Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Something better than MySpace for local bands

A new music site is debuting at CMJ.

Listening Post: "Here's some of what artists get with a free account:

* An import tool for grabbing your fans emails from whatever format you have them in right now (Outlook, Gmail, etc.), so that you can get started easily. All bands keep email lists. All of them.
* An email list management tool for sending out show information, announcements, or thoughts on the human condition to all of your fans -- or just some of them. The example I saw demoed today was a message sent only to 'female fans within 5 miles of such-and-such venue.'
* The ability to network with other ReverbNation artists, cross-linking, and setting up shows and tours.
* A Yahoo Maps touring mash-up that works equally well whether your shows span the country or the city. Not only can you access it as an artist, but you can post it anywhere on the web to show a little line move across a map and hit each of your locations, with a little pop-up bubble indicating show details.
* Charts and graphs showing how your fans break down * demographically (age, location, sex, etc.)....

"I saw a lot of ReverbNation today, and it does more for bands than MySpace does in just about every arena, except for the one that really counts: audience exposure."



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A lot of those features look an awful lot like a product that I was marketing earlier year and have been in the process of securing IP protections for: RoadSound.com