Ad-supported music site proof of concept
Build your own DIY, ad-supported music site by pulling pop tunes set to commercials off YouTube.
If listeners are already giving some of their at attention to ads, why not have the pitch playing in the background for the entirety of the song? (Seems sorta like what RCRD LBL is doing, sans the YouTube bit and videos, of course.)
The very start of this fake, legal, ad-supported music site:
Cat Power
Iron & Wine
Of Montreal
Mates of State
Like Hype Machine, but way more legal and limited! (I spared you the web real estate of embedding all those vids, but the one-click access would be better.) Also: ran across AdTunes in the course of this; great site for music in commercials.
Better yet, you can (relatively) easily construct a personalized “radio station” out of these legally licensed music videos. No need to pay royalties since these are freely available and licensed from the labels directly. There are a couple of sites already doing it – just give them your last.fm username and they do the rest.
J Herskowitz
June 29, 2007 at 12:45 pm
OOoOOoooh. I have to track those down and check them out.
Josh Kimball
June 29, 2007 at 1:00 pm
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September 22, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Great info, we DO expect (though) that the ad-supported model WILL work. //keeping our noses down and pushing ahead…
Sincerely,
The Songnumbers Team
PS, we just pushed out BETA 2 of our site!
The Songnumbers Team
March 31, 2009 at 11:38 am