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MediaNet Opens Advanced Distribution Service in the UK and Canada
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | June 16, 2010 9:15 am | No Comments
MediaNet’s MN Open Platform Goes Live Today
New York, NY – June 16, 2010 – MediaNet, the leading provider of digital entertainment content, opens today in the United Kingdom and Canada the advanced MN Open platform which provides an API and a suite of easy to install Web Components for the digital delivery of music and eBook premium content. Customers can learn more about these products and sign up today at www.mndigital.com.
Alan McGlade, CEO of MediaNet, stated: “Today’s international launch takes the long wait times, lengthy contracts and technical hassles out of offering premium content. Consumers are technically savvy and predisposed to consuming digital entertainment content. Web publishers, application developers and online retailers can now deliver their end users a customized, deep catalog of eBooks and digital music with ease and a quick time to market.”
MediaNet offers a broad catalog of eBooks including the most popular titles available through major physical and online book sellers. Offered in the popular Adobe ePub and PDF formats, they are compatible with a wide variety of devices including PC, Mac, Sony Reader, and many others. MediaNet’s API provides complete control over the user experience, functionality, e-commerce and content catalog. Online retailers can rapidly implement more advanced browsing, discovery, and purchase options under their own brand. MediaNet will make available its popular suite of Web Components for the eBooks offering in the next month. To aid adoption and ease, a versatile and intelligent download manager simplifies the acquisition and management of eBooks for end users. MediaNet’s eBook customers will have access to a sophisticated real-time reporting portal to monitor sales activity.
MediaNet’s digital music offering consists of a robust API and a suite of Web Components. With the MN Open API, customers have complete control over the user experience, functionality, e-commerce and an 8 million-plus song and music video catalog with all services delivered under their brand. MediaNet’s Web Components for digital music are easy to install and incorporate into a website with no coding required. Customers copy and paste the code snippets anywhere on their page with their branding front and center. Available in three main categories: contextual matching; commerce and discovery.
James Healy, Manager, Universal Music UK, commented: “We are constantly seeking ways to expand the reach of Universal’s catalog. MediaNet have a proven record for the digital distribution of music. We are pleased to be in partnership with them with their new MN Open offering making it easier for any company to have a simple and classy digital music solution and for consumers to discover and buy their favorite songs where they spend their time online.”
Customers can now sign up for the MN Open Web Components and API for free at www.mndigital.com, and have a premium content offering with fully customizable features up and running in no time. MediaNet operates a high volume media distribution network delivering premium content in the US for application and web developers of all sizes from niche bloggers to global brands.
McGlade added: “MediaNet has taken the delivery of premium digital content to the next level. With our auto sign up and no upfront costs we allow customers to find an easy, self serve solution. The fast track process we’ve integrated allows for customers big and small to add eBooks and digital music to their website further expanding the marketplace and increasing consumer acceptance.”
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About MediaNet
MediaNet is the leading provider of premium digital media content. MN Open, MediaNet’s advanced technology platform, offers an API and easy to use Web Components that deliver a set of powerful music and eBook content products. MediaNet currently powers more than 100 customers of all sizes from niche bloggers to global brands allowing them to integrate digital entertainment content into their website or application quickly and easily to engage users and generate revenues.
MediaNet (www.mndigital.com) a digital music pioneer founded in 2001, is privately-held and headquartered in New York with offices in Seattle and London.
MediaNet Launches Artist Tool to Package and Sell Digital Music
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | June 1, 2010 9:00 am | No Comments »
NEW YORK, NY – June 2, 2010 – MediaNet, the leading digital entertainment content provider, announced today an all new tool for artists and bloggers to package and sell digital music to their fans. The “Media Selector” web component from MediaNet allows artists and web publishers to create a custom list of songs under their own brand that will dynamically appear anywhere on their web page or application.
Media Selector is an easy to use tool to offer digital music for purchase on your site or application. The features include:
• Drag and drop up to 100 songs or albums from an 8 million plus catalog of music
• Customize the list by giving it a title and description, such as “Cochella’s Top Acts”
• List creation allows you to focus on timely and relevant topics delivering a unique new way to promote an artist’s work
• Incorporate your branding
• Songs and albums link to artist biographies and discographies
• All music can be played on the iPod, as well as all other popular devices
• Publish it anywhere on your website or application
• Start selling music within minutes of you selecting it
• MediaNet handles all of the commerce via credit card or PayPal, licensing, reporting and technical intricacies
• All customers have access to MediaNet’s proprietary reporting portal
Alan McGlade, CEO of MediaNet, commented: “Artists have been asking for a tool where they can sell music to their fans without the technology and commerce hassles. Media Selector does just that allowing for an artist to create a customized list of songs, brand it and offer it to their fans as an additional source of revenue. MediaNet handles the technical, licensing and commerce aspects while artists can be creative with Media Selector delivering additional ways to engage their fans.”
Media Selector is available at www.mndigital.com and there are no upfront fees to license this product.
MediaNet at Book Expo America
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | May 25, 2010 11:01 am | No Comments
Look for MediaNet at Book Expo America in the Digital Book Zone area May 26-27. We will be showcasing MediaNet’s eBook products and services which allow web publishers and application developers the opportunity to deliver eBooks to their end users quickly and easily. To request meetings with MediaNet, send an email to sales@mndigital.com. For more information on Book Expo America, click here.
MediaNet Launches eBook Catalog and Distribution Service
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | April 28, 2010 9:10 am | No Comments
Success in Digital Music Distribution is Expanded to Deliver Comprehensive
eBooks Digital Bookstore and Full-Featured Product Offering
NEW YORK, NY (April 28, 2010) – MediaNet, the leading service provider for the distribution of premium digital media, introduced today a comprehensive eBook catalog and product offering. The advanced MN Open platform that MediaNet has successfully built for digital music will now support the integration of eBooks using an intuitive API that has been widely adopted by more than 100 application developers, web publishers and online retailers for music offerings.
MediaNet will make available a broad catalog of eBooks including the most popular titles that are available through major physical and online book sellers. These eBooks will initially be offered in the Adobe ePub and PDF formats which are compatible with a wide variety of devices including PC, Mac, Sony Reader, Nook and new entrants such as the Plastic Logic Que, and additional formats will be introduced as needed. Currently there are applications available in the marketplace that will allow for compatibility with the “iDevices” including the iPhone and iPad, similar to the applications available for digital music.
Alan McGlade, CEO of MediaNet stated: “MediaNet has a long track record in the music business with proven success in the digital delivery of premium music content. MediaNet currently powers music metadata, streams and downloads for over one hundred digital retailers and online entertainment destinations. The integration of eBooks comes at the right time for this burgeoning industry and is a natural extension of MediaNet’s digital music roots.”
MediaNet’s eBook service will be accessed by web publishers and application developers through an API built on top of MediaNet’s enterprise class content delivery platform. MediaNet’s API provides complete control over the user experience, functionality, e-commerce and content catalog. Online retailers can rapidly implement more advanced browsing, discovery, and purchase options under their own brand. MediaNet will make available its popular suite of Web Components for the eBooks offering in the next month. With no coding required and a quick time to market, MediaNet’s Web Components allow anyone to place dynamically displayed eBook content anywhere on the Web. This offers a contextually rich experience with eBooks content presented to end users in a relevant manner when they are most interested in an author or subject and likely to transact.
New MediaNet customers can sign-up for the MN Open eBook service by going to www.mndigital.com. They will be able to incorporate a versatile and intelligent download manager to simplify the acquisition and management of eBooks for their end users. Once an eBook service is successfully launched, MediaNet customers will be given access to a sophisticated real-time reporting portal to monitor sales activity.
Alan McGlade added: “The MN Open eBook solution gives web publishers and application developers access to a new form of premium digital content that will increase user engagement and generate sales. Book publishers will see a significant broadening of eBook distribution online with a powerful new marketing platform for titles to be exposed to consumers when they are most likely to purchase them. In addition, MediaNet’s entry in the growing eBooks marketplace will spur innovation by lowering the barrier to entry for a broad range of online retailers and encouraging new ways to present eBooks and touch consumers.”
Contact:
Ann Garrett
MediaNet
818-501-8499 or agarrett@mndigital.com
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MediaNet at SF Music Tech Summit
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | April 27, 2010 12:09 pm | No Comments
Sean Muller, MediaNet’s COO, is attending the SF Music Tech Summit, May 17th, in San Francisco. For more information, go to: http://sfmusictech.com/
MediaNet At NARM
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | 10:30 am | No Comments
MediaNet’s head of business development Dan Dougherty will be presenting at the NARM Conference in Chicago, May 17th on how to build an online presence for your music offering. See the schedule here:
http://www.narm.com/events/2010-convention/schedule-of-events/
Beyond the Book podcast of Digital Hollywood panel
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | 10:29 am | No Comments
MediaNet’s General Counsel Cindy Charles spoke on a panel at the recent Spring Digital Hollywood. Listen to Cindy’s panel discussion about the evolution of the new media contract here: http://beyondthebookcast.com/drafting-the-next-new-media-contract/
MediaNet Tops 100 New Customers for Digital Delivery of Premium Content
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | April 15, 2010 10:02 am | No Comments
Milestone Reached Within Six Months of Debuting MN Open API and Web Components
New York, NY, April 15, 2010 – MediaNet, the industry leading business-to-business provider of premium digital media content, announced today that more than 100 new customers have signed on to provide digital music content from the advanced MN Open platform. MediaNet debuted a new set of products including the MN Open API and a suite of Web Components for the delivery of premium digital music content six months ago.
Alan McGlade, CEO of MediaNet, commented: “Adding one hundred new customers in six months clearly demonstrates the interest web publishers and application developers have in integrating premium media into their product offerings for consumers. Recently we added a fully automated sign-up path on our web site and as a result, the rate of new customer sign-ups has accelerated further.”
For a complete list of MediaNet’s new customers, go to: http://www.mndigital.com/about-us/customers.html. MediaNet’s customers range from global brands to niche web publishers and application developers in various sectors including major news providers, social media platforms, casual video games publishers and direct payment companies.
McGlade added: “MediaNet’s rapid success has been based on providing a low barrier to entry and reducing friction so that a website or application of any size and scale can easily provide premium digital content to their users. Our customers can focus on their users while MediaNet handles licensing, reporting and royalty payments, along with content ingestion, management and delivery through the advanced MN Open platform.”
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About MediaNet
MediaNet is the leading provider of premium digital media content. MN Open, MediaNet’s advanced technology platform, offers an API and easy to use Web Components that deliver a set of powerful music and media content products. MediaNet currently powers more than 100 customers of all sizes from niche bloggers to global brands allowing them to integrate digital entertainment content into their website or application quickly and easily to engage users and generate revenues.
MediaNet (www.mndigital.com) a digital music pioneer founded in 2001, is privately-held and headquartered in New York with offices in Seattle and London.
Contact for more information:
Ann Garrett
MediaNet PR
818-501-8499 or agarrett@mndigital.com
MediaNet Web Retail Tools Come to Europe
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | February 1, 2010 12:16 pm | No Comments
Monday February 1, 2010 | MusicWeek.com
By Eamonn Forde
Digital specialist MediaNet is launching its MN Open API and web components, which enable users to turn their websites into self-contained download stores, in Europe after debuting the tools in the US last year.
MediaNet CEO Alan McGlade describes his company as offering websites a “content concierge” service. It currently powers the technology behind a range of US sites including MOG, iLike and Fox.“One of our earliest API integrations was on iLike,” McGlade says. “It originally had a buy button that sent you to either iTunes or Amazon. What happened was that customers were sent off on the Amazon purchase path and Amazon would try and sell them headphones and other products.”
MN Open was designed to keep users within a site’s pages and thereby increase the commerce opportunities. “Most users did not like being sent off from the site they were on,” explains McGlade. “This would result in a 90% abandonment rate.”
Because the MN Open technology contains the transaction steps within the same page, users just need to input their credit card information once.
The sites themselves only need to copy and paste sections of code into their site and the technology automates the process for them, meaning there is no need to manually create links. If a site such as Fox writes an entertainment story about a particular artist, MediaNet’s web components scan the article, turning the act’s name into a clickable link automatically. This can link the user to biographies and reviews as well as letting them purchase tracks.
“The good thing for a site such as Fox is that it keeps people on their site, it keeps them active and they get more page views,” says McGlade. “The minute someone reads about something, they can link to other content and go as deep into that as they want. They never have to leave the Fox site. They never even have to leave the article.”
MediaNet’s client base includes mobile application developers and online retailers such as major supermarkets and social networks.
“The other big customer base is record labels and aggregators,” adds McGlade. “One of our major clients is EMI. In partnership with us, it is looking to enable commerce on its own artist websites.”
With sites being measured on their dwell time and page impressions, MN Open claims to improve sites’ performance significantly.
“The benefit for sites is that they can create a richer experience for their users, ensure they stay on the site longer and generate more page views,” explains McGlade. “Increased time on site and increased page views result in increased advertising. Then, if the user transacts and buys an album, they share in that as well.”
MediaNet’s business model is based around taking a cut of transactions that its technology facilitates on sites.
The MediaNet platform supports other media types beyond music and the company is preparing to launch e-books. “We have a number of clients in both the US and the UK who are interested in providing music and e-books,” says McGlade of the service’s future.
Taking the example of how the iPhone led to an explosion in third-party app developers, McGlade believes MN Open has “the potential to significantly diversify the business beyond a few online retailers. Create a platform like this and the marketplace innovates. All sorts of new products and services will come to the market.”
Blair Schooff is returning to the company to look after its European expansion. He previously worked at BMG and AOL Music as well as launching music download stores for HMV, Virgin and Tesco among others.
MediaNet Introduces MN Open in the UK
Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | 8:00 am | No Comments
Blair Schooff will Spearhead UK Efforts Responsible for Business Development and Digital Media Licensing
MediaNet announced today that Blair Schooff will rejoin the Company in London where he will introduce MediaNet’s MN Open API and suite of Web Components throughout Europe. MediaNet rolled out the MN Open platform in the US in Q3 and as a result has rapidly built a network of more than 70 customers that are delivering premium digital media to their end users.
Mr. Schooff re-joins MediaNet as a music industry veteran with 15 years experience. He has launched several digital music stores including HMV, Tesco, Virgin and Samsung. He drove AOL music into the largest consumer music service in UK, France and Germany. He began his music career at BMG in both the US & UK pioneering digital work in licensing, new business, and marketing.
Alan McGlade, CEO of MediaNet commented: “The European marketplace provides a unique opportunity for MediaNet as end users are sophisticated consumers of premium digital music and media. Blair has a proven track record with MediaNet and has excellent relationships with content providers as well as the ability to identify and negotiate successful partnerships at a rapid pace.” Mr. McGlade also noted: “MediaNet is delivering the next generation of premium entertainment content services. Our purpose is to reduce friction and create convenience for the consumer. Essentially we have become a ‘content concierge’ that presents the appropriate content to a consumer when they are predisposed to consuming it.”
MN Open offers a productized set of APIs and a suite of Web Components that allow quick integration of premium music content into a website, application or online retail destination. Both the APIs and Web Components include access to a real-time, online reporting portal that is available to all MediaNet customers and content partners.
With the MN Open API, customers have complete control over the user experience, functionality, e-commerce and millions of songs and music videos with all services delivered under their brand. The API features include:
- Integration into any website or application
- Advanced catalog search capabilities with fuzzy matching
- Access to a portion of or the entire catalog and customize pricing
- Rich metadata for every song, album, and artist
- Use of MediaNet’s e-commerce engine or integration with the customer’s existing e-commerce
- Compatibility with any programming language
- Ability to select and incorporate the features that are just right for a customer’s end users and business model
- REST-based HTTP service
MediaNet’s suite of Web Components is easy to install and incorporate into a website with no coding required. Customers copy and paste the code snippets anywhere on their page with their branding front and center. Available in three main categories: contextual matching; commerce and discovery, Web Components features include:
- Media Matcher: Automatically matches MediaNet’s catalog against existing web content
- Media Links: Hyperlinks references to artists, albums and songs within existing content on page
- Relevant Media Search: Integrates into site’s existing search and returns media results alongside regular search results
- Media Explorer: Dynamically displays music-related information with purchasable media
- Media Charts: Charts top selling content to entice music discovery, sampling and purchases
- Media Purchase: Fulfills purchases through an automatically configured and setup component which appears in its dedicated, secure window
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MediaNet provides premium digital media content to a network of customers through the MN Open platform. An API and easy to install Web Components deliver a set of powerful music and media content products including streams, downloads, music search, contextual matching and other media discovery tools to engage end users while keeping them on your website or application longer to maximize revenues. MediaNet powers music and media delivery for brands of all sizes including Tesco, iLike, MOG, Fox News, Ultimate Guitar and many more.
MediaNet, www.mndigital.com, is privately-held and is headquartered in New York with an office in Seattle.
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