promotion tools

Amazon's deadline for submissions is the 10th of the month for all promotions the following month (so please submit anything to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 8th of the month).

Key promotions include:

New Release Daily Deal: we’re looking for an artist with some established fan base, as we look for a great plan from you to drive traffic via the artist’s social networking communities/mailing lists/etc. We also look for a 1-tier cost reduction, enabling us to offer this album for a very compelling price for that 1 day. This receives 100% fixed placement above-the-fold on the MP3 homepage and we Tweet about it to our 1.5 million followers.

Catalog Daily Deal: same promotion as above, but this is for anytime starting 6 weeks post-street date. The only difference is a 2-tier cost reduction for the promotion would make your submission more competitive

100 For $5: each month, we feature a collection of 100 albums, priced at $5 each. This receives promotion on the MP3 homepage, Twitter, and multiple mass mails during the month. We require a $4.90 wholesale cost for the entire month, which is more than offset by the incremental unit volume this promotion drives.

Free Song of the Day: the name explains it. This receives promotion on the MP3 homepage, above-the-fold, as well as a Tweet. Great way to raise awareness of a developing artist and encourage our large base of customers to sample the music.

Free label sampler: requires at least 8 tracks on a label-branded sampler; receives promotion via rotational campaign on MP3 homepage and inclusion in our weekly Delivers newsletter, which gets sent to large subscriber base; we also provide upsell opportunity via link to full-length albums from that label.

Addictech is a focused retail outlet who 'cherry pick' labels and releases to fit their niche and production requirements. They specialize in underground electronic sounds and shy away from anything that sounds like "commercial trance" etc.

Their main focus of attention is on IDM, Electro, Dubstep, Breakbeat, Glitch Hop, Drum and Bass, Ambient, Downtempo, Techno. Their dedication to quality underground music over the years shows in the almost cult like following that their customers have.

They offer permanent features and targeted promotions for Exclusive Releases. Email Jonas @ EPM ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. " data-mce-href="mailto: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. "> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) if you are interested in promoting your release with Additech.

Audiojelly Artist + Music Promotion

Please submit feature banners (dimensions at 189 x 92) for all your releases to EPM at least 3 days before tracks/albums are released.

DJ Charts can be sumbitted by emailing them to  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. " data-mce-href="mailto: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. "> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Follow us at www.twitter.com/audiojelly <http://www.twitter.com/audiojelly>;;

You can create an personal account/profile & Avatar settings

If you wish to discuss a release banner for the store please contact  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. " data-mce-href="mailto: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. "> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Beatport Player generator:
Beatport's banner generator creates dynamic web banners. These banners take seconds to create, are customizable, and automatically update with your new releases making them perfect for any web promotion.
Get started here - http://promote.beatport.com

Step 1. Select a Label or Artist to promote
Step 2. Choose one of four color schemes
Step 3. Choose from the eleven different banner sizes. Then receive the code to embed for your website, Myspace, Facebook, email signature, or online newsletters.

Beatport player:
Simply go to www.beatportplayer.com , enter the info regarding your release or artist you want to promote then copy the coding provided into your settings area.

Tips on getting the best out of Beatport:
- Publish charts by your bigger artists on a regular basis, this has proven to be a easy but very effective tool!
- You can create a Beatport player for inclusion on any myspace or website - info above
- Any bigger release announcements, interviews, videos, etc. can be submitted to Beatportal via the “submit content” feature currently located in the navigation on the left of www.beatportal.com <http://www.beatportal.com/>;; – Just let us know what you have.
- Use direct links for releases, artists, or label in newsletters and announcements on your web pages, by clicking the 'Link to page' button towards the top right hand side of the store.
- Think about offering a release (or just one track or remix within a release) as an exclusive; it will then be especially tagged and possibly get more attention. Its priced higher so can possibly generate more income for the label, but this is not guaranteed.
- Please do not submit banners to Beatport. if they select your release, they will generate their own banner.

Beatport Label and Artist pages: They offer Artist & Label pages but this based on Beatport's approval, and not offered to any Artist or Label

Label page: Images must be exactly 592x96
Artist page: Images must be exactly 590x405

* Forum for new releases and features at: www.beatportal.com
Post any news on your releases, label tours, etc try and get into the habit of submitting to Beatportel.

Beatportal Information
Beatportal – Label Opportunities
There are many ways that record labels can use Beatport’s new community site Beatportal.com to promote your label and content. You can upload your own content to Beatportal including press releases, news stories, club events, videos, podcasts and more.

Submit News Story
Use this section to upload news about anything electronic music related, including information on your label, its releases and interviews with artists. The more unique and exclusive the content the more likely it will be featured (appear on the homepage).

Submit Music Video
If you have any music videos use Beatportal to break them. Videos that coincide with a release on Beatport are great promotional tools.

Submit Radio Show
If your label or any of your artists have online radio shows, upload information and links.

Submit Podcast
If your label or any of your artists have podcasts, upload tracklists and podcast feeds.

Other editorial opportunities
As well as user-generated content, Beatportal has an editorial team producing daily content across the site, including news, interviews, music reviews, and blogs.

News
We will be doing artist interviews, label profiles, track previews, video interviews, industry news and much more.

Music
The 20 Each month, Beatportal highlights the 20 best releases on Beatport by releasing The 20 chart, which includes reviews of each release. Getting your release into The 20 is great promotion.
Music Reviews Beatportal’s music reviews are written by specialist freelancers who pick and review releases on Beatport.

Events
Beatportal has a significant events section to highlight club events and parties around the world. You will soon be able to submit events to this section.

My Beatport

How increasing "My Beatport" followers can impact sales
Did you know that the "My Beatport" feature allows Beatport customers to follow your label and artists? With one click of the 'View Latest Tracks' button, your most loyal fans are presented a custom view into the Beatport music catalog, spotlighting your latest tracks and releases. Encouraging your fans to use "My Beatport" is one of the best advertising tools available to you since it is a navigation fixture on Beatport.com that's unique to each user. It provides highly targeted and direct traffic, touches every step of a customer's shopping experience, and reaches far beyond most traditional online marketing of your Beatport catalog.

How your fans can follow your music using "My Beatport":

Once logged in a Beatport customer can access and locate their "My Beatport" section in the lower left-hand corner of their screen.

There are various ways a fan can follow your music using "My Beatport". One way is by clicking the "Add to My Artists" or "Add to My Labels" button from any label, artist or release page.

Another way is by clicking the "+" button in the upper left-hand corner found beneath the Beatport search bar.

Want to learn more? See their tutorial for more details. https://knowledgebase.beatport.com/kb/article/000013?utm_campaign=

• They have a 'player' you can get for your sites at: http://www.beatsplayer.com/

• To request the 8 page BeatsDigital Promotion Tools pdf please email:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. " data-mce-href="mailto: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. "> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

• Direct Link to your Label Page. Setting up a direct link for your label like www.beatsdigital.com/yourlabel makes it easier for you to bring people to your catalogue on BeatsDigital, whether you are promoting on the web or in print. If you do not find your label like this and you have releases on the store email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

• Banners and Logos. You can find a selection of store banners and logos for your use at http://www.beatsdigital.com/banners . If you'd like us to create a bespoke banner or logo with colours of your choice to fit better with your site or MySpace pages, then just let us know, and we can look to arrange this with the store for you.  If you are unsure how to add the HTML needed to link a banner to your tunes let us know and we can get the unique info for you from the store.

Boomkat are a very selective store who 'cherry pick' labels and releases to fit their niche and discerning electronic/leftfield and dancefloor clientel.

Every week Boomkat also runs 10 rotating banners on the front page, however, this are purely at their own choice.

Boomkat's sister store '14 Tracks' http://14tracks.com puts together a well thought out compilation every week that revolves around either an artist EG: '14 productions or remixes from Redshape' to a visionary label EG '14 classic house tracks from DJ International' or a topical style such as dubstep, alt-rock or minimal wave. The series is highly regarded and also compiled by Boomkat's in house team.

If you have a suggestion that we could put forward to them for '14 Tracks', please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

At Bubblebeat, basically you have the "Easy Access" (Aquarium) with customized selection and the "Full access" with all music genres and for every style : TOP 50 / BB select (selection of the team). Moreover you have the possibility to credit your account / Offer a credit to a friend or just a track ('by cliking on BB+ next to the track).

Download banners and logos via http://www.bubblebeat.com/fr/Goodies

They are planning to develop the Club Chart and Dj's Playlist for the next couple of months.

For a copy of the new 2010 DJ Download / Mixmag Download DJ chart submission form please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

LINKS TO STORES:
http://www.djshop.de
http://www.djshop.ch
http://www.dj-shop.at
http://www.vinyl-distribution.nl
http://www.vinyl-distribution.co.uk

For each franchise shop you´ll find a mp3-player generator:

http://www.djshop.de/player
http://www.djshop.ch /player
http://www.dj-shop.at /player
http://www.vinyl-distribution.nl /player
http://www.vinyl-distribution.co.uk/player

For promotion for your products you can place banner ads on our download portal Djshop for free. Therefore we need the completed banner in format JPG and in the size 700x204 px

If you would like some DJ Shop banners for your site/myspace please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Create a profile. Make a profile in order to create news articles on the store by registering at https://www.digital-tunes.net/users/register. You can edit your profile when logged in from http://www.digital-tunes.net/user_profile/.

Submit news article. Submit a news article on a forthcoming release, an artist/label profile, or anything you can think of by creating it at http://www.digital-tunes.net/news_articles/new. We will moderate your articles and request changes as necessary. When the news article is published it will be listed at http://www.digital-tunes.net/news_articles/, and when the section is launched from Beta also on the front page.

Front page picks. To request a release be featured on the front page picks please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , together with some information on the release. Featured releases cannot be guaranteed but we can always try.

Mini stores. All labels on www.digital-tunes.net will automatically have a branded mini store generated for them. For example label Metalheadz has a mini store at http://metalheadz.digital-tunes.net/, and Compost Records has a mini store at http://compostrecords.digital-tunes.net/. If you are interested in a Digital Tunes mini store please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Digital Tunes banners. Current banners can be found at: http://www.digital-tunes.net/banner/banner1.gif or http://www.digital-tunes.net/banner/banner2.gif

They recently launched the Digital-Tunes mobile store at http://m.digital-tunes.net . This gives our customers easy access to all the tracks on the store right on their favourite mobile device.

Have a look at the screencast at http://vimeo.com/12178544 for a quick overview of the main features of the mobile site, as seen on an iPhone. But it doesn't just work on iPhone, it should work on the majority of mobile devices, including Android phones and all phones using WebKit based browsers. The standard Nokia mobile browser seems to be working nicely also.

PING

To set up an itunes PING artist page please email  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. " data-mce-href="mailto: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. "> This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Here are some of the new features along with the tips to help you get the most out of Ping:
Copy audio from an iPhone or iTunes to your desktop. You can now copy audio from an iPhone or from iTunes to your desktop, and post it on Ping.
Post text, video, and photos using your iPhone 4. You can now post text, video, and photos directly to Ping using your iPhone 4.
Make playlists with friends. Ping makes it easy to create or share playlists. Start a playlist for any occasion from your Ping profile and friends can add any song on iTunes to your mix. Then anyone can rate it, review it, or share it with their own friends on Ping.
Connect with Twitter. Share your music discoveries on Ping with your followers on Twitter. Connect Ping with Twitter to automatically tweet your posts, likes, reviews, and more. Easily see which of your Twitter friends are also on Ping.
Find friends from your webmail address book. Easily see which of your contacts from your MobileMe, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, or AOL address books are already on Ping and follow them with a single click.
Even more improvements. Follow over 4,000 of your favourite artists, and see when and where they're on tour. Filter your Recent Activity to see all posts, only posts from artists, or only posts from friends.
iMix
Create an account with iTunes.

1/ Create a folder in your 'Playlists' call it whatever you like.
Drag your tracks you want in your iMix from the iTunes store into the folder you have created (you won't be downloading them so you won't be charged for the tracks). They will appear in the folder you have created. Click on the folder in your playlist, then go to 'File' menu and select 'Create iMix'. That is it.
You will be asked for your username and password for your iMix to be submitted to iTunes. Also check: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/publishedPlayListHelp

Linkmaker
To get an iTunes button for your website that will link directly to a certain artist / release / track on iTunes. You can also select which iTunes territory you want the button to link to. Check: http://www.apple.com/itunes/linkmaker/

Direct link

By clicking the arrow pointing down icon by the 'buy' button you will get a drop down menu with options such as 'copy link' to get the direct link to a release or track. There are also 'share' option there for Facebook & Twitter

Meetsound® launched a Facebook® application (http://www.facebook.com/meetsoundmusicstore) introducing a new way to discover music on the web via DJs's recommendations.

The application allows DJs, pros or amateurs, to share the quality of their selections with their social network and anyone to follow and download the music recommandations of his favorite DJs.

To request the Meetsound full presentation pdf document please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Store Banners for use on your sites to let you know where they can buy your music. www.juno.co.uk/juno-images/
Create a chart for publish on the JunoDownload store, check: http://www.junodownload.com/help/my-charts/
Get a Junodownload 'player' for your website, check: http://www.junodownload.com/design-your-juno-player/
Junodownload have a selection of unique tools ready for you to enhance your release campaign and increase your digital sales. These include:

URL Links
Juno Player Code
Buy Buttons and Banners
Social Networks Share links for Banner: Juno is 180pixels x 108pixel
Junoplayer

www.juno.co.uk/juno-images/ <http:// <http:///>;; www.juno.co.uk/juno-images/>

http://www.junodownload.com/design-your-juno-player/

Info on how Juno decide on who is featured and who is not:

The rank is determined by sales strictly speaking, however they take in to consideration other factors, including:

Review in national/international publication
Review in well renowned internet magazine/blog
Remix produced by a big artist (artists rank also based on sales)
Appears in 3 or more DJ Charts (DJ Charts must be submitted by recognized Artists/DJs)
Failed searches (when a user searches for a title before its release and the search returns a blank we record this as a failed search, a substantial number of these for the same title could result in a feature)

Because Juno sell both physical and digital releases they have two back end systems that they use to determine sales rank, this is then cross referenced with other data like the output of the label, obviously a label churning out a substantial number of poor releases will still feature quite high in an overall sales rank, due to quantity not quality. It is therefore impossible for me to give you a break down of their top selling labels.

From Juno: We have a substantial amount of demand now for frontpage features and we have had to restrict coverage on the front page to our top 1000 labels. I am more than happy for you to fire over any request and I will determine their feature-ability on a label by label and title by title basis. Discuss this further with Jonas on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Post to Facebook in just one click!

If you post a release on Juno Download to your Facebook profile, they will automatically embed a new-look Juno player with enhanced features straight on to your page!

Enhance your page and engage your fans...

Features include:

- New enhanced design

- One-click post

- Full waveform view

- Skip/scroll tracklist

- Cover art

- Volume/mute control

- Buy link to Juno

How to post your player in one click

If you're already logged into Facebook it just takes one click to post a player on to your page or profile. There are two ways to post your player:

1) Use "SHARE" button on Juno Download

- Find your release on Juno Download

- Move mouse over "SHARE" button in the top right corner of the page

- Select Facebook

2) Paste link into your profile

- Copy the Juno Download URL

- Paste it directly onto your Facebook page

- Click "SHARE"

MyClubbingStore is a newcomer to the market of music downloads for DJs and enthusiasts of this genre: download files in high quality MP3, see Weekly Charts, listen to songs in styles House, Electro, Dance, Electro-House, Techno, Trance, Groove, Ragga, Minimal, Hardstyle among a large catalog updated daily with the latest new tracks.

Link to the store : http://www.myclubbingstore.com
Link to the blog : http://www.myclubbingstore.com/blog
Link to our facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Clubbing-Store/80983388756?ref=ts
Link to our promotionnal banners : http://www.myclubbingstore.com/bannieres.html

If you would like to promote one of your artists (put him on highlight on our website, create a chart, …) , you can contact them at : http://www.myclubbingstore.com/contact.html

French based store Nuloop select their choices internally.

The three main areas for promo are:

1 – The Nuloop player :
The code for installing Nuloop player can generated straight on labels pages.
Check the right column on this example page <http://www.nuloop.com/en/mp3/discography/label/Vintage+Records/1397/>;; . You can setup how you want to sort track (random or ordered) etc..
This player is fast, customizable, automatically updated with new releases and holds a direct link to the label’s page.
Please forward this tips to labels to place it on their myspace, blog website etc…

2 – Banners on nuloop :
Offer free on pages to boost sales. Here’s some stats about their store:
- 4 500 - 6 000 unique visitors a day.
- 125 000 absolute visitors per month.
- 1 500 000 pages a month (excl. Search engines).
- 52,89% of new visits a month : proof of constant new customers incoming.

Banner technical informations :
Size : 468x60 pixels
Weight : 70 ko Max
Type :
Fixed : gif, png, jpg
Animated : gif, swf
Links : Handled by ourself except for swf files (contact us).

Place of banner on pages :
Top of pages
Possibility to filter by language : French or English.

We can imagine focuses on a label or on a release.
Send ready to use banner by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

3 – Content for emailing :
Submit news items about your release or the artist for Nuloop to include in their customer mailouts

If you do not understand Spanish click the 'English version' button next to the Phonomonkey logo on the top left.

One effective promotion tool is to provide a free DJ mix to promote your release. This mix will be highlighted on the “free download” banner on the home page. You can use this banner to promote a label or artists, offering a free download of an artist dj/live mix, a label compilation, etc…It will be supported with a label/artist feature (or questionarie) at the NEWS section + customer mailouts.

- Submit an interview/Q&A with your artist who has a new release on your label. This will then be added to the 'News' section + included in the customer mailout

- Label Charts with a top 10 from your label (make sure the tracks are available to buy on the store)

- DJ Charts that include 1 or 2 of your label’s tracks, one of which from the latest release you are hoping to promote (make sure the tracks are available to buy on the store). Submit the chart to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

- Banner on your website/Myspace/Newsletter

- Join/add on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/phonomonkeycom/84368381346?ref=ts

Twitter: http://twitter.com/phonomonkey

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/phonomonkey

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/phonomonkey

** Send new release messages to your social networks **

Every artist and album can be easily linked to with the following URL's:
Play.rhapsody.com/artistname/albumname – to stream the album
Mp3.rhapsody.com/artistname/albumname – to purchase the album

For more info, look here: http://learn.rhapsody.com/?src=rcom_navtop
Also, you can use this tool to link to Rhapsody for each album: http://www.rhapsody.com/rhaplinkTool

For some Rhapsody logos which you can use on your promo site please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

For more info, look here: http://learn.rhapsody.com/?src=rcom_navtop