Artist and Label Services
Neurotic media offers content owners the most complete, economical, end-to-end solution for digital distribution: Our robust suite of services gives artists, managers and record labels the tools to upload content, transcode files, price products, schedule items to go live, build and administer stores and promotions, generate PIN codes for fans and access and export sales, downloads and consumer reports.
Features
Content management and distribution services for both promotional and sellable downloads for the following:
Online Downloads:
• Music downloads (DRM-free MP3 or encrypted WMA)
• Video downloads (DRM-free m4v or encrypted WMV)
• Other file downloads (PDF lyrics, JPEG wallpapers, GIF AIM icons)
Mobile Downloads:
• Ringtones (mastertones/truetones)
• Mobile screensavers and wallpapers
• OTA (over-the-air) full track downloads coming soon
Marketing Tools
• Manage direct-to-consumer and partner initiatives including:
• Exclusive bonuses to retailers and partners (i.e. Gift with Purchase or exclusive sales)
• Non-traditional retail partners and corporate clients ("Special Products"), value-add giveaway incentives, and reward stores via Special Products programs
• Monetize unreleased and live recordings on artist and label sites
· Rotate or add content on the fly for real time distribution for Artist Stores and Fan Clubs (such as live show recordings, demos, B-sides, etc.)
· Post live shows immediately on artist sites for download sales or redemptions
• Mobility: Use Novelty ID’s with Text to Shortcode promotions (“…text MyName to 31313 to buy…”)
• Energize fan base with pre-release listening events, sweepstakes and giveaways.
• Generate codes for Street Team Promotions to build awareness on upcoming releases
• Create pre-paid Gift Cards for retail chains with Point-of-Sale activation
• Manage your business relationships with third parties:
• Individually provision your catalog to each of Neurotic Media's Affiliate
• Control pricing and scheduling on a per store level
• Upload exclusive offerings for your partners or any Neurotic Media Affiliate
• View real time reports of the activities and sales such Neurotic Media Affiliates conduct with your catalogs.
Service Propositions
Artist Stores:
• Bundling different multi-media elements, online and mobile; audio, video (encrypted or not), lyrics, images, ringtones, etc.
• Combination of online merchant banking (ours or yours) and premium SMS; includes WAP and text-to-shortcode ordering with novelty IDs.
Fan Clubs:
• Codes to unlock listening parties and special content packages.
• Codes for creating accounts that can then be re-accessed during a promotion’s term.
• Encrypted or in-the-clear WMA/WMV, bit rate quality at your discretion.
Label Stores:
• Broad store templates used in conjunction with label specific catalog filters.
• D2C sales and/or code redemption programs with corporate partners and with music retail value-adds.
• Hands-on store controls including stylesheet, features updates, and advertising.
Special Markets Campaigns:
• Leverage varied Code Redemption Campaign templates for different size campaigns.
• Autopilot features to add scalability to your operation (merchandizing one store will carry over to other sub-stores).
• Access to self-generate millions of codes for clients.
• Real-time access to all reports and consumer data.
Value-Add for Retail Partners:
• Our Value-Add redemptions drive a market leading percentage of consumers to redeem their value-add within six weeks of street date.
• Includes data capturing (particularly valuable for touring acts).
• Create and manage your own value-add mini-sites including code list generation and reports, and collected consumer data.
Mobile-Focus Services:
• PC mobile storefronts, WAP stores and text-to-shortcode campaigns with novelty codes.
• Can be bundled with online versions of the branded site.
• Upload master truetones and images from your office using our Web admin tool, transcode them, and merchandize them for your mini sites, artist stores and fan clubs.
Promotional, None-Authenticated Files:
• Host promos with us, and place them on any site to allow completely free download (with DRM or not); music, video, lyrics, wallpapers, Aim icons, and more.
Direct-to-Consumer Stores:
• We’ll integrate with your merchant banking partner so that you can administer your payment collection from your consumers.
• Use our daily transaction aggregation to save money and improve sales margins.
• Use our premium SMS gateway to retail over-the-air (OTA) products such as ringtones and mobile wallpapers.
Street Team Giveaways:
• Use our code redemption giveaway services and accompanying mini-sites to expose consumers to new music by providing your street teams with flyers and coupons that include site URL and unique redemption codes.
• Run campaigns such as “download 5 of 10 songs” or “download whatever is in the site every week” (where the content may regularly change), etc.
Live Show Giveaways and Sales:
• Artists can announce shortcode sales on stage: “text my name to 31313 to buy this ringtone”
• Record a live show, post it right after the show (using web admin tools).
• The content (audio, video, images, etc.) can be sold or given away via a pre-designated store URL.
