So, after numerous hours of hard work, along with the INDISTR team plucking away at ways to stay on top of innovation in digital distribution, we are please to launch the "Name Your Own Price" feature on the site.
The launch of this new feature leaves INDISTR artists with more opportunity to connect with new fans, launch albums more often, all while leaving the control of consumption 100% in the fans hands. Artists can continue to upload music and bundle into albums as they have in the past on INDISTR, but now they'll have a new option when setting the price they want to charge for the album: letting the public decide. Their fans and supporters can name the price they'd like to pay for the album right on the artist's page and then checkout as they normally would. Fans and supporters are even shown the exact amount the artist will make from their purchase. The trend of giving the consumer more say in the value of music is becoming more and more popular in the music industry - now we’re giving that option to the users, both artists and supporters, on INDISTR.com.
If you're wondering what an album may look like with this feature, here's a couple examples:
As many have noticed lately, many artists, including Radiohead, Saul Williams, etc. have been releasing albums in non-traditional ways, and here at INDISTR, we thought it's only fair to give our artists and fans more freedom when selling and buying independent music.
We hope you enjoy the use of this feature, and as always, we love hearing your feedback and thoughts.
Enjoy!
4 comments:
brilliant looking design and I love the share code for each song, but wouldn't it be great to have an album code? Much like what your example of the new feature looks like?
Thanks for the comment Mike. By album code, do you mean an embeddable for the album cover, like we have in this blog post? or do you mean we have an embeddable for the "whole album". If you're talking about the album cover, that would be pretty easy to implement for the site. We're definitely going to look into this.
I'm really excited for the NYOP feature. It lines up perfectly with a project that I'll be starting, recording a series of weekly, long-form improv sessions. It's something that I'd like to sell, but not something I want to put a price on. This way the music is more accessible; I doubt too many people would be willing to pay for improvised music if the price was mandated.
Can't wait to put NYOP through its paces, and see if it'll work for me.
Yes Kevin and embedded Code for the Whole album or the Album cover at the very least. or better yet, direct links to each individual album like the old format had by album ID's. Happy to see where this is going no less. Thanks Kevin
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