If you're an artist, run a label, are a venue or a promoter the only thing that really matters is the relationship with your audience. Media Junction Digital is a digital marketing agency in Arts & Entertainment and will help you reach your audience.
Our in-house website development continues to grow with the addition of Dan Styles as our Lead Developer. Dan has a wealth of experience from working in LA for a number of years on websites such as Billabong. He is expert in lots of abbreviations such as PHP, MySQL, Java & Flash. Want websites, e-commerce, databases or expandable leader-boards? Dan lives and breaths ‘em. Not only that, he writes & records wicked D’nB tunes. Here’s one on his Soundcloud.
Leddra Chapman, a 20 year old singer/songwriter, has just been added to the C-list of Radio 2. It followed several plays by Sir Terry on his morning show. Can we petition him to stay longer?
You can find out more information about Leddra here, including links to her Quiksilver photos. This is a copy of a press release that I emailed out using Mailchimp, which has a handy ‘Share’ facility.
If anyone would like to ask Leddra some questions please let me know. Serious requests only please – at least send a link to any blog you may write.
Mama Group has launched the new website for The Forum. In a similar fashion to the Hammersmith Apollo site, it was a collaboration between Media Junction, Mama Group and Modera. The CMS is designed to allow Mama Group editors to control all aspects of the design and content.
In a very welcome move Facebook has updated its Ad Manager interface. It contains better navigation, more options and a better, more clear display. We have been advertising on Facebook for over 12 months and in our view they’re still a long way behind Google Ad Words. That said, Facebook is still ahead of other Social Networks, especially its rival MySpace.
When you consider over 18m people in the UK use Facebook on a regular basis, the network represents one of the most powerful advertising & marketing platforms in history. And yet, up till now, the difficulty using the Ad Manager has slowed uptake. Maybe this new update will change things but still a long way to go.
The new website for Hammersmith Apollo has just gone live. Production was a collaboration between Mama Group, Modera and Media Junction. It features their future shows, video powered by Muzu and an awesome 3D virtual tour of the venue, supplied by Full Visual. This is the latest in a series of websites we have been involved with for Mama – other include The Fly and Global Gathering.
There is a post on today’s Music Ally about Leddra Chapman. She is now a ‘Women’s Ambassador‘ for Quiksilver. She recently played a gig at the Quiksilver Pro Surf Championships in France and sent us loads of lovely photos of beaches and surf boards. Quiksilver have also built her a website which allows people to download her forthcoming single, ‘Story’. It works like this: During October & November anyone who buys clothing at Quiksilver stores will notice on the label a link to Leddra’s website and informed about the free download.
It’s a good example of how young artists are figuring out new ways to distribute their music.
I was interviewed by Mr Tom “2-4-6-8″ Robinson on BBC Radio 6. The interview is here. The program has a segment where ‘experts’ are invited in to provide advice to new artists. My piece was about the internet and what bands can do with it to know their fans. I’ll let you in to a secret though, I didn’t have to show up at midnight on Sunday.
I had a very pleasant lunch with a very well known artist on Friday. She is out of her record deal and wondering what route to take for her solo debut. She opinioned that today the amount of choice perhaps makes it more difficult. At least ten years ago there was one route, albeit not without it’s problems. But now, faced with the myriad of different alternatives, which is the best option? For some artists, the independent route may not always be right. For an established artist a hybrid is probably best.
Saw new film doc "we call it acid" history of dance music '86-90. Amazing to recall a time everyone believed dancing could change the world 2 weeks ago
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