rVibe Blog

From the press release:

Bethlehem, PA – December 19th, 2007:  rVibe, a community based online music download service has launched its Artist Portal.  The portal allows musicians, record labels, and distributors to register and manage their content and sell their music through the software.

According to Braydon Johnson-McCormick, founder and Managing Director of rVibe, “The rVibe Artist Portal is a big step forward in helping musicians of all kinds control their music and increase sales. By combining the rVibe social network with the ability to track sales and create advertising campaigns, the rVibe Artist Portal gives musicians a powerful instrument to help ignite their business.”

rVibe members can purchase and download near CD quality tracks, make money from their recommendations, stream music to their websites, and give their rewards to charity.

Check it out at:

http://portal.rvibe.com/ps

The feedback from our artists has been pointing us in the same direction:  a tool to manage their tunes.  So - we’re coming out with the rVibe artist portal.  It’s just about ready and will allow artists and labels the ability to view and modify their content that’s for sale on rVibe.  They will also be able to generate a variety of reports on activity that people are doing to/wtih their content - pretty great stuff.

And soon, it will be tied to the forthcoming advertiser portal, allowing artists to promote their work as well.  Looking forward to announcing it soon!

I’ve been a long time CNET reader and have always relied on it for good solid tech news and up and coming stuff.  Now they have picked us up and did a nice article on rVibe - thank you CNET!

-Braydon

Well - we did it - we launched a new piece of the rVibe family - “rVibe Anywhere”.  Pretty cool - you can leave rVibe running on your computer at home and stream any of your tracks to anywhere else by logging on to www.rvibe.com.  Here’s the press release:

Bethlehem, PA - November 14th, 2007 - rVibe.com, a community based online music service announced today that it has launched “rVibe Anywhere”. In addition to offering over 1 million legal downloads for sale, “rVibe Anywhere” allows members to stream all of their own personal tracks as well as their friends’ tracks from any web browser, absolutely free.

“We’re really excited about rVibe Anywhere.” says Founder and CEO, Dr. Braydon Johnson-McCormick, “With no required uploading, risky legal issues or additional cost, rVibe Anywhere is the best way to enjoy your music and the rVibe network when you’re away from home. And since it’s integrated into the service, there’s no additional work to use it.”

In addition to downloading tracks, making recommendations, making friends and getting rewards, Members can embed playlists in their personal blogs and websites, tag their tracks, and burn and/or rip songs from their library.

rVibe is an installable, desktop application available free for Windows. rVibe Anywhere is a web browser companion service to rVibe.

About rVibe:
rVibe is a community based music download and streaming service where members make recommendations and get rewards when other members download music from them. It offers users the best in music discovery, community and downloads for consumers as well provides the means for artists to register music and get paid, and for advertisers to effectively deliver highly targeted ad placements. For more information, please visit http://www.rvibe.com.

Copyright, 2007, rVibe, LLC

According to Mashable, ad:tech NYC has revealed that advertisers want to be on new media. By new media they mean things like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.  And that really means social networking and user generated content.  And further, what that really means is highly targeted ads.

Good thing that rVibe also offers highly targeted ad delivery based on user data.  Right along with Facebook and MySpace.  The difference here is that we’re building our data collection around what an advertiser wants to see, and making it transparent to the user.  Better data, better results.

-Braydon