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Getting Started with your Beam Album
So, your Beam Album has been accepted. Now, there are a few things you need to setup first before starting exploitation of Beam.
All settings are controlled in Artist Control Panel at: http://artists.heedia.com.
1) Your Public Profile
This is your www.heedia.com/myalbum page – in other words your band URL.
You can easily create your custom Public Profile from the “Beam Store Settings” Tab on your Artist Control Panel.
2) Your album at Beam Store
You have 3 options for your album regarding presence on Beam Store.
- Give Beam For Free
This option will let all users just “add” without paying your album to their Beam Collection.
- Give Beam for Money
With this option your Beam Album will be accessed only upon payment. Just enter your desired price and let people access your beam when they complete payment.
You may also Activate Trial Period Access (TPA). With this option ON, just select number of days whene people will be able to access your album for FREE before paying. When TPA ends, album will no longer be available to those users, who will be aksed to pay the beam album price in order access it.
- Hide from Beam Store
With this option your Album will NOT be shown on Beam Store. The only way people can reach your album is via Tickets.
How to give your Beam Album to your Fans
1) At Beam Store
There is one Unique Url:
http://www.heedia.com/myalbum
This information is enough for your fans in order to proceed to purchase your beam album
2) By giving them an Unlock Code
If you want to distribute your beam album through an Unlock Code then your fans need:
a) http://www.heedia.com
b) the Unlock Code
i.e go to http://www.heedia.com and use xxx@zzz as Unlock Code
*do not forget that Unlock Codes can be given for free or sold
Developing Beam For Android
We are in the prochedure of developing Beam for android.
We will not use adobe air api (that was our first plan) cause of memory issues and android device compatibilities (only a small ammount of android devices can “run” adobe air platform).
Heedia.com video production project
Our team is setting up an expalanatory video for Beam service. As we are not going after a major video provider we would like to work close with a creative team of producers to put this online following a win-win model.
Duration of video will not exceed 1 minute. If you are interested in participating in this project you can email us at info (at) heedia.com.
Video will have a major exposure in all media planning of our project.
Thanks
heedia.com team
USA/Canada Toll Free: 1-877-778-8285
International +30.210.34.72.341
Catalogue Offerings from Labels through Beam Platform
- The whole discography of a specific artist (i.e 15 beam albums for 39,95 euro)
- The whole catalogue of a Classical Recording Label (i.e 500 beam albums for 149,99 euro)
- Part of catalogue delivered free and sponsored by a major brand (30 beam albums of Bach, sponsored by well known watch maker brand – sponsoring appears on each album browser everytime beam album is played)
Labels, Publishers and Catalogue Content owners can now move to mass catalogue offerings through Beam Platform enabling controlled access to audiences upon payment.
Beam digital format provides 100% secure distribution of content through the Unlock Codes for CD quality Streaming (Cloud Technology) and Download on Demand. Every beam album is also connected to a beam browser displaying all relevant information for the specific album.
Labels can now bring to life and exploit commercially (or for internal use) whole or part of their catalogue, enabling access to content upon payment.
End user pays the price for a batch of Beal Albums, receives the Personal Unlcock Code and enters Code inside Beam Platform to get instant access to the offering.
The Personal Beam Unlcock Code is connected with predefined number of beam albums.
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Catalogue proposal could be:
Labels decide the pricing level of their offering.
View a sample page of Mass Content Offering here
The Fuzzy Nerds, the beam album & the “microsupporters”.
The Fuzzy Nerds band adopted beam technology in their albums distribution from the early days. Having a wide free distribution of the first beam format (known as “the Digital Album”), shifting on Beam, resulted in the appearence of a new sponoring tool for artists.- “Microsupporters” are individuals or companies, paying a small amount of money to contribute to a music (or audiobook/photo) album in exchange of a banner placement in the bands’ Beam Album (in the Browser Area).
- studio where album was recorded (ArtTracks Studio)
- the local radio station (Studio E)
- a major local guitar shop (Ntoukas Guitars)All Microsupporters placed a banner inside the fuzzy nerds beam album browser, getting exposure every time the beam album is opened by the fuzzy nerds fans.
The Fuzzy Nerds got funding from their local area and got banner placements on their beam album from
Fuzzy Nerds official album is currently for sale (1,95 euro) after a free campaign at their official heedia.com channel: www.heedia.com/fuzzynerds.
Eva Theotokatou and ION Amigdalou Chocolates
DJ and radio producer Eva Theotokatou released her debut Compilation CD (by The Sound of Everything) also availale in Beam Format. Release is sponsored by one of the most popular chocolate brands in Greece, ION Amigdalou.- Eva’s beam album is gradually offered by ION Amigdalou for limited number of people for “free”.
- Each Beam album offering (enabling free download in specific dates and for limited number of people) features
- 4 tracks of the compilation in the music part of beam album
- album creative part and a branded page (ION Amigdalou) inside Beam Browser . The Branded Page is linked to the Eva Theotokatou Blog, also powered by ION.
- Eva’s heedia channel is: www.heedia.com/evatheotokatou
Subscriptions! A new business model for labels now through Beam Platform.
Beam Platform is now providing a new business model for labels – Subscriptions!
Through Beam platfrom labels can now adopt (along with their current sale methods) a new business model offering their content for a subscription fee. Labels decide the pricing level of the subscription and the end-user content offering.
Every album encoded in Beam format is playable online (CD Quality Streaming) and offline (Downloadable Beam format) and can only be accessed through a valid Unlock Code. Each beam album is connected to a dedicated beam browser where relevant info (sponsors, credits, artwork) can be presented. Beam albums are 100% secure and may not be shared among users. Content is playble only inside Beam platform and MP3 extract is possible only after purchase of the actual MP3 file (via Online Stores).
Content and subscription offerings can be like (examples):
- 3,90 Euro/month for instant access to all new content of label X releases.(labels set prices)
- 42,90 Euro/year for instant access to all new content of label Z releases.(labels set prices)
Check the Sample Subscription Page here.
