HOW DO YOU GET PLAYED ON RED SQUARE RADIO & WHY YOU SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN THE BETA TESTING
So how do you get on Red Square Radio, Simple! submit your songs attached to an email and we will add them to the beta testing broadcasts; we only accept submission of songs in that form for radio play. Use the e-mail music@redsquaretv.net and send us the songs you want on Red Square, while we are in beta there will be no DJ's so I need you to record a trailer that I can attach to the end of your song, as no one will know who you are should they like your music & you can do that with your phone in a quiet room, if you have a iPhone there is an app or just use your “record a memo” on other phones and mail that sound file to music@redsquaretv.net. If you have sent more than one song then name each sound file trailer to the song it should follow, I will do the rest. Trailer along the lines of; “Hi you have just been listening to me/ your name (and the band) IF YOU HAVE ONE playing (name of your song) on Red Square Radio, I hoped you enjoyed it, you can hear more of my/our music on my/our artists page at www.redsquaretv.net once there just enter (say yourname) for the music and lots more”
Substitute your name and where you are from in the appropriate places, as Red Square Radio will be played worldwide, you should do it in around 20/25 seconds which will be fine for any free iPhone recorder. Our standard statement Remember no covers and you must own the rights, and in uploading you give Red Square a rights waiver so that listeners to Red Square can play your songs rights free in public areas from the Red Square Radio internet Feed anywhere in the world. (that’s where the wavier ends) This is how we will get your music heard worldwide with a little help from all the other musicians that are submitting, when we launch the full service at the end of May, we will monetise listeners downloads with our USP which gets you paid when listeners download your songs, but more of that later and we will keep you updated on that and how you can help with the beta testing and getting the word out. Once you submit a song for broadcast we will add your e-mail to our Beta testing artist mailing list, we do this to keep a record of who helped in Beta testing and to keep you updated.
What happens once your songs are on Red Square Radio. While we are in beta testing your uploads will be played on a continuous loop that we produce here at Red Square Radio offices from your e-mail submissions. When we launch the beta website with artist pages you will have your own page to load your music, information about you, your shows, image gallery and tours. Plus links to your social pages like twitter and face book. At that point the radio players will take its playlist from all artist uploads. So you will be required to upload two versions of each song you load to your music, one with a trailer for radio play and one for listener down load. You will be asked what genre your music falls into and you will be able to pick three categories. Then its up to your fans and the public that listen to what happens next. Your upload will be played on the new releases feed for that genre and it stays on that for 56 days. By that time it will have be listened to and should of had the down loads. If its in the top 300 downloads on that genre it goes to the hits radio feed and stays there till it drops out of the top 300 then it will go to the golden feed for that genre.
But it will always be available for download on your page. So, if a song on your page starts to get downloads after falling out off the playlist (lets say you do a couple of shows and include it in your set) it would re-enter the top 300 playlist automatically and be aired on the feed again. Its all down to the listener, which some artists will find a little brutal, But that's life! There are some FAQ’s over the page, but for those that assist with the beta testing I would like to extend a big thank you. You will experience the biggest changes in how the site works, some you will like and some you may not. If you don’t like them, mail us and explain why the change upset you, I hated when twitter changed its page layout. If you thought the change was great tell us that please, and any ideas you think may help then send a mail to admin@redsquaretv.net
FAQ Why should I post songs Think of the Red Square radio stream as the shop window for your music. By giving businesses and others public area broadcast rights you will be heard worldwide where people shop, eat and relax, the more songs you have on stream the more you will be heard. If all the artists that have committed to the beta testing stage of Red Square Radio to date (from 28/11/2011 to 22/12/2011) have 100 fans each, and those fans all listened to the Red Square Radio feed we would have an instant audience of over 30,000. In time each genre will have its own feed, from Metal to Jazz and Pop to Punk to promote you and be promoted by you. So how do you monetise my music! The simple answer is we link ads to the music files that listeners download using our unique software, the ad’s run on the screen of the smart phone or player but not in the audio so listener enjoyment is not compromised, but as with everything that appears simple it’s not! But we deal with that end of it so you don’t have to worry. I’m a song writer not a singer That’s not an issue; in the very near future you will be able to post your songs and compositions so that artists can perform them on Red Square Radio, so you can share revenue income, We have a number of great singers that are singing covers, most would be happy to sign your music (revenue share to be agreed at outset between parties and before release, and registered by email at music@redsquaretv.net from all parties).
What do I earn! That’s a very good question and there is no hard answer in money terms as it depends on demand for your music and advertisers rates. But as an artist or band that has assisted in the beta testing of Red Square Radio you will have a grandfathered 50% of the advertising revenue raised on your music downloads to be divided between the writers and performers. Plus we have allocated 20% of advert revenue to the commission paid to those that sell the advertising. So it is possible for an artist or band to claim that 20% if they become a Red Square Radio registered ad re-seller agent. If at the live launch of Red Square Radio it becomes apparent that the allocation of revenue has to change to maintain service, then you, as an artist that registered and contributed* in beta testing would never drop below 50% of ad revenue on each download, but you wood enjoy any increase in that allocation. *minimum song submission required which will be set out when you join as member artist.
Am I contracted to RED SQUARE RADIO Simple answer to that is NO! This is a mutual agreement to benefit you, Red Square and the listener. When you upload your music (& later, video) to Red Square Radio or TV you accept that in that act of uploading those files you grant Red Square a copy write waiver to broadcast that upload over the internet and that waiver extends to any third party that plays that music in public areas. Think of the songs you upload as a commercial for you and your music. That waiver does not extend or give licence to any third party to reproduce for the purpose of sale or broadcast to their gain whether fiscally quantifiable or not of your music (or video) uploads to Red square.
I don’t have my own music I would refer you and the song writers, music mixers and musicians to the third FAQ , but you must always have full rights to anything you post to Red Square Radio. If you sing a song composed by someone outside of Red Square Radio as the poster you are responsible for all monies due to that composer unless otherwise agreed in advance and with the relevant paperwork submitted and acknowledged by Red Square Radio. (NO form of performing rights licence from any country will exempt you from this requirement) How your music is monetised Lets keep this short, Red Square Radio and later TV will add a number of 15 second visual promotions to the listeners music downloads that run on screen while they are listening to the music. Those slots will be purchased in bundles by advertisers; they will be geo-intelligent and targeted with the information member listener’s supply when they join Red Square. That membership is a verification that, that person “is a person” as we need to ensure there are no incidents of ghost members for the integrity and credibility of you and the site. We do have a chicken and egg situation at the moment, we need to create a desire for
Red Square Radio so we can sell ad space but we can’t do that until we have music to put on the site, hence the early beta testing and the offer to artists. It will, like all new projects take time to get established, but it will be your enthusiasm as contributors that will dictate how quickly Red Square is taken up The more public spaces Red Square is played in the more people will hear Red Square Radio and become aware of the free downloads, the more downloads the more advertisers will want to use the service. We have made that as easy as we can on the promotions page where you can find how to print Avery labels with 2D barcode links to the site and your page plus other suggestions for you to promote your Red Square Page. How long will it take to get Red Square Radio out there? It has taken twitter three years to get where it is today and Facebook six, but we now have facebook and twitter and we can use those to spread the Red Square Radio word. In the end it’s about you and your music, if you sing alone you are one voice, sign with others and be heard by joining Red Square Radio to be heard worldwide.
PLEASE TURN THE PAGE FOR DIRECTIONS ON MUSIC SUBMISSIONS
PREPARE THE SONGS YOU WANT TO SEND TO music@redsquaretv.net IF YOU CAN AND WANT TO, MIX YOUR RECORDED TRAILER TO THE SONG YOU DOWNLOAD IT WOULD HELP US NO END JUST TELL US YOU DID THAT. IF YOU CAN’T THEN JUST SEND THE TRIALER PROMO VOICE FILE WITH THE SAME FILE NAME AS THE SONG WITH A “T” ADDED BEFORE THE (DOT) EXAMPLE TUNE IS YOURSONGNAME.mp3 YOUR VOICE WOULD BE YOURSONGNAMET.mp3 IN THE FILE NAME THAT HELPS US MATCH THE FILES AS THEY END UP NEXT TO EACH OTHER IN OUR FILES. THEN SEND THE SONGS, THAT ACTION REGISTERS YOU AS A BETA CONTRIBUTOR. ONCE THEY ARE ON THE PLAY LOOP WE WILL MALL YOU, YOU CAN THEN TELL PEOPLE WHERE THEY CAN HEAR YOUR SONGS ALONG WITH MANY MORE. PLUS IF THEY RUN A BUSINESS THEY CAN PLAY THAT MUSIC IN ALL THEIR PUBLIC AREAS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A PERFORMING RIGHTS LICENCE.
USE RED SQUARE AS A FILLER DURING YOUR PERFORMANCE SETS TELL THE CAFE OR SHOP YOU ARE IN ABOUT HOW RED SQUARE RADIO IS RIGHTS FREE AND YOU ARE ON IT WITH YOUR SONGS ALONG WITH LOTS OF OTHER TALENTED ARTISTS WE WILL PUT A CAP ON THE NUMBER OF BETA ARTISTS SO DONT DELAY