 Feb 23, 2008 - Creative Commons successfully implemented!The ability to license your music for free at upatune.com has now been effectively realized by implementing an easy way to create individual licenses using creative commons through the provided gateway. It will now be possible to license each track that you upload individually and we aim to incorporate RDF registration tags too, so your music will show up in specialized search engines! |
Feb 5, 2008 - Upatune hunts for expert graphics at DeviantART As a result of our test version launched earlier, we realized that one way to help all of you to style your profiles would be to provide you with expert graphics and images. We currently have 20 expert designers connected to our design base and are working on implementing their graphics in a delicious way! Later, we would like to extend this implementation to specific designer profiles and incorporate features that makes them earn money on their sweet designs in the same way as musicians.
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Jan 20, 2008 - Upatune sponsored Yet another company has signed up for one of our sponsorships and are thus actively supporting musicians through upatune.com. Everytime you see their banner at upatune.com you will know that some musician just earned some money!
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Jan 2, 2008 - Release date postponed... After the release of the first test version and the loads of feedback we have received, we have decided to postpone the release date of upatune.com. This is due to major expansions of some of the feautres at the website. Hence users can expect interface with increased functionality and we promise you that it will be worth the wait! |
Dec 10, 2007 - Test version launched! We have just launched a test version of the site for a selected group of musicians and hope that it will live up to their expectations. We look forward to the feedback and are already preparing a massive bug-haunt!
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Nov 15, 2007 - Contract signed with advertising company We have just landed a contract with a large internet advertising agent - meaning that we can start to display adds on all our pages soon. We are very excited about the opportunities this agreement provide and hope that our efforts will benefit all of you!
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Sep 17, 2007 - Music player successfully integrated! We have now successfully integrated a music player as a plugin on your profiles which you will be able to style with the same freedom as you have everywhere else on upatune.com! This big step has also paved the way for the integration of a netradio which we call Uparadio™ where artists are equally payed everytime they are played!
Now you can really look forward to listen to all the music at upatune.com! |
Aug 23, 2007 - Upatune.com approved by Google Adsense After a short correspondence with Google Adsense it has been confirmed that upatune.com will not violate the program policies concerning the display of pure ads.
Some advertisers were worried that their ads might experience a biased pageview count and click-rate due to the fact that upatune.com distributes all operating profit to the musicians registered. But since we will not encourage users at upatune.com to abuse the banners and other ads - and since there is no apparent benefit associated with doing so - upatune.com has been approved suitable for e-advertising!
A very important step one might say... :)
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Aug 19, 2007 - Sponsored by gigahost.dk Upatune.com is now sponsored by gigahost.dk a webhosting company offering large webcapacity at a highly affordable price. This means that the expenses in running the website upatune.com is reduced and therefore more money can be distributed to musicians at upatune.com. We thank gigahost.dk for supporting unsigned musicians at upatune.com.
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Jul 8, 2007 - Agreement signed with money-transactions company We have just solved a major problem at upatune.com!
In order to be able to transfer money to anyone in the world and do this at fairly low costs, we have signed an agreement with a world leading money-transaction company. This enables any user at upatune.com with an email address to securely and cost-effectively send
and receive payments online – in real-time!
So now you can look forward to receive your upatune earnings by email!
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Jun 10, 2007 - Feedback update We have recieved loads of feedback and questions from musicians.
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questions seem mainly to concern whether a contract should be signed
between the musician and upatune.com and how difficult it is to sign
up. To that, we can only say that our effort is to make it as easy as
possible for you! The site will be very user friendly and there will be
no paperwork associated with the sign up! Thank you all again for your
interest! |
Apr 3, 2007 - Supported by the Free the Music Community The Free the Music Community has decided to support upatune.com!
Established in october 2006, FTMC has one main goal: To improve the
conditions for unsigned artists and bands worldwide. The basic idea is
to help unsigned musicians with exposing their music, without having to
rely on the mercy of record companies, which is exactly what
upatune.com will do! |
