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ILIKE LAUNCHES CUSTOM IPHONE APPS, SYNDICATION PLATFORM TO HELP ARTISTS CONNECT WITH FANS
May 13th, 2009 by admin

iLike, the favourite penalization brainstorm place with a Brobdingnagian proximity on ethnic networks, is actuation a ordered of newborn syndication services for musicians. Beginning tonight, iLike today offers comprehensive combining with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, allowing artists to dispense noesis to apiece of their online presences from a azygos curb panel. In constituent to these, the consort is also actuation a newborn self-serve papers for antiquity bespoken iPhone applications for artists, allowing them to found themselves on the App Store with a peak turn of try and resources.

While most readers belike assort iLike with penalization playlists and streaming, the assist is also bag to 300,000 artists who ingest its services to hold control and distrbute their content. Before today’s annoucement, the assist offered more restricted syndication options, allowing them beam accumulation finished the iLike Facebook application, its iGoogle widget, and an iTunes plugin. But the newborn options go such further.

One of the most momentous changes is the promulgation of a newborn ‘Music’ journalism for an artist’s Facebook pages, which module earmark them to combine their music, videos, and concert aggregation (previously artists would hit to rely on the iLike Facebook application). The assist has also swollen its hold for Twitter, allowing artists to goods their Tweets from elsewhere and dispense them to their ethnic meshwork profiles, or to gangland them direct from the iLike dashboard.

Other additions abound: artists crapper today sync their videos between YouTube and iLike, so they won’t hit to place them in binary places. They crapper create their possess ‘dot-com’ websites, which they crapper control from the iLike dashboard. They crapper gangland their noesis direct to their Ticketmaster strikingness pages. And iLike’s concert app and circumstance pages on MySpace hit also gotten a boost, allowing fans to acquire tickets direct without having to go elsewhere and including more ethnic features (like existence healthy to wager who added is feat to a destined concert).

Finally, in what is easily the large feat for the company, iLike is also actuation discover a papers that module earmark artists to create their possess iPhone applications, which crapper allow dynamically updated photos, music, journal posts, and another noesis (you crapper wager a demonstrate of the app below). iLike is charging artists a one-time gift of $99, and module also move in a rev-share care for those that poverty to calculate for their applications (the underway organisation is for a 50/50 split). Artists that provide their covering absent for liberated module exclusive hit to clear the initial fee. The iPhone is apace decent a rattling favourite and coercive artefact to enter with fans, and there’s no uncertainty modify small bands are hot to materialize in the App Store. But iLike won’t be lonely in disagreeable to face this mart – another companies same Mobile Roadie and Kyte are substance kindred platforms for antiquity bespoken iPhone apps.

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