GrooveShark Marketing!

Our partner GrooveShark has prepared a very in-depth PDF that explains what you can do to promote your material via the brand. GrooveShark is a streaming partner of ours and is one of the largest providers in the world with millions of tracks available for streaming via an ad based system. Click here to view the PDF to market your material via the brand!

AudioJelly Marketing

Featured Release Banners
Each label can send in a featured release banner for consideration along with filling out the featured release form. All you have to do is send over a 189×92 JPG release banner and send it directly to AudioJelly and they will consider posting them via their Homepage and Genre Page!

Label Top 10′s
AudioJelly welcomes labels and artists to enter in their own charts, videos, gig dates, and much more to promote their releases and social networking websites. If you’d like an artist login, contact us and we will send to AudioJelly so they can email you the details directly! Each artist would be able to login via www.audiojelly.com/login

TrackItDown Marketing!

Our good friends over at Trackitdown have prepared a very useful page to Market your releases on their brand! Check out some of the great resources available to all labels for the promotion of their content.

Trackitdown stats at a glance
350,000 registered members.
100,000 unique visitors per week.
Newsletters sent twice a week to over 100,000 subscribers.
Tracks sold in over 170 international territories.

Sharing Releases On Facebook With The Trackitdown Player
Post any track URL from a release on Facebook and your friends and fans will be able to preview the audio of all tracks on the release without leaving Facebook via the embedded Trackitdown player. This full-length preview player behaves exactly the same way as it does within the full site. To see this in action please visit their Facebook page

DJ, Artist, and User Generated Charts and Playlists
It’s never been easier to create Charts and Playlists to promote and share new releases both on and off site. Simply visit: www.trackitdown.net/create-chart! Charts / Playlists can be created from tracks that have added to a users basket or from tracks loaded into the player. Once created you are given a direct link that can be shared on Facebook. Additionally TID have also given you the function to embed Charts / Playlists on your website, blog, myspace profile or any other page that excepts HTML. These come in three handy sizes.

Social Network Reach
TID regularly post releases, DJ charts, interviews and news across their social networks, which include:

Facebook
Trackitdown = 34,790 people like this

DJ Mag Top 100 DJs
Poll powered by Trackitdown = 134,120 people like this

Twitter
11,935 people following this

Guest Reviewer Slots
Every week TID features a brand new Guest Reviewer, which consists of a short interview followed by 10 tracks of their choice from the Trackitdown catalogue with up to a 100 words on why they chose that track. These are some of their most visited and shared pages on the site and has so far included Ferry Corsten, Sander Van Doorn, Nic Fanciulli, Doctor P, Norman Jay, MYNC, Timo Maas, Sean Tyas, Friction, DJ Hype, Stefano Noferini, Camo & Krooked, Steve Lawler, Groove Armada, and many more… View a sample of Steve Lawler Reviewing!

Features
The content team pull out and feature over 15,000 tracks a year across our 10 key genres. These include handwritten reviews plus relevant track information we may have received. (Every Symphonic Distribution label can fill out a Feature Request via the Content Portal for their release! We will send this right over to TID!)

Press Releases and DJ Feedback sheets!
Through the official Symphonic Distribution feature release form, you can list information about your product and include a press release (if available) plus key DJ support and feedback. This is included in TID’s customer facing features and helps increase interest and sales.

Exclusives
Get a higher return rate during the exclusive period. Set your release to be exclusive on TID!

TID Pro
TID Pro is the new membership account designed for DJs costing £10 a month. Check it out at www.trackitdown.net/pro Becoming a TID Pro Member brings huge savings on MP3 and WAV singles reducing them to cost price of £0.79 per MP3 and £0.99 per WAV. These massive savings allow customers to buy more of the music they love whilst continuing to support the artists and labels, as the royalty return is not affected by the discount.

Priority Strips
Each genre page features 3 priority strips highlighting key releases selected by the content team. These significantly increase exposure to visiting users. Once again, by filling out a featured release form through Symphonic, we will send to TID for consideration.

Home Page Priority Panels
There are 8 Front-page panels where TID feature high priority releases, Charts / Playlist and features such as Guest Reviewer giving maximum visibility to users landing on our homepage. Once again, by filling out a featured release form through Symphonic, we will send to TID for consideration.

Merchandise
We currently hold the world’s largest range branded music merchandise. Monetize your fan base via a range of merchandise options that include T-Shirt, Hoodies, and Banners sold at competitive prices.

Free Leaderboard Banner Promotion
Send us your header banner linking to your release on Trackitdown and we will host free of charge for 2 weeks from release date. Banners considerably increase the visibility of releases across site and should include eye-catching artwork and headline DJ support.

Banner Spec
- Dimensions: 728×90 pixels (standard leaderboard dimensions).
- Format: Flash or animated GIF.

All Flash Banners should be:
- No more than 50 kilobytes in file size.
- Compiled as a .swf file.
- Linking to either track, artist or label page, with a link target of “_parent”.
- Given an object as the background and not relying on the canvas colour, as they will be displayed with a transparent background on the site, so will not display correctly if they rely on the canvas.

All Animated GIF banners should be:
- No more than 30 kilobytes in file size.
- Provided with the appropriate link to a track, album, artist or label page.

Remix and Search For Talent Competitions
TID has run a series of highly successful competitions giving up and coming producers the chance to remix and work with some of the world’s top flight artists and record labels. All of their remix competitions are free to enter and the parts always free to download. Where possible, competition winners are given the chance to collaborate with the artist whose track they remixed with their winning remix given an official release and an unparalleled boost to their flourishing music career. These competitions bring high profile exposure to all artists and labels involved.

Beatport Marketing

Want to promote your label, releases, and artists on Beatport? No problem! Here are some helpful websites for you to check out. In addition, we offer the ability to submit a Featured Release Form that helps your chances of being featured on the brand. Contact Us for more information.

DJ Charts
If you’d like to get a DJ Chart done on the website, Click Here. All on screen instructions must be followed carefully and Beatport will be in direct communication with you in regards to the chart. In addition to the form that you must fill out, you must provide a professional artist picture in the size of 500×500 JPG.

Artist Pages
Every artist has the possibility of getting an artist page on the website. The requirements are basic but very important. First, the photograph MUST BE a professional artist photograph. With that done, the size of the photo needs to be 590×404 JPG. If these two requirements are met, and you have music being sold on Beatport, then you can visit this website to submit your artist picture. The same procedure must be done if you wish to change.

Top 100 Chart Tracking
This handy tool we stumbled on, http://www.beattracker.com is a great way for Artists and Labels to see where they are charting each and every day! Great for being able to determine if the marketing you are doing is working and just plain a great way to document and save time.

Featured Release Consideration
Every record label wonders about how to get their material promoted on Beatport’s pages. Unfortunately, you cannot pay to have an advertisement on the webpage however, you can fill out a Featured Release form for consideration. Even after that, its not guaranteed but your chances will increase. The form is available in the Content Portal. We will not only send this form to Beatport but to other retailers as well! It’s important to be professional on this form and retailers would like to see a good biography, Soundcloud preview links, and feedbacks from DJs, Producers, and more!

Banner Generator – http://promote.beatport.com
The Beatport Banner Generator is a simple tool that gives any artist or label assets to promote their music. The process couldn’t be easier and the results are undeniable. The banner ads can be placed on Websites, HTML Newsletters, and many more places accepting HTML.

Flash Player – http://www.beatportplayer.com
One of the more popular marketing offerings of Beatport.com is their Flash Player. You can create a player for DJ Charts, Artists, Releases, Labels, and more! The player can be ingested on Social Networks such as MySpace, blogs, and websites.

Beatportal – http://www.beatportal.com
Beatportal aims to be the world’s best electronic music blog and resource. The blog offers up-to-the-minute news about electronic music, informed music recommendations, DJ technology news, remix competitions with top artists and labels, and live blogging coverage from the most important artist tours and industry events. Beatportal’s Beatwiki – an index of thousands of artists and record labels – is the biggest publicly editable database for electronic music available online.

DJ-Tunes Marketing

DJTUNES is one of the first European dance music download portals. Designed to serve the needs of the club culture of the future, music fans and professionals can legally download and listen to a growing library of DRM free house, techno, minimal, trance, electro tracks and much more. All Symphonic Distribution clients producing and releasing Dance music have the capability of getting their material on the brand and with that, can take advantage of the various promotional aspects of the website.

Artist & Label Pages:
Each artist and label can be granted their very own page. If you are an artist, send over a 800×800 JPG image of yourself and a brief biography. For labels, you too can send us a 800×800 JPG image with a bio and we will get it over to the DJTUNES staff for your page to be created.

DJ Charts
If you are an artist interested in getting his or her own DJ Chart up on the retailer, download this form, and email our marketing department a professional picture and we will get your chart for inclusion into their brand.

Social Network Promotion:
Artist and labels can share tracks, releases, label or artist pages with just one click to Facebook, Twitter, and/or MySpace. They can use the share button in nearly every aspect of the website.

Links:
The website is built in HTML5 allowing you get direct links to label or artist pages, releases, and much more. Below are some examples of these various links which can be placed on Social Networks, HTML Newsletters and much more.

http://www.djtunes.com/gianni-coletti/gimme-fantasy-2011-gianni-coletti
http://www.djtunes.com/wally-lopez
http://www.djtunes.com/label/music-worx

Feature Form Request:
A label can fill out our free to use Featured Release Form and we will go ahead and deliver it to DJTUNES and other retailers for possible Featured Release consideration.

DIY Releasing / Promo:
DJTUNES members are also given the opportunity to add their own productions to the DJTUNES catalogue and to interact with likeminded individuals through built-in social media features, enabling them to promote and sell their tracks directly to their audience. Users from all over the globe are taking advantage of DJTUNES’ innovative features, convenient handling and large variety of high quality dance music content.

Promote Symphonic!

We take great pride in promoting you on our website, social networks, and brands Noiseporn.com, EverythingMedia.com, and JamVana.com. If you want to return the favor, below you fill find our logo and other marketing related images that you are free to put up wherever you’d like. This is definitely not mandatory but it doesn’t hurt to ask! Click on each image to view the full file available for download.

iTunes Marketing

iTunes is one of the most popular brands in the world. Ran and operated by the little known tech company Apple (sarcasm), the iTunes Store has redefined what the Digital Music Industry is and where it can go launching careers of many musicians, brands, and companies. Through Symphonic Distribution, you can get your music on there quite easily but how do you go about marketing the music via the brand? In addition to the tips below, we also found this pretty helpful post that will help you think differently when it comes to marketing your material via the retail giant. Click here to read and enjoy the marketing tools available!

Build Widgets / Players – Click Here!
With Widget Builder, you can easily add interactive widgets to your website or blog. These widgets allow users to explore your music, preview songs, and find albums from iTunes. Users can also discover apps from the App Store—all without leaving your site.

iTunes Affiliate Program
The iTunes, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store Affiliate Program provides a unique way for your website or app to link to millions of songs and thousands of apps, as well as books, Hollywood movies, TV shows, music videos, games, audiobooks, and podcasts. You’ll earn a commission on all qualifying sales. Click here for details!

Redirect URLs
Make it easier for people to find your content by using a redirect URL. These links can be used on the web, for TV, and in print and are available for music, TV, movies, and apps. As long as your content is available on iTunes or the App Store, you can use a redirect URL. When customers click or type your redirect URL, iTunes or the App Store instantly opens. (This is only valid for artists no label pages and/or label searches can be done via iTunes)

Examples
U2 – http://www.itunes.com/U2
24 – http://www.itunes.com/tv/24
Wall.E – http://www.itunes.com/movies/wall-e
Tetris – http://www.itunes.com/apps/tetris

Direct Links To Releases – Click Here!/
With Link Maker, you can create links to content on the iTunes Store, the App Store, the iBookstore, and the Mac App Store, and then place those links on your website or within your app. We use this daily for our iTunes Picks Of The Day and more!

WasaBeat DJ CHarts!

Our good friends over at Wasabeat sent over an EXCEL sheet below that we thought we’d go ahead and toss it over to you as well. In order to get a DJ Chart you need to do the following below! Please follow carefully but if you are stuck feel free to hit up our Marketing department for more!

Instructions:
1.Download this Excel Document
2.Fill out in its entirety
3.Provide a 600×600 Artist JPG Picture
4.Email all of this to label@wasabeat.com