beatportplayer.com/> it’s a simple process the site is very intuitive
- Any bigger release announcements, interviews, videos, etc. can be submitted to Beatportal via the “submit content” feature currently located in the navigation on the left of www.beatportal.com <http://www.beatportal.com/> – Just let us know what you have.
- Use direct links for releases, artists, or label in newsletters and announcements on your web pages > ask us to generate these for you!
- Think about offering a release (or just one track or remix within a release) as an exclusive; it will then be especially tagged and thus get more attention, and last but not least generate more revenue per release.
- Please do not submit banners to Beatport. if they select your release, they will generate their own banner.
Beatport Label and Artist pages:
Label page: Images must be exactly 592x96
Artist page: Images must be exactly 590x405
* Create a Beatport Player for you website or Myspace
* Forum for new releases and features at: www.beatportal.com
Post any news on your releases, label tours, etc try and get into the habit of submitting to Beatportel.
Beatportal Information
Beatportal – Label Opportunities
There are many ways that record labels can use Beatport’s new community site Beatportal.com to promote your label and content. You can upload your own content to Beatportal including press releases, news stories, club events, videos, podcasts and more.
Submit News Story
Use this section to upload news about anything electronic music related, including information on your label, its releases and interviews with artists. The more unique and exclusive the content the more likely it will be featured (appear on the homepage).
Submit Music Video
If you have any music videos use Beatportal to break them. Videos that coincide with a release on Beatport are great promotional tools.
Submit Radio Show
If your label or any of your artists have online radio shows, upload information and links.
Submit Podcast
If your label or any of your artists have podcasts, upload tracklists and podcast feeds.
Other editorial opportunities
As well as user-generated content, Beatportal has an editorial team producing daily content across the site, including news, interviews, music reviews, and blogs.
News
We will be doing artist interviews, label profiles, track previews, video interviews, industry news and much more.
Music
The 20 Each month, Beatportal highlights the 20 best releases on Beatport by releasing The 20 chart, which includes reviews of each release. Getting your release into The 20 is great promotion.
Music Reviews Beatportal’s music reviews are written by specialist freelancers who pick and review releases on Beatport.
Events
Beatportal has a significant events section to highlight club events and parties around the world. You will soon be able to submit events to this section.
My Beatport
How increasing "My Beatport" followers can impact sales
Did you know that the "My Beatport" feature allows Beatport customers to follow your label and artists? With one click of the 'View Latest Tracks' button, your most loyal fans are presented a custom view into the Beatport music catalog, spotlighting your latest tracks and releases. Encouraging your fans to use "My Beatport" is one of the best advertising tools available to you since it is a navigation fixture on Beatport.com that's unique to each user. It provides highly targeted and direct traffic, touches every step of a customer's shopping experience, and reaches far beyond most traditional online marketing of your Beatport catalog.
How your fans can follow your music using "My Beatport":
Once logged in a Beatport customer can access and locate their "My Beatport" section in the lower left-hand corner of their screen.
There are various ways a fan can follow your music using "My Beatport". One way is by clicking the "Add to My Artists" or "Add to My Labels" button from any label, artist or release page.
Another way is by clicking the "+" button in the upper left-hand corner found beneath the Beatport search bar.
Want to learn more? See their tutorial for more details. https://knowledgebase.beatport.com/kb/article/000013?utm_campaign=
iTUNES
Create an account with iTunes. (see info attached)
Also check: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it6-2.html
1/ Create a folder in your 'Playlists' call it whatever you like.
Drag your tracks you want in your iMix from the iTunes store into the folder you have created (you won't be downloading them so you won't be charged for the tracks). They will appear in the folder you have created. Click on the folder in your playlist, then go to 'File' menu and select 'Create iMix'. That is it.
You will be asked for your username and password for your iMix to be submitted to iTunes.
Linkmaker
To get an iTunes button for yoru website that will link directly to a certain artist / release / track on iTunes. You can also select which iTunes territory you want the button to link to. Check: http://www.apple.com/itunes/linkmaker/
JUNODOWNLOAD
- Banners for use on your sites to let you know where they can buy your music. www.juno.co.uk/juno-images/
- Create a chart for publish on the JunoDownload store, check: http://www.junodownload.com/help/my-charts/
- Get a Junodownlod 'player' for your website, check: http://www.junodownload.com/design-your-juno-player/
We have a selection of unique tools ready for you to enhance your release campaign and increase your digital sales. These include:
- URL Links
- Juno Player Code
- Buy Buttons and Banners
- Social Networks Share links for Banner: Juno is 180pixels x 108pixel
Junoplayer
www.juno.co.uk/juno-images/ <http:// <http:///> www.juno.co.uk/juno-images/>
http://www.junodownload.com/design-your-juno-player/
Info on how Juno decide on who is featured and who is not:
The rank is determined by sales strictly speaking, however we take in to consideration other factors, including:
- Review in national/international publication
- Review in well renowned internet magazine/blog
- Remix produced by a big artist (artists rank also based on sales)
- Appears in 3 or more DJ Charts (DJ Charts must be submitted by recognized Artists/DJs)
- Failed searches (when a user searches for a title before its release and the search returns a blank we record this as a failed search, a substantial number of these for the same title could result in a feature)
Because Juno sell both physical and digital releases they have two back end systems that they use to determine sales rank, this is then cross referenced with other data like the output of the label, obviously a label churning out a substantial number of poor releases will still feature quite high in an overall sales rank, due to quantity not quality. It is therefore impossible for me to give you a break down of our top selling labels.
From Juno: We have a substantial amount of demand now for frontpage features and we have had to restrict coverage on the front page to our top 1000 labels. I am more than happy for you to fire over any request and I will determine their feature-ability on a label by label and title by title basis.
Post to Facebook in just one click!
Finally, a player for Facebook that's easy to post! We're super pleased to be the first dance music download site to launch a Facebook player that takes just one click to post to your profile. Now, if you post a release on Juno Download to your Facebook profile, we will automatically embed a new-look Juno player with enhanced features straight on to your page!
Enhance your page and engage your fans...
Features include:
- New enhanced design
- One-click post
- Full waveform view
- Skip/scroll tracklist
- Cover art
- Volume/mute control
- Buy link to Juno
How to post your player in one click
If you're already logged into Facebook it just takes one click to post a player on to your page or profile. There are two ways to post your player:
1) Use "SHARE" button on Juno Download
- Find your release on Juno Download
- Move mouse over "SHARE" button in the top right corner of the page
- Select Facebook
2) Paste link into your profile
- Copy the Juno Download URL
- Paste it directly onto your Facebook page
- Click "SHARE"
PEOPLE'S MUSIC STORE
- Set up a store. Setting up a basic store is very quick and easy but the more interesting stores require more time - we understand the lack of resource labels have and are happy to offer direct support and help for anyone who wants to create a store. Stores can include artist bio's and information on releases etc and video promo's can also be embedded, see ( http://peoplesmusicstore.com/rose_is_a_rose ) as an example. Good examples of stores include:-
- Label pages: http://peoplesmusicstore.com/warmdata / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/scyllarecords / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/machine-records / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/riserecordings
- Fan pages: http://peoplesmusicstore.com/dynamicmonkey / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/walpod / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/auntsallys / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/guitarbar / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/alartificiallife
- Tell their mailing list. Encouraging fans to also set up stores will snowball the effect. Running competitions, offering prizes and exclusives are a great incentive and nice added value for the time fans will take to promote their favourite artists.
- We don't offer any banner advertising on the site at the moment and the sites that are featured on the front of the site are entirely metric based, but these metrics are easy to influence because they are pulled from recently updated and most popular stores, once you have your mailing list onboard and on the site stocking their stores, this should be easy to get the labels releases on the front of site.
You'll find below a basic information page with all the sections of Bubblebeat, basically the "Easy Access" (Aquarium) with customized selection and the "Full access" with all music genres and for every style : TOP 50 / BB select (selection of the team). Moreover you have the possibility to credit your account / Offer a credit to a friend or just a track ('by cliking on BB+ next to the track).
Concerning logos and banners, you can downloaded this via http://www.bubblebeat.com/fr/Goodies
NULOOP
Born in 2000 from the meeting of music and computers enthusiasts, Nuloop.com already goes through lots of improvement since it its initial creation.
Located in northern France (Roubaix), Nuloop is in the heart of many musical influences to propose its customers a quality and innovative musical selection. Originally only dedicated to dance floor vinyl records, the website already goes through lots of improvement since it its initial creation to meet Dj’s needs and now proposes CD, DVD and more recently mp3 downloads. Nuloop.com also holds gear stuff on dj equipment, home studio and public address. We’re now recognized as one of the well known platform in deejay’s universe and the only one proposing such a large catalog !
Here’s some physical catalog stats :
- 58 000 vinyl records online.
- 9 000 equipment products.
- 800 orders a week.
- 53 000 customers database around the world.
French government just passed a law against illegal file sharing and antipiracy. Learn more here . Nobody knows what effects it will have but it might help digital market to rise in France…
Nuloop now have one (small) year experience in the digital market as Nuloop mp3 was launched in March 2008. Our digital catalog is now attractive, composed of big labels and smaller ones. We decided to improve the digital part of Nuloop with more communication to become on the French fine digital music providers. In this idea, we’re asking aggregators/distributors to help us in promoting your releases and labels.
3 big axis are proposed to you :
1 – The Nuloop player :
The code for installing Nuloop player can generated straight on labels pages.
Check the right column on this example page . You can setup how you want to sort track (random or ordered) etc..
This player is fast, customizable, automatically updated with new releases and holds a direct link to the label’s page.
Please forward this tips to labels to place it on their myspace, blog website etc…
2 – Banners on nuloop :
We offer free on our pages to boost sales. Here’s some stats about us :
- 4 500 à 6 000 unique visitors a day.
- 125 000 absolute visitors per month.
- 1 500 000 pages a month (excl. Search engines).
- 52,89% of new visits a month : proof of constant new customers incoming.
Banner technical informations :
Size : 468x60 pixels
Weight : 70 ko Max
Type :
Fixed : gif, png, jpg
Animated : gif, swf
Links : Handled by ourself except for swf files (contact us).
Place of banner on pages :
Top of pages
Possibility to filter by language : French or English.
We can imagine focuses on a label or on a release.
Send ready to use banner by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
3 – Content for emailing :
We will launch soon a dedicated mp3 emailing to focus on newies, artists, labels etc..Any content material welcome : texts, biographies, pictures…
WHAT PEOPLE PLAY
Besides What People Play DJ charts things like banners (specs below), infotext, feedbacks, artist pics (600x600px/100dpi.jpg) & -bios are always welcome and very useful to us to push things forward.
Bannerspecs are:
- smaller ones rotating on top: 237x95 px/72dpi.jpg
- long steady ones on starting page: 483x82 px/72dpi.jpg