iLike to Promote Eleven Seven Music Artists and Syndicate their Music Videos, Tour Diaries, Personal Messages and Online Fan Events Across the Web Via iLike’s Universal Artist Dashboard
Next SIXX: A.M. Music Video, “Accidents Can Happen,” First Ever-Exclusive Video Premiere on iLike.com
SEATTLE – December 3, 2007 – iLike, the Web’s leading social music service, and Eleven Seven Music, one of the world’s leading independent record companies, today announced an ongoing original content and promotional agreement. Leading Eleven Seven Music artists will post exclusive content including music videos, tour diaries, personal video messages and online events, on iLike beginning today. To kick-off the collaboration, SIXX: A.M. will world premiere their new video "Accidents Can Happen" via the iLike iCastÔ feature. Other participating artists include chart-topping, award-winning Tenth Street Entertainment and Eleven Seven Music acts Drowning Pool and Mötley Crüe.
The bands will post original content, much of it in weekly video installments, using iLike’s Universal Artist DashboardÔ and iCast multi-media blogging tools, to be syndicated across multiple websites including iLike.com and iLike’s popular application on FacebookÒ Platform. iLike will also promote participating artists on strategic locations throughout iLike.com and the iLike application on Facebook Platform.
The original content that participating bands are making available exclusively on iLike for syndication and promotion to music fans across the Web is as follows:
SIXX A.M. World-Exclusive Video Debut and Weekly Video Diary: Beginning today, SIXX A.M. is exclusively debuting their new music video, “Accidents Can Happen” (the second single from the band’s first album), on iLike and iLike’s popular application on Facebook Platform for four days prior it’s wide release on December 7. This is the first time a major act has debuted an official music video on iLike before it has been made available anywhere else. The band will also provide iLike users with an exclusive series of weekly videos, entitled “24/7/SIXX: A.M.,” which will show fans what goes into launching a new band and supporting a new single. For more information and to view the new music video and band diary, go to: www.iLike.com/sixxam
Drowning Pool Weekly Video Tour Diary: Beginning today, Platinum rock band Drowning Pool will offer music fans a weekly video tour diary. These raw, intimate videos, which were filmed by the band using a camera phone, will provide Drowning Pool’s more than 50,000 registered fans on iLike with a rare glimpse of what life on the road and behind-the-scenes is really like. Fans will be able to communicate with the band by posting their reactions and comments to the band’s Fan Wall on iLike. For more information, or to view Drowning Pool’s tour diary, go to: www.iLike.com/drowningpool
Mötley Crüe Online Fan Event: As a special thank-you to the band’s more than 78,000 registered fans on iLike, Mötley Crüe is giving away Guitar Hero III/Mötley Crüe prize packages via their Artist Page on iLike. Mötley Crüe is one of the earliest adopters of iLike’s iCast blogging tools. For more information or to participate, go to: www.iLike.com/motleycrue
Drowning Pool lead vocalist Ryan McCombs says, “It’s really cool to be part of something new and be able to reach our fans in such a unique way.”
“Eleven Seven Music and their dynamic roster of artists share our passion for leveraging new technology to foster music discovery and acquisition,” said Ali Partovi, CEO of iLike. “Our new Universal Artist Dashboard offers Mötley Crüe, Drowning Pool and SIXX: A.M. a channel to reach the most fans with the least effort, with a syndicated presence on iLike, Facebook and beyond. We are so pleased that leading acts across multiple genres of music are rapidly adopting iLike’s Universal Artist Dashboard and iCast blogging tools to communicate directly with anybody who likes their music.”
“Tenth Street Entertainment and Eleven Seven Music have continued its legacy of using the latest technologies to the benefit of the artists we represent. We were the first to premiere music on the internet back in mid '90's, the first to commercially sell a digital download and the first to sell out a tour exclusively through internet sales. Working with iLike allows us to continue to expose our artist's music through the latest available platforms,” said Allen Kovac, CEO of Eleven Seven Music.
Says Nikki Sixx of SIXX: A.M., “My new addiction is iLike.com.”
Post Once, Publish Everywhere
As the dominant music application on Facebook Platform, iLike’s convenient Universal Artist Dashboard has already been broadly embraced by the music industry and over 150,000 artists. The Universal Artist Dashboard gives artists one automated control center from which to reach Facebook users as well as fans across many other sites, including iLike.com, Ask.com, desktop plug-ins for iTunes® and Windows Media Player®, and many more, including MySpace and Orkut, to come soon.
Now just one year old, iLike is already one of the fastest growing music services in the world, with 15 million users worldwide and three million more being added monthly.
For more information about iLike Artist Services Platform, or to sign up as an artist, visit: www.iLike.com/forartists.
