New Music Widgets Allow Creators to Share, and Virally Promote and Distribute Their Music Anywhere; One Stop Place for Musicians & Music Lovers to DO IT ALL!!
March 01, 2007
TEL AVIV, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–eSnips, Ltd., the first global social sharing site where individuals and affinity groups can share interests and promote or sell their creations online, today announced close to a dozen new user-generated online music communities, including Electronic, Hindi, Reggae, Metal, Gothic/Industrial, Hip-Hop/Rap, Elvis, Jazz, and Blues, as well as new Music Widgets, Players and Playlists that allow users to upload their own music, distribute and promote it on other sites.
This new announcement follows the fast-growing DJ and Karaoke MicroPortal community launches in the last few months. In addition, eSnips is extending its FREE storage for existing and new users from 1 GB to 5 GB, which makes it a perfect one-stop site for music creators and lovers alike.
The ability to share an extensive number of music files with rich music player and playlist functionality for genre-specific social sites means that musicians now get a one-stop solution to host and share their music, use a broad selection of music widgets to promote their music on other sites, and get constantly updated with peers’ latest and greatest music through a variety of categorized music portals.
For emerging musicians, the web is an ideal platform for providing mass access to their music. With the use of eSnips widgets, musicians can now virally spread their music to sites and blogs other than their own, increasing the effectiveness of their distribution tenfold. Because music files are actually stored on eSnips, widgets can be created with only a few clicks from a variety of cool, genre-specific player and playlist styles without leaving the site. The eSnips playlist feature works inside users’ folders, so anyone can easily click “Listen” at the top of the folder to play all or one of the files displayed on that page.
eSnips’ new digital music widgets are not just cute links to content on eSnips, but actual players that allow people to listen to unique music creations from other sites. For example, the eSnips music widgets are being heavily adopted by DJs and musicians to promote their music on blogs, MySpace and other major social sharing sites.
The eSnips playlist feature allows creators and visitors to create a playlist by simply adding songs to the list as they browse the site. Once created, they can either listen to it on the site, or create a playlist widget that they can play from any site or blog. Playlists are used not only to enjoy a customized listening experience but also as a means of transporting and playing customized music experience from other sites on the Web.
Another new feature that promotes music is eSnips customizable, animated email messages. Users can search for compelling music and send entire sets of songs and files they collect with one simple click.
Not only do the new music widgets and playlists work together, but with email integrated as well, users can send their favorite songs to friends without the bandwidth issues of large email attachments. This powerful combination of playlist and music creation makes hosting original music on eSnips incredibly appealing to musicians and those interested in hearing independent and user-generated music.
Using widgets, YouTube and flickr enabled anyone to play video and share hosted photos on their sites and individual blogs – eSnips extends this capability to music and more.
“eSnips is about enabling people not only to share their passions but also to promote them. Our first step was to enable people to easily share their creations. The new music widgets will now provide people with an easy, viral, zero-cost way to promote their work across the web,” said Yael Elish, CEO of eSnips. “We are now expanding our free storage capability for users from 1GB to 5GB, so people can literally share anything regardless of file type, as well as virally share and distribute their own music online as a widget. Content sharing should not be restricted by file type or location. Social sharing and communities that grow organically – in our case, to over 1.5 million registered users in less than a year – succeed over the long term, by listening to what the user base wants and giving them the tools to make it happen.”
With eSnips MicroPortals that are created around topics, interests and passions, users can see a comprehensive, ever-changing, centralized view into all aspects of an online community regardless of size or type. For example, DJs can tag the latest and most popular remixes, comments, new members, and favorite performers, which can serve as a showcase for emerging talent. A few examples of some of the new music communities include: Electronic: http://www.esnips.com/community/electronic, Metal: http://www.esnips.com/community/metal, Industrial & Gothic: http://www.esnips.com/community/industrial, Rap: http://www.esnips.com/community/rap, Reggae: http://www.esnips.com/community/reggae, Jazz: http://www.esnips.com/community/jazz, Hindi: http://www.esnips.com/community/hindi, Elvis: http://www.esnips.com/community/elvis, and Blues: http://www.esnips.com/community/blues.
As niche communities continue to grow, more and more unique affinity groups with a myriad of diverse interests are rising to the surface. eSnips steady growth demonstrates a need for a social sharing environment that leverages “specialty and niche” over more mainstream sites, such as MySpace, FaceBook, blogs and one file type sites such as flickr and YouTube.
About eSnips, Ltd.
eSnips – http://www.esnips.com – is the social sharing site that makes it simple for anyone to share content, promote and sell their creations and form social niche communities around their specific areas of interest. eSnips is free, and provides 5 GB of free storage to users who want to share any type of content from one centralized place. eSnips unique MicroPortals extends the compelling online social sharing capability to even the smallest and most esoteric niche communities, who have not had an online voice or presence on the web. Within these niche communities, users can share and sell their creations in the eSnips Marketplace. eSnips has been gaining more recognition as a key player in the social sharing space, particularly for its uniqueness in their ability to allow users to share any media type on one site. Unlike so many social media sharing sites, eSnips allows users to share every file type, not just photos, videos, audio, PDFs, or links. Users can create their own web space with personalized content that they can either share or keep private. The team behind eSnips includes Yael Elish, a seasoned veteran of several Internet start-ups and Nahum Sharfman, founder of Shopping.com and Commtouch. eSnips has received investments from Greylock Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds.
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