Artist Services Blog

Get paid when your music streams on iLike!

We’ve teamed up with TuneCore to help you make money from your music.  You’ll not only earn royalties when people listen to your music on iLike, but also get the best deal for selling your music on iTunes and elsewhere.

Your music on iTunes and more: Use TuneCore to get your music on iTunes, Amazon-mp3, Rhapsody and more. Once your music is on Rhapsody it will also appear on Yahoo, MTV and iLike.

Make Money on iLike: Via Rhapsody, you’ll earn money every time your music is streamed on iLike, including on Facebook and other platforms where iLike is available.

Make Money on Your Own Website: Thanks to our new tools to embed iLike on your own website, you can even earn money when your fans listen to your songs at your own website.

Get 100% of the royalties: Unlike other services that take a % of your sales, TuneCore and iLike believe you should keep 100%. You only pay a flat fee to submit your music.

Start making money now: sign up for a free account at TuneCore today.

Embed Your Music On Your Website or Any Blog

Big News: We have just launched an iLike song widget that will make it really easy for you to embed your featured songs from iLike on any website or blog across the Web (including your official Website and fansites).

Here’s how it works: From your iLike Artist Dashboard, you can now embed any song you’ve uploaded on iLike in blogs and websites across the Web by simply copying and pasting a snippet of code.

Once embedded, you can later reorder, remove and update the songs you’ve syndicated from the convenience of your iLike Dashboard – anytime and anywhere you want. In fact, the widget will automatically update whenever you upload or reorder songs via your Artist Dashboard.

We hope you’ll share examples of the ways and places you are using this new functionality. The only limitation is your imagination.

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Update: We've had a few quesitons about how to find this inside the aritst dashboard.  Just click the "widgets" link next to your artist picture on the dashboard.  Also note, the site where you embed this widget must support javascript. For example, this widget will not work on MySpace because they do no support embedding javascript.

New and Improved Homepage on Facebook

We’re excited to tell you about our just-launched and fully redesigned homepage on Facebook.

We’ve improved our homepage to showcase artists across iLike, making it even easier for you to connect with your fans. The top of the homepage now features prominent slots for artists. Currently, we select artists for these slots from iLike charts and recommendations. Eventually, these slots will be a mix of editorial, promotional and paid placements. Right underneath is a new section of our homepage called “Messages from Artists,” which we built to call fans’ attention to your latest bulletin posts.  Now it’s even easier to reach your fans with personal messages.

Hope you’ll check it out and let us know what you think. In the coming weeks we’ll continue to tweak our new look. And we’ll share more details soon about how to get featured in and make the most of our new merchandising slots.

A Great New Way To Impact the Presidential Election

Want a really easy and leveraged way to impact the election?  Check out www.iLike.com/vote and forward it to your fans — just a few days old, this page is exploding in traffic due to celebrity support plus natural viral spread.  The page is designed to help people get their friends to register to vote.  For each person you send to visit this site today, hundreds of their friends’ friends will hit it within a week.

It may look simple: Just a vote-drive that encourages young people to register to vote.  The premise is: “Pledge to vote, win a huge, free concert for your college!” 

Here’s Why It’s Unique: Thanks to the power of Facebook and our experience with social marketing, this page is INSANELY viral, and is spreading like wildfire. More than 90,000 people have participated since we launched just five days ago. Rock The Vote told us today that we are their #6 driver of voter registration (out of more than 20,000 participating Websites).

How You Can Help: Every minute, each person who sees this page is inviting a dozen of their friends, who invite their friends, and so on. For each person I send it to today, hundreds of their friends’ friends will see it by the end of the week, resulting in dozens of new registered voters.  If we can get a few thousand additional people to hit this page today, the trends say it could reach millions of young voters before next week’s voter-registration deadlines.

The potential for empowering young people, and bringing people together through music is enormous. But time is of the essence. This could have enormous impact, if enough people start seeing it today. For that reason, we encourage you to tell your fans today about this special online event.

Ps. Huge thanks to international superstars Jason Mraz, Will.I.Am, and Wyclef for their generosity offering free concerts on short notice!  Click play below to watch the fantastic video that Jason Mraz recorded for the project.  Or watch it here.