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MUSIC REVIEW

If you are an artist, label or rightsholder interested in gaining a music review on OpenMusicWire.com by providing a Free Music Download Offer under a Creative Commons license, here's what you'll get:

  • Add your track(s) to Jamendo.com, which has well over 550,000+ active members that will have access to your free music download offers, as well as a handful of Bit Torrent site partners, enabling all parties to share with others.
  • Post your review on OpenMusicWire.com
  • Feature your review in our monthly Open Music Alert email blast that goes out to our affiliates consisting of Blogs, e-Zines, iRadio Stations, Music Video Sites, etc. who can listen and download your track for programming and/or editorial consideration.

We consider all music that gets submitted to us for review. To meet our submission guidelines, you will first need to contact us via email with the following information:

1. First & Last Name
2. Artist/Band Name
3. Label Name (if applicable)
4. Country
5. Contact Number
6. Email Address
7. Primary/Secondary Music Genre
8. Track Title(s) for us to Consider
9. Album Title & Release Date (if applicable)
10. How did you hear about us?

Please include a website or social network URL (MySpace preferred) that contains the track(s) of choice for consideration. If you send us an MP3 or any other song file using the emails in our contact page, it may be automatically deleted.

For each song you agree to provide as a Free Music Download Offer, Jamendo.com will automatically apply a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) license to them:

This license is the most restrictive of Creative Commons' six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the "free advertising" license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially.

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Internet Radio Promotions

PRIMARY STATION SERVICING > > > $50 per Station

For those who are in need of promoting music to a select number of major Internet radio stations, Primary Station Servicing is now available to you. Upon track approval, Open Music Wire will help you choose which primary stations will work best to meet your overall radio campaign goals. Open Music Wire will service your single to selected stations and follow-up with them for programming consideration.

A full station listing will be provided upon track approval, though here are a handful of primary stations that are available: 1Club.FM, .977 Music, AccuRadio, AOL Radio, GotRadio, iHeartMusic.com (Clear Channel Online), Last.FM, Pandora, PlayRadioUK, RadioIo, Real-Rhapsody, Sirius-XM Radio, Slacker and Yahoo! LAUNCHcast.

Since the majority of primary stations request a CD, you will need a professional promo CD available to be serviced. If you do not have a promo CD, we offer professional promo CD duplication and printing at the rate of $5.00 per disc. Shipping is already covered in this service.

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INTERNET RADIO PROMOTIONS PACKAGE > > > $900

Internet Radio Promotions is Open Music Wire's core service that specializes in servicing both primary and secondary station across the World Wide Web. As radio's next big thing, the Internet radio audience alone already boasts 69 million Americans alone (January 2009, Arbitron and Edison) and will begin to grow substantially throughout the world, especially once fully integrated into the automobile industry, as well as when free Wi-Fi locations continue to grow across the globe.

While other Internet radio promotion services concentrate on thousands of stations through email blasts and account access points, Open Music Wire primarily has relations with major stations and channels that will influence the success of your overall campaign, providing the following:

  • Music Review and Free Download Offer on OpenMusicWire.com (optional)
  • Digitally delivery your single (using download links and/or MP3s) out to 100+ primary and secondary personal station relations, such as 1Club.FM, .977 Music, AccuRadio, AOL Radio, Batanga, iHeartMusic.com (Clear Channel Online), GotRadio, Jango, Last.FM, Pandora, PlayRadioUK, RadioIo, Real-Rhapsody, Sirius-XM Radio, Slacker, Sky.FM, Yahoo! LAUNCHcast, We7, and many more. 
  • Provide mailing address labels for you to ship out promo CDs to select recipients (or) have us execute professional fulfillment CD printing & duplication, including shipping and handling at the rate of $10 per package. 
  • Payment terms may be structured to meet your overall budget. Ask us about discounted rates for additional tracks to be streamlined during the same campaign duration.
  • Weekly reports leading up to Final Report

NOTE: to compliment your Internet Radio Promotions campaign, please take a look at the iRadio Promotional Consideration service directly below.

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iRADIO PROMOTIONAL CONSIDERATION > > > Rates Vary

To compliment your Internet radio campaign, the iRadio Promotional Consideration program allows artists and labels to purchase airplay LEGALY from large Internet Radio Stations in order to give them an extra boost at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the campaigning efforts. Upon station approval, here's a few benefits gained from the program:

  • Have a Sponsored ID produced for you (anywhere between 10-15 seconds in length) by a recommended voice-over creator that will air prior to each spin. The Sponsored ID will indicate who's sponsoring the next played song (i.e. record label or artist website) and where listeners can purchase the song and/or album.
  • Artists and labels are able to view their airplay being played in real-time from an iRadioStats.com subscription, while exporting reports into an Excel document at any given time. 
  • Artists and labels have a great opportunity to keep their serviced track in rotation upon listener interest. 
  • Station partners pay out royalties to Performance Rights Organization, including SoundExchange

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RADIO DIGITAL SERVICING > > > $1.50 per Recipient

Our partners at Play MPE has a Secure Media Delivery System that's a fast and cost effective method of digitally delivering music and music videos to industry professionals, but more importantly to your targeted radio formats and sub-formats. The system provides ease of use while maintaining a high level of security. Registered industry professionals are able to receive promotional or pre-released singles, music videos or albums directly from the content owner as broadcast-quality digital audio and video files. It is the only digital delivery service that provides its customers with a choice of audio file export options including WAV, Scott Studios WAV, WMA and the licensed AAC (iPod) file format.

The Open Music Wire agreement with Play MPE's parent company Destiny Media Technologies allows Open Music Wire to deliver your single(s) through their system for you, while monitoring which recipients have listened and downloaded your single(s). At only $1.50 per recipient, the Play MPE System provides an inexpensive method of delivering content securely and in a timely manner to industry professionals, getting your single(s) to market sooner than traditional CDs while eliminating the costs of manufacturing, packaging and shipping.

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Music Video Promotions

MUSIC VIDEO PROMOTIONS > > > $900

With the steady growth of music videos being requested online, in mobile communications, on cable, in-flight, and at retail and hospitality locations, music videos are becoming premium content for program consideration. Each outlet has specific requirements for servicing content to them, and some need to have a licensing agreement signed prior to servicing. When it comes to servicing media, the most popular forms are DVD, Beta SP and Mini DV, as well as uploading content via an FTP access point whenever available. The Music Video Promotions service provides the following:

  • Post a Free Music Download review featuring the music video on OpenMusicWire.com, where our affiliates can check out for programming and/or editorial consideration
  • Have your music video ingested in the Internet Video Archives, while gaining placement in the video directories on AllMusic.com, Billboard.com and SingingFool.com
  • Allow your music video to be licensable through akaMedia for opportunities in the U.K. Broadcast, In-Flight and Mobile market place
  • Service your music video to the following Online, Cable and Retail Pool Video Outlets for programming consideration: AOL Music, BaebleMusic, Batanga, Channel M, DMX, eVision, iHeartMusic (Clear Channel Online), JBTV, LA TV, ManiaTV, Music Choice, Music Mix USA, Much Music, Muzak, New York Noise, Play Network, PromoOnly, Real-Rhapsody, RNRtv, Screenplay, Split TV, Static Television, The A&R Channel, The Bobby T Show and Yahoo! Music. 
  • Provide you with mailing address labels for you to ship out media (Beta SP, DVD or Mini DV) to select recipients. Open Music Wire also provides fulfillment media duplication (Beta SP, DVD & Mini DV) through CCI Digital. 
  • Payment may be structured to meet your overall budget

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Press Release Services

PRESS RELEASE WRITING, PLACEMENT & DISTRIBUTION > > > $500 - $660

Open Music Wire staffs professional writers who have been trained to execute press releases that captivate journalists, bloggers, consumers and everyday Internet users who may be conducting a search relevant to the release. Open Music Wire editors are trained at tagging press releases with key words that will generate strong Search Engine Optimization (SEO) within newswires and search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

Once a press release has been finalized for distribution, it's now ready for placement in our partner's Billboard Publicity Wire service. Press release placement using the Billboard Publicity Wire's system is a very important step at getting the press release properly positioned and can be a timely task for those who are not familiar with it. Our editorial staff is trained to make sure that all the proper steps have been taken to place the press release and file attachments (logos, photos, artwork, documents and audio). Added value tools are also taken into careful consideration and are made sure they have been accounted for. Some of the added values consist of tagging the release with Technorati Tags, placing a YouTube URL for video review, and selecting the highest possible ranked industry categories for the release.

The more files and file types that are attached to the release, the stronger the Search Engine Optimization will be under Universal Search properties, which also helps to establish headline impressions on RSS, XML or other syndication sites, as well as Billboard Publicity Wire, Billboard.biz, PRWeb.com, eMediaWire.com, 3rd party sites via Javascript, and the Topix and Pheedo Network

To maximize online visibility, the Billboard Publicity Wire service provides robust Web presence with a matchless delivery network of media contacts, freelance journalists, industry analysts and multiple syndication networks within the Entertainment & Music Industry, providing cutting edge technologies to meet and exceed our client's needs and expectations.

Along with the distribution of each press release, search engine promotions are included. Search engine traffic plays a vital role in the success of any news release. Journalists and Industry Analysts increasingly rely on major search engines for their research. Consequently, every press release distributed through the network is optimized for maximum organic search engine inclusion. Search engines can then crawl naturally and efficiently index our client's press release. This exclusive technology and unmatched infrastructure provides the best available search traffic directed to our client's news items. The Billboard Publicity Wire service guarantees the inclusion of our client's press release in major search engines.

A sample press release can be viewed here: http://billboard.prweb.com/releases/Two_Spot_Gobi-Oscar_Night/2-18-2009/prweb2033964.htm

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