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razvan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:48:23 +0000

Widgetmatic Examples – Music Industry

600 and 630 Series
- Tobymac (EMI/True Management) – 3 Versions
- MercyMe (Ino Records) – 3 Versions
- Marvin Winans Jr (M2 Entertainment)
- Francesca Battistelli (Word Label Group) – 3 Versions
- Cypress Hill
- SuperChick
- SuperChick
- Mary Mary
- Chris Sligh (Brash Music)
- Jars of Clay (Midas Records)
- Third Day (Essential Records)
- TobyMac’s Winter Wonderland Slam (True Management)

200 Series
- Dead by Sunrise (Warner Records) | Count Down Version
- LIGHTS – Keytar Hero (Warner Records)
- Altantic Time Capsule – Virtual Vinyl (Atlantic Records)
- The Maine – Video Player (Warner Records)
- Matthew West – Promo Widget (EMI/Method Management)
- Tim McGraw – Still (Curb Records)
- Devo (Warner Records)
- The Maine (Warner Records)
- Avenged Sevenfold (Warner Records)
- Disturbed (Warner Records)
- The Independent Music Awards

100 Series (Playlists)
- Michelle Branch Playlist (Warner Records)

400 Series (Custom Video)
- Creed Full Circle Tour Live (Rockpit) (Rockpit)

Examples

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:03:19 +0000

Facebook Page and Applications

Welcome/Start Tabs
- Casting Crowns
- Hillsong
- Kelis (Production)
- K’naan (Production)
- Kutless
- Matthew West
- Merrell
- Remedy Drive
- Sanctus Real
- Sidewalk Prophets
- The Pretty Reckless
- TobyMac
- Usher
- WOW SHARES
Music Tabs
- Marvin Winans Jr
- Orianthi
- Pocket Full of Rocks
- Sons of Sylvia
Album Reveal Tabs
- Carney
- Hillsong
- Jeremy Camp
- Kelis
- Matt Morris
Video Reveal Tabs
- Jeremy Camp
- Natalie Grant
Ecommerce Tabs
Widget Tabs
Events and Live Cast Tabs
- Rascal Flatts – Ustream
- tobyMac Livestream – Livestream
- UPROAR (Production) – YouTube
- Tom Petty (Album Redeem)
Download Tabs
- Fearless Records
Community Tabs
- Matthew West
Content Tabs
Applications

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Widget Platform

Downloads (mpCloud)

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admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:26:19 +0000

Music Artists and Widgets: A Guide

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:52:14 +0000

This post is an updated version of a post I did sometime ago on our sister blog that deals with music artists and widgets. Most artists are aware of how web-based widgets have become! One could argue that MySpace (and music) were responsible for taking widgets mainstream, and the growth of other social networks (Facebook) has only fueled people use and desire for widgets! Today, widgets continue to provided probably one of the best viral mechanism for music artists to let fans share their music.

Music artist widgets generally solve the following problems for recording artists and labels:

Fan Acquisition: Widgets allow bands to virally grow your fan base by enabling fans to share your music via the widget. Atlantic Record’s Eric Snowden talks about the same widget traffic driving phenomenon as well.
Information Distribution: Widget make it easier to keep fans up to date on upcoming releases and events
Fan Retention: It is a known fact that widgets increase the amount of time fans spend on artist sites by keeping fans “engaged”
Digital Music Sales: Widgets are about demand creation and fulfillment when it comes to online digital track sales as artists link widgets directly to Apple’s iTune, Amazon or their own fulfillment ecommerce service.

Growing Digital Track Sales
Digital music track sales are hitting record highs! According to Billboard Magazine, in December 2008 US weekly digital track sales have set a new record of 47.7 million ). And this phenomena is not limited to North America, global digital music sales hit $2.9 billion in 2007, up from $2.1 billion in 2006! Although digital sales only account for 18% of the U.S. music market (15% of the world) today, Forrester Research expects this figure will grow to 41% in five years.

This digital music sales trend continues and is evident from the recent numbers from Nielsen/Soundscan.

Digital Marketing through Widgets
If sales are digital, marketing has to be digital! Record labels like Interscope and Warner are taking to the web to drive music sales. (Interscope Record’s artist Lady GaGa’s “Just Dance,” topped the charts in December 200 with 419,000 downloads). Being big fans of social media in general, Interscope Records has pushed digital sales by encouraging artists to use widgets and have used their own social media apps (See Interscope Songcard on Facebook) to drive sales. Some credit Warner music with pioneering directly selling music through widgets as well.

Getting on the Widget Band Wagon:
Music arists and labels have a number of options when it comes to designing and developing widget that include:

Custom “Single Use” Widgets: Probably the most common route for artist and labels is to simply build a custom Flash-based widget either internally or using a company like Metablocks. We build a lot of these. The problem with “single-use” widgets, however, is they have a limited life-span and they tend to be static. They usually focus on a single artist, album or event and over time are “discarded” by fans as they loose their relavence.
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) “Single Use” Widgets: A number of “free” widget toolkits exist that allow artists and labels to quickly assemble a simple widget. Unlike a custom solution, many of these offerings come with limited functionality, third-party branding and most are no long “free”. Worst of all, almost all depend on third-party infrastructure that may not scale or may be retired if the provider exits the market.
Standards-Based Widget Platform: A widget content delivery platform is the only solution that gives music labels “total ownership” of your widget content management and deployment. This is the idea behind Metablock’s Widgetmatic platform (which is currently in beta). Widgetmatic shifts the focus from “flash development” to “content delivery”, and from a “single use” mindset to a “fan lifecycle” mentality. It enables labels to launch and manage multiple artists on the same platform, using the widget as “portal” to continually and dynamically deliver new and relavent rich-media content to an artist’s fan. This content is not limited to music or news but includes dynamic “mini-applications” such as twitter feeds, interactive maps, and dozens of others.

Artistmatic

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:13:56 +0000

Wiki

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:14:15 +0000

Widgetmatic

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:04:15 +0000

Metablocks

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:03:50 +0000

About

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:30:51 +0000

Metablocks Sound and Pictures is a division of Metablocks, Inc. that develops technology and services for music labels, marketers and artists to help them drive digital music sales through online social media channels that include Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Widgets.

Music industry products and services include:

Widgetmatic: Widget Content Management Framework and Platform
Artistmatic: Social Media Analytics Dashboard for Music Labels, Artists and Bands
Code2Music: QR-code and Augmented Reality solutions for music labels
Tweematic: Twitter Marketing Applications for Music Artist and Labels
Flashmatic: Photo Marketing Solution for Music Events and Tours
Facebook Applications:
Widget Development: Custom Widget, MySpace, Twitter and Facebook Application Development
Social Media Strategy: Social Media Marketing Strategy and Consulting Services
mpCLOUD: Secure Music Downloads

Click Here to Contact Metablocks Sound and Pictures or call 888-503-7182 x 90

Music and Marketing Technology

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:30:51 +0000

Welcome to the Metablocks Sound and Pictures blog! Metablocks Sound and Music is a division of Metablocks, Inc. We focus on selling technology solutions into the music, film and entertainment industries and thought it would be a great idea to have our own blog focused on music and movie marketing overt the Internet. Stay tuned for most posts on the subject!