4 MusicWeek 22.06.12 NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF
THE VOICE UK: The TV talent show’s 11-date live UK tour, planned for a September debut, has been scrapped due to poor ticket sales. RADIO ACADEMY: The trade body’s chief executive John Myers is to leave the at the end of this month to focus on a ‘personal project’ within the media industry. He joined Radio Academy in April 2011. IPC: The media publisher is set to launch 30 publications on Apple’s digital newsstand. NME and Uncut will both appear on the platform later this month. HMV: Lloyds Banking Group-owned buyout firm LDC is reportedly in talks to buy a package of assets put up for sale by HMV including a number of artist management firms and entertainment venues that are part of HMV Live. UNION SQUARE MUSIC: The UK firm is starting a Kirsty MacColl reissue programme this autumn under ‘The One and Only Kirsty MacColl’ theme.
Following a long-term deal with MacColl’s estate, the catalogue specialist has announced that the project will see USM exploit recordings including UK hits Days, Free World and Walking Down Madison, via synchronisation and sub-licensing. SONOS: The high-end wireless home audio system developer has raised $135 million in funding led by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. THE BEAT: The influential ska revival band have signed a long-term global deal with EMI Music Publishing. BELLA UNION: The indie label has signed The Flaming Lips with a new album from the band set for release on July 30. The new LP will be called The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends and was put out in limited edition vinyl for Record Store Day in April. FACEBOOK: The social network has soft launched a new ‘Share Music’ button, which makes it easier for users to do just that. The button has popped up without any announcement on selected Facebook pages alongside the standard ‘Update status’, ‘Add photo/video’ and ‘Ask a question’ tabs.
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.com BOX TV: ‘NEW CHANNELS WILL HELP LABELS REACH TRICKY DEMOGRAPHIC’
MEDIA BY TIM INGHAM
Q TV makes way for ‘unique’ Heat B
Turn on the heat: The celeb savvy brand looks to bring big talent to the screen
auer Media and Box TV’s new Heat TV channel will provide plenty of
avenues for labels to connect with a hard-to-reach audience, according to its creators. The station will replace Q
TV, the music channel affiliated to Bauer’s monthly magazine, on Tuesday, July 3 across Sky and Virgin Media. Music videos will run
alongside breaking news stories and links to social networks on Heat TV, which will use the branding made famous by Bauer’s weekly celeb magazine. The channel will run 24 hours
a day, seven days a week. When asked if Heat would
provide a platform for labels to break new acts, Box TV MD Gidon Katz told Music Week: “Absolutely. Heat TV provides a strong platform for the music industry to launch new and established artist material in addition to driving cross- promotional activities and ultimately album and single sales in the industry. “Heat has such a strong
following with a loyal, hard-to- reach audience base. The TV
channel will allow the industry to target this audience whether it is online, in print, through social networks, through radio and now, on TV. He added: “It is a unique
proposition that will appeal to Heat’s key audience and open up many opportunities to music labels allowing them to promote their artists across a multi- platform channel which targets a very specific, hard-to-reach demographic.” Katz said the station’s
programming strategy will be built on three pillars of news, access and editorial. “For example with news
we have heat’sHuge News and heat’s Huge Week of News which is a rolling news and weekly roundup show,” he explained. “We’ll also have the best access to talent with regular celebrity takeovers and guest presenters who will take over the playlists to produce shows like The Daily
“Heat has such a strong following with a loyal, hard- to-reach audience
base. The TV channel will allow the industry to target this audience whether it is online, in print, through social networks, through radio and now, on TV” GIDON KATZ, BOX TV
heat! Top 10. We’ll also premiere successful Box TV formats on the channel such as the third series of panel-led biog series, Real Stories. Season three will feature Pink (left) David Guetta and Nicki Minaj.” Discussing the
end of Q TV’s
broadcast, Katz said: “Bauer Media is
continually exploring new
and innovative ways of engaging with Q readers as the brand evolves under the editorship of Andrew Harrison.” Q TV first aired in October
2000 and was originally a jukebox channel, where viewers made music video selections over premium rate phone lines.
Moozar offers artists direct fan payment
A new service that provides a platform for fans to pay artists directly has launched online. Moozar ties in neatly with
social media embeds, creating a ‘reward link’ when acts syncronise their tracks from the likes of YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Mixcloud. Their reward link is then re-
posted whenever a fan ‘Likes’ a song or video on Facebook – or whenever they share the content on other social networks. Moozar creates a single
reward link for each track, which allows fans to pay the artist via PayPal. Moozar partners can post the
link on their sites, in order to increase the views for the artist – and take part in the value chain.
“Typically, the artist recovers
80% of the reward,” explained Moozar lead developer Florian Torres. “The person that posts the reward link recovers 20% of the amount of reward – so if the artist posts his own reward link, they get 100% of the money.” In addition, once an artist
subscribes to Moozar for free, the firm provides them with apps to help spread their reward link. When songs are posted and spread by Moozar itself, the company takes a 20% cut of any
money received with the artist claiming 80%. Despite a soft launch just two
months ago, Moozar already counts over 600 artists amongst its subscribers. “Our goal is to bring to bands
and musicians a way to transform their views, likes, shares etc. into money,” explained Torres. “Artists have access to a detailed financial report in real time once connected. It can be viewed and downloaded and outlines the
donations received on the artist’s behalf.” When an artist receives a
donation, a statement is updated showing the history of their transactions. Collected money is available 90 days after it has been received by Moozar. Artists will receive payments, on request, by PayPal transfer according to information provided during registration. Rewards received stay on their PayPal account, administered by Moozar. More info:
moozar.com
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