In this blog I try to keep you up to date about the music industry and the opportunities of internet technologies and sometimes I write lengthy Dutch opinion posts about the copyright debate that currently is going on in Belgium. At the same time, however, I am working on a technological platform that aims to help my fellow artists: Motion Music Manager.
Motion Music Manager is the online dashboard for the self-promoting musician. It tries to solve the problem of the defragmentation of an artist’s online identity. On the dashboard of Motion Music Manager you can publish new content to all your social network profiles and you can measure the impact of your actions via statistics.
We have been in private beta for two months now. We offer statistics about MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Last.fm and Twitter and the last weeks we have been working on a Twitter module and the ability to send status updates to Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. More features will follow.
Here you can see some screenshots:
We are still open for users who want to be invited to test the private beta version. Please contact me at hilke@mmmotion.com. We are eager to hear your feedback!
I dislike MySpace music. MySpace is too dirty with spam; I saw that some tools like this one: MySpace Music Plays Increaser allow so called musicians to get popularity on MySpace with black advertising. I think that really cool musician doesn’t need black advertising, it will be popular anyway, event without fake plays. So if MySpace is full with black web promotion, it is place of bad musicians. It is my opinion. waste only
Thanks for your comment, Alex.
I agree that tools to increase your plays or whatever are a bad idea. Authenticity is very important asset in managing your online identity and cheating would be a very wrong step to take.
I also think that the haydays of MySpace are over. It used to be the most important social network where people discover music, although the user experience on the site was far from perfect, to say the least.
Since the advent of Facebook, people started leaving MySpace, probably because the social networking part worked better on that site. The bound with music, however, was never that intense on Facebook. That’s why I believe that MySpace is still important for musicians. As an artist, you can’t afford to have no MySpace profile. For lots of people it’s still the first place where they go to listen to your music. But I wouldn’t spend much time on searching for new fans on MySpace. Just keep your content up to date and communicate with the fans who address you on MySpace.
MySpace has some plans to revive their platform and they will focus even more on music. I’m curious what it will bring.