Warner Music Nashville (WMN) has announced the launch of its new website, WarnerMusicNashville.com, which aggregates each of its artists’ disparate social media activities into single pages of constantly evolving media, serving as a one-stop-shop for fans eager to interact directly with their favorite acts. WMN worked with its social curation and real-time engagement solution provider Arktan to create the mixed-media website. Also as part of the launch, WMN worked with StageIt, enabling WMN artists to deliver unique online live concert performances, via WarnerMusicNashville.com, while providing real-time social engagement with their fans. Together, WMN and StageIt have created a monthly series, “Live from Music Square”—named for the street address of WMN—which launches February 12th at 7PM CST, providing fans with an intimate backstage pass to some of their favorite WMN artists including Brett Eldredge, Charlie Worsham, and more.
A minimalist responsive design puts the focus of the site on WMN’s artists’ news, while the “mixed-layout” approach allows the content to be optimally viewed on a wider array of devices, platforms and browsers. The social media “buzz meter” calculates an artists’ current reach and relevance in the social Web by monitoring comments, mentions and replies across numerous social networks including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. The SocialStreams product gives the artist profile pages a pulse and have transformed them into destination hubs where the artists’ global fan base can interact with all of the real-time content, further powering social music experiences.
StageIt—named one of the 10 Most Interesting Startups of 2012 by Billboard.biz—is a web-based platform that enables artiststo easily create paid live shows directly from their laptops. Founded by CEO and music industry veteran Evan Lowenstein, StageIt removes the barriers involved with touring in multiple cities by allowing fans to watch from wherever they are. The online performances streamed on StageIt are not archived, so it remains a truly unique experience for the virtual attendees. Artists choose when to perform and how much they want to charge. Fans can also support their favorite artists via a virtual Tip Jar during shows.
