Zimbalam is a digital distribution service powered by Believe Digital, one of the largest distributors in the world. Zimbalam gives artists the ability to sell their music through dozens of the most popular digital and mobile music stores worldwide and collect 100% of the royalties earned from their sales.
Believe Digital Launches US-Focused A&R Team; Signs Global Distribution and Promotion Agreement with Anoop Desai
Believe Digital announced an A&R team for the US market and the signing of a distribution and promotion agreement with former American Idol contestant Anoop Desai. Under terms of the agreement, Desai’s record “All Is Fair” will be distributed across Believe Digital’s Zimbalam network, receiving coverage in 350 stores including Amazon, eMusic, Napster, Real, and hundreds more worldwide. Zimbalam will also provide marketing support to Desai through the network’s host of promotional tools and real-time CRM capabilities.
Zimbalam’s Integrated Real-time CRM and Social Media Player for Indie Artists
Zimbalam to announced that the new Zimbalam Backstage real-time CRM system and fully intergrated Zimbalam player and Facebook Widget are now live for all users (we previously did post about the CRM system). The integrated distribution and marketing system gives artists a huge advantage in selling music by integrating personalized purchase links in the player (Zimbalam automatically suggests the best music online store in the player based on the listener’s location).
The Zimbalam Backstage CRM system provides data that shows what is working best for streaming and purchase referrals. Real-time sales data from participating stores like iTunes gives the ability to understand the daily, weekly and monthly progression of sales and precisely analyze day-to-day earnings each quarter.
Artists can also customize the Zimbalam player to create an album like experience with the entire discography available in a single player. The player also acts as a marketing widget for viral distribution on social networks. There’s also a special Zimbalam Facebook widget player is also the only Facebook player featuring direct purchase links to the major online stores.
Other player features including the following:
Zimbalam's New Interface for it's Backstage Music Specific CRM System
Zimbalam has started rolling out a new interface for it's Backstage CRM system for the indie music industry. The new interface makes it easier to upload releases, create and customize Zimbalam widgets and share them on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and blogs, and then delivers daily, weekly and monthly sales analytics to understand how your music is selling.
Check out the screen shot.
Zimbalam's Digital Music Distribution Service Launches in North America
US and Canadian artists can now access the world’s largest digital music distribution and marketing network and keep 100% of royalties
Zimbalam, the largest digital music distribution and marketing network, today announced the launch of the US version of its distribution network. Zimbalam, owned by independent music distributor and service provider Believe Digital, provides artists with access to 25 of the most popular music stores such as iTunes and Spotify and unprecedented global reach through several hundred additional stores worldwide.
Zimbalam delivers transparency and marketing control to artists with real-time daily sales data, CRM tools such as email newsletters and social networking promotional widgets. Zimbalam’s widgets make global marketing easy by automatically detecting a person’s location and then promoting to the most popular music stores for that region.
To maximize artist revenues, Zimbalam simply charges an industry-low annual fee so artists can keep 100% of royalties. Zimbalam’s nominal fee is $29.99 in year one then $19.98 per year after for an EP or album. Once the fee is recouped, artists keep 100% of royalties generated from sales. After the initial year, artists are only charged if they have sold enough music to cover the low fees, essentially eliminating financial risk.
Zimbalam’s Digital Music Distribution Service Launches in North America
US and Canadian artists can now access the world’s largest digital music distribution and marketing network and keep 100% of royalties; Zimbalam offers SXSW launch discount at zimbalam.com with coupon code SXSW
