YoogliMusic is a great platform for independent musicians. With customized artist pages, bands and artists have the ability to gain exposure inside the community. At YoogliMusic the power is finally back in the hands of the artists.
YoogliMusic offers a superior playlist generator, with the ability to tailor its results to your iTunes library. Yoogli's innovative playlist selections and featured music editorial offer the perfect tools for consistently discovering exciting new music. The site includes individual artist pages for independent artists who want to promote their own music. In addition it offers automated playlists, daily blog, new artist recommendations, aggregate news feeds, wiki-generated artists' pages, and social networking capabilities all on one site! YoogliMusic seamlessly synchronizes with iTunes and Apple's new iPad and provides customized music recommendations based on independent artists as well as recently played music to the user's personal music profile. YoogliMusic allows users to find and create playlists that match their music library and music tastes on demand. Using patented personalization and search technologies, new artists and customized playlists are continuously recommended to the user from a database of over 10,000,000 songs and 400,000 artists.
YoogliMusic takes advantage of the fact that unique, online content is a key driver to the continuing growth of the digital music age, and artists are now taking more control over their marketing and fan-relationships as traditional music distribution methods are changing. With the Yoogli client, we are able to sync a user's iTunes music library into YoogliMusic, giving us an instant understanding of their personal music tastes. Our patented technology compares artists and tracks to other users with similar music tastes, enabling us to make customized, relevant new music recommendations. Our playlist algorithm is a combination of proprietary code, radio station playlists, and commonalities that exist in the music tastes of our user base.
Our passion lies in connecting active music consumers with independent and "new" artists by giving those artists a venue in which to market themselves and sell their music through our site without using an established music label. The myriad of tools we make available to these artists includes: "featured artist" slots on the homepage, Blogging tools, wiki-style/user-generated artist pages, inclusion in our playlist generation database, and a commerce engine that is now being developed to sell their music.
The Yoogli community is a constantly growing and evolving entity, where users effect change in real time. Every contribution a user makes to the site is seen by the global Yoogli community. A user edits an artist bio and the community immediately digests the new content. A user rates photos and the community is exposed to only the best images. A user links similar artists and the playlist generator integrates that new information for better musical selections. While YoogliMusic prides itself on supplying its user base with personalized music recommendations, we also understand the value of music discovery through experienced music editorial. With experienced music Bloggers, YoogliMusic utilizes another key element in new music discovery and recommendation that allows the community to continually remain up to date on the best new music.
Filtering through music news has never been easier with YoogliMusic's news aggregator. This provides users with news tailored to your listening habits. The news aggregator filters through the world of music news to provide you with articles specific to the artists and music that you are interested in. This is accomplished through the Yoogli client's understanding of a user's listening habits as well as preferences that can be setup and controlled by the user themselves. We allow allows artists and fans to view up to date analysis of what tracks are popular and how they are being received by fans. Our research tool scrapes the myriad of music Blogs and message boards and monitors the consumer response for a given track. Our data is supported with Verbatims which aid in understanding the reasons for a track's positive or negative reception by its listeners. This empowering utility allows the artist and their fan base to no longer rely on sales alone to determine what is going to be a hit with the consumer.
Nick Ferrall, graduated from UCSB in 2005. A lifelong music lover, Ferrall co-founded the music site Rewriteable Content in 2005 with Jonathan Kerwin. The site quickly became a successful music destination where music lovers came to discover the newest independent music. Ferrall went on to also work with Ron Handler, former A&R Exec at DreamWorks Records, where he helped him manage the careers of independent artists such as Dhani Harrison and The Valley Arena. As a Co-Founder of YoogliMusic, he works to shape the overall vision of the site as he continues to understand the demands of the today's digital music consumer.
Jonathan Kerwin, graduated from UCLA in 2007. While at UCLA, he and Nick Ferrall, started the Los Angeles based music Blog, Rewriteable Content in 2005. Jonathan has been writing music for many years and brings his experience of creating and sharing music in the digital community to the company. As co-founder, Jonathan works to shape the direction and overall vision of YoogliMusic.
