Boomkat are a very selective store who cherry pick labels and releases to fit their niche and discerning electronic/leftfield and dancefloor clientel. Often getting your label onto the store is already a sign of a quality label that has appeal to its members. 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, please email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

• Top 10 charts Trackitdown. Pretty straight forward but this is the 2nd most popular way for our customers to shop on Trackitdown, second only to the ‘Featured Section’ which is where we highlight all the key and best releases. All the artist needs to do is pick 9 live tracks off the site and add the new release that we are promoting to the top. Fire over the list to me with a square artist image and we publish it on site. Then, so long as the artist is A-List we use the new release and the chart in our Monday mailout that now goes out to over 150,000, which on the day of release is obviously a massive PR tool! Newsletters look like this... http://www.trackitdown.net/newsletter/2008-11-24/e-flyer.html
  
• Sample Pack section where they sell production samples packages that you make up. See a list here of what is available so far: http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/sample_packs/search_A.html
• Player you can create for your sites. They can set up a direct ink to your label so the url would be www.trackitdown.net/yourlabel
• Spec is below and please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for an overlay that needs to go on top too. We host these free of charge if the label can supply them
  · Dimensions: 816x105px with overlay on top
  · Format: Flash or animated gif
  · Linking to either track page or label page
  · Link target should be “_parent” for Flash banners.
• Front Page Feature: We host short Q & A sessions with the artist to publish on the front page along with an artist image, obviously we would link to the release and to the artist page on TID at the bottom of the interview therefore driving traffic directly to the product.
• Remix Competition / Sample Pack: We like to host remix competition’s as often as possible. We would then sell the parts of the track on the site for around £2.50 in a bundle that would also include the full track which, as well as selling more music, adds revenue for labels too. We would discuss a deadline and advertise accordingly and forward any entries to the labels for consideration. As part of this package we would also ask the artist to provide us with an artist ‘Sample Pack’ of around 150 samples from their hard-drive that we could sell for £14.99 alongside the new album and to drive customers towards the remix competition. The label return on this is £5.70 per unit. We have recently run a competition with Christian Fischer on the back of his ‘Bryzant Games’ album and have had a very positive response! Here is a link to the Christian Fischer project as an example : http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/sample_packs/track/727584.html With regards to a prize for the winning entry, the standard deal is that the winning remix gets a release on the hosting label.
• HTML Codes for Myspace: Once we have a release, sample pack or a chart, we can supply the label with HTML codes for both that can be pasted into a Myspace to create a ‘sticker’ that visitors can click on to be directed straight to the release, or the chart, on TID.
• Facebook App: The Trackitdown Facebook application allows you to publish your 'Public Playlist'
  to your profile and pages as well as post tracks to friends profiles and send
  tracks as part of Facebook messages.
  This user guide is designed to help you add the application to your Facebook
  account and exploit the full potential of it's features. Each step is detailed below
  with images and video to help guide you through the process.
  For full information email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  

• Create a profile. Create a profile to use when creating 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 info@digital!tunes.net, together with some information on the release. We can't promise to feature every release, but we will do our best!
• 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/. The mini!store subdomain is constructed by converting the label name to lower case, and removing spaces. Logos for labels are retrieved from Discogs automatically each night, but if you wish to supply your own, please email it to manual!updates@digital!tunes.net.
• Banners. Current banners can be found at: http://www.digital!tunes.net/banner/banner1.gif / http://www.digital!tunes.net/banner/banner2.gif

Stompy.com's mission has always been to be a specialized boutique focusing on the music, artists and labels we have been representing for over 16 years through our production company. One of the very first digital download sites for DJs, Stompy has created its signature "Stompy Sound", which encompasses funky, deep, tech, moody, minimal, broken beat and downtempo. Paying more attention to quality and not quantity, we ear select each release to fit our "aural vision".

Here are a few marketing ideas which we currently use, but we are always willing to think outside the box for other promotions:

• EP spotlights: this is the most effective way of promoting within our site, as the spotlight can be viewed from every page on the site so it attracts more attention. The standard price is $50 for 30,000 views, or $75 for 60,000 views. However, we are always willing to trade free spotlights for specialized promotion, such as a dedicated email blast announcing the content on Stompy from the label or for Stompy logos and sponsorship on event flyers.
• Label spotlights: Just like above, but the spotlight takes their user to their label profile page, where all releases are listed.
• Charts: As one of the most heavily viewed pages on the site, it helps promote the artists and the label. If any would like to participate, simply send a list of 10 tracks from the site along with a picture and we'll sort it out and add it to the Charts section. Please email your charts to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
• Exclusive Pre-Release: For content where we receive the EP exclusively for a period of time, we will offer it at a premium price ($2.99 .mp3/$3.49 wav), give it a free spotlight, and guarantee front page placement.
• Label/Stompy banners for web: Make a label banner that includes the label logo and Stompy logo which links to the releases on Stompy, used for Myspace and message board posts and advertising
• Artwork dimensions: logo profile image for label pages = 523 pixels wide x 75 pixels high / spotlight dimensions = 176 pixels wide X 106 pixels high

Every artist and album can be easily linked to with the following urls:
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 e-mail 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

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

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

A new store we have just started working with. Here are ways that you can get your music featured on their store.

• 1. articles
• 2. banners
• 3. videos
• 4. free-downloads
• 5. podcasts

1. Articles
They have two music journalists who produce articles about artists, albums and labels on a regular basis. These contents are listed in the magazine and on the respective album page, later in their newsletter. If you have corresponding texts, you may send them to me in order to have them published on akuma more quickly. You can send me any information (your own reviews, interviews, pics.) about your artists/album.

2. Banners
The navigation bar is integrated into and visible on all pages. It contains four banner spaces. Banners are displayed in rotation and are exchanged regularly. Their own banner system operates the banners. In these areas, the labels may prominently place their select songs and other content, thereby specially promoting them. You may deliver to us banners for albums, artists or labels. The respective album, artist or label page on akuma will be used as target URL.

At a glance:
Banners on akuma
Size: 235 x 120 pixels (width x height)
Formats: GIF, JPG, PNG, Flash

3. Videos
On the akuma homepage you can find the video tool, called akuma tv, which shows five music videos as promo. They do not sell these videos. They are a kind of sales promotion. They are in the fileformat "flash", which is very secure and it is not possible to rip the videos.
Have a look here: http://www.akuma.de/

Akuma tv is a tool to arouse interest and not only hear music but also to see it. It is important for us to give the user who loves music the opportunity to discover music in more ways then the usual ones. They don't want to do all the usual things that other portals do. I mean, the user can watch a lot of musicvideos at youtube but there he don't have the opportunity to buy the music. They do have this service. This is a quite good combination and this service is unique in Germany!

They show 5 videos in a rotation on akuma tv. They change the videos every week - so that they have one new release per week or more. Please send videos, if you have, in the file format VOB or MPEG.

4. Free-Downloads
An other promotion tool is the "Free-MP3 download". The user gets a free download after registering as a user. If you have any tracks that you can handle like a "give away" then send me the mp3s and they will release it. Here you also have the opportunity to limit the downloads if you like. This Free-MP3 concept is not new, they use it like a chance for the user to discover new music. If a user gets music for free, then he will hear it and perhaps - in the second step - he will buy an album. You can see the first selection here:

If you like they can create a promotion-flyer which includes informations about this free-download(artist/label/album). This flyer will be added to the download, so that every user who has the mp3 will have the promotion info.

5. Podcasts
They will release a podcast on akuma every 6-8 weeks. The two akuma journalists talk about new releases and interesting topics like a music radio show. If you like you can send any interview-recording and they can use it in their podcast.

• 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 e-mail 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 let me know and I will ask Beats Digital about getting it set up.
• Banners and Logos. You can find a selection of banners and logos for your use at www.beatsdigital.com/labels/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 sort one out for you in an instant! If you’re not a web expert and are unsure how to add the HTML needed to link a banner to your tunes, we’ll be happy to help you.

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.

<http://cl.exct.net/?qs=7e8b6368dba7ae2a47cc8049cab1dabd1c27675769d7af420a934060d679869a> Get started here - http://promote.beatport.com <http://promote.beatport.com/> <http://cl.exct.net/?qs=7e8b6368dba7ae2a47cc8049cab1dabd1c27675769d7af420a934060d679869a>      

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 <http://cl.exct.net/?qs=a6bd9598d55af4b4aa3bfd2d9b11bd07229aec0d8ba9260bdce03778134b6dc0> , 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 at www.beatportplayer.com <http://www.beatportplayer.com/>  it’s a simple process the site is very intuitive
- 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 > ask us to generate these for you!
- Think about offering a release (or just one track or remix within a release) as an exclusive; it will then be especially tagged and thus get more attention, and last but not least generate more revenue per release.
- Please do not submit banners to Beatport. if they select your release, they will generate their own banner.

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

* Create a Beatport Player for you website or Myspace
* 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.

iMix
Create an account with iTunes. (see info attached)
Also check: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it6-2.html
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.

Linkmaker
To get an iTunes button for yoru 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/

• 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 Junodownlod 'player' for your website, check: http://www.junodownload.com/design-your-juno-player/

We 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 we 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 our 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.

People's Music Store is a really quick, easy and free way for labels and artists to promote their music. Once a label has set up a store, it will have it's own unique URL which can be used to drive traffic direct to the store. The key to being really successful is for labels to inform their mailing list about the site and encourage their fans to set up stores and become storekeepers. Each storekeeper then invites their contacts to the store stocking the label releases and very quickly you have a keen, online 'Street Team' marketing and promoting the music, with very little resource involved for the label. So all a label needs to do is:-

• Set up a store. Setting up a basic store is very quick and easy but the more interesting stores require more time - we understand the lack of resource labels have and are happy to offer direct support and help for anyone who wants to create a store. Stores can include artist bio's and information on releases etc and video promo's can also be embedded, see ( http://peoplesmusicstore.com/rose_is_a_rose ) as an example. Good examples of stores include:-
• Label pages: http://peoplesmusicstore.com/warmdata / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/scyllarecords / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/machine-records / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/riserecordings
• Fan pages: http://peoplesmusicstore.com/dynamicmonkey / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/walpod / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/auntsallys / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/guitarbar / http://peoplesmusicstore.com/alartificiallife
• Tell their mailing list. Encouraging fans to also set up stores will snowball the effect. Running competitions, offering prizes and exclusives are a great incentive and nice added value for the time fans will take to promote their favourite artists.
• We don't offer any banner advertising on the site at the moment and the sites that are featured on the front of the site are entirely metric based, but these metrics are easy to influence because they are pulled from recently updated and most popular stores, once you have your mailing list onboard and on the site stocking their stores, this should be easy to get the labels releases on the front of site.

BUBBLEBEAT

You'll find below a basic information page with all the sections of Bubblebeat, basically 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).

Concerning logos and banners, you can downloaded this via http://www.bubblebeat.com/fr/Goodies

NULOOP

Born in 2000 from the meeting of music and computers enthusiasts, Nuloop.com already goes through lots of improvement since it its initial creation.

Located in northern France (Roubaix), Nuloop is in the heart of many musical influences to propose its customers a quality and innovative musical selection. Originally only dedicated to dance floor vinyl records, the website already goes through lots of improvement since it its initial creation to meet Dj’s needs and now proposes CD, DVD and more recently mp3 downloads. Nuloop.com also holds gear stuff on dj equipment, home studio and public address. We’re now recognized as one of the well known platform in deejay’s universe and the only one proposing such a large catalog !

Here’s some physical catalog stats :
- 58 000 vinyl records online.
- 9 000 equipment products.
- 800 orders a week.
- 53 000 customers database around the world.

French government just passed a law against illegal file sharing and antipiracy. Learn more here . Nobody knows what effects it will have but it might help digital market to rise in France…

Nuloop now have one (small) year experience in the digital market as Nuloop mp3 was launched in March 2008. Our digital catalog is now attractive, composed of big labels and smaller ones. We decided to improve the digital part of Nuloop with more communication to become on the French fine digital music providers. In this idea, we’re asking aggregators/distributors to help us in promoting your releases and labels.

3 big axis are proposed to you :

1 – The Nuloop player :
The code for installing Nuloop player can generated straight on labels pages.
Check the right column on this example page . 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 :
We offer free on our pages to boost sales. Here’s some stats about us :
- 4 500 à 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 e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

3 – Content for emailing :
We will launch soon a dedicated mp3 emailing to focus on newies, artists, labels etc..Any content material welcome : texts, biographies, pictures…

WHAT PEOPLE PLAY

Besides What People Play DJ charts things like banners (specs below), infotext, feedbacks, artist pics (600x600px/100dpi.jpg) & -bios are always welcome and very useful to us to push things forward.

Bannerspecs are:
- smaller ones rotating on top: 237x95 px/72dpi.jpg
- long steady ones on starting page: 483x82 px/72dpi.jpg