Sonific is making its SongsSpot song streaming music widget available at no cost to all record labels to make their catalogs available for streaming on social network sites. Ecommerce functionality will be provided by
iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, Wippit and others.
With Sonific, content providers share in ad revenue and can have a single channel to enable viral exposure on all key online communities and social media including Facebook, Wordpress, Myspace, Friendster, Hi5, Xanga, Orkut, Typepad, Vox.com, Livejournal, iGoogle,Google Gadgets, Netvibes, Blogger, AIM Pages and Live.com. The goal is that with a single click, music companies will soon be able to connect to 100s of platforms and present their music on what Sonific believes will become the next iteration of radio - social networks.
"As predicted for some time now, the music business is getting ready to switch to an open-access
policy, and this will lead to an explosion of tremendous new
opportunities,with the most lucrative turf being Music on Social
Networks. Any site, portal or community can now become a music
retailer, without having to add costly and ubiquitously hated copy
protection measures, and therefore online communities stand to become
even more important, very soon. In fact, I would predict that Social
Media will become as important as Radio was back in the old days of
Vinyl and CDs, which is why Sonific is gearing up
to become something akin to the Music Operating System for this new
turf," states Gerd Leonhard, author, music futurist and CEO of Sonific
LLC.
Here is an example of a SongSpot widget:
