MOG has long provided a platform for fans to blog about the music they love. But until now, the 80 blog posts created hourly during peak times has created river of uneven content - interesting but tough to slog through. Now a cadre of editors working 24/7 extract the top posts and music news for display on a sleekly redesigned home page, and the early results are quite promising.
"Like The Huffington Post" Of Music
The new MOG also offers fan customization by both favorite artists and most trusted "moggers" (MOGspeak for bloggers). “Over 5000 blog posts a week funnel through the MOG Music Network and are edited down to create the Web's best destination for daily music content” boasts David Hyman, MOG founder and CEO. :The new MOG is as dynamic and rich as a site like the Huffington Post, but completely devoted to music.”
Some of the new features include:
- Daily Music New:
- Featured Stories: Everyday, MOG editors curate the biggest stories of the day along with related articles from a collection of thousands of daily blog posts
- Essential Tracks: MOGs editorial staff surfaces new, rare, and exclusive streaming MP3s,
- Hype Factor: Learn about the albums and artists that are being talked about most on MOG
- Thematic Areas: Music festival coverage, Internet memes, industry coverage, or other content groupings curated by the MOG editors will be rotated.
Customization option include:
- Subscribe to an artist and MOG will surface all news posts tagged with that artist
- Notifications whenever a specified artist releases an album or new track
- Weekly recommendations based on listening history – discover new music and people who share your musical taste
- Never miss a post by “Trusted Moggers”
- Customizable RSS feeds allow users to filter content by genre, source, and/or popularity and receive it directly to Google Reader, MyYahoo, or any other RSS reader.
