Many people ask me about this, so I wanted to include it. *It doesn’t work if your tweets are protected.
Just end each tweet with #fb when you also want to update your Facebook Fan Page status. Already, any band or musician can create an iLike artist page on.
This is a great tool for musicians who want to save time but still want to be selective. Yet, when it comes to music artists, one of Facebook’s most popular application developers, iLike, is doing the exact same thing. Update your Facebook Status from Twitter but only for the tweets you choose. This is a great way to poll your fan base and see what they really want!
Poll Daddy Polls feature both private polls that only your friends can see, and public ones that you can share with all of your fans. If you are already using a newsletter management service and have your widget situation covered, iLike is the way to go because of the beautiful branding opportunity with the large horizontal image. *If you do not have a newsletter management service or widgets that you currently using throughout your web presence, I would start to get acclimated with ReverbNation, and use My Band on your FB Fan page. The main functions that separate My Band are the merchandise options (fans can buy merch right from this tab), and the newsletter/street team sign up box. There is a lot of overlap between My Band and iLike. In order to create on one these you need an iLike account: This app plays music, shows your Twitter feed, has links to purchase songs, etc. It is somewhat difficult to currently brand yourself visually on facebook (without spending a lot of $), but this is a good start. One great feature that iLike exclusively provides is the ability to load a large, MySpace-esqe banner. One of the premiere music applications for fan pages. Your fans will then be able to see you last 5 tweets and last 6 YouTube videos right from your Facebook fan page. I would recommend installing the Twitter and YouTube applications on your page, but there are other great ones as well.
They offer two applications from their gallery free of charge (they have some wonderfully tiered packages, but those will cost you). The people at Involver are masters of fan page branding. Here are six Apps that will set you on the right path, help you to stand out from the pack and keep your fans engaged and interested in you on a consistent basis.
While it had been all but assumed that the massive Twitter and Facebook conversations surrounding TV would impact the business of television, recent research has indicated that social media engagement might not significantly move the needle when it comes to viewership.Īs companies like Facebook and Twitter further develop already cozy relationships with networks and labels, finding a way to capitalize on user engagement seems like a necessity.Ariel’s Top 7 Facebook Apps for Musiciansĭo you have a fanpage but still not sure how to make it pop? If anything, perhaps the expected increase in attention to official content pages will help convince skeptics unimpressed by social media’s affect on TV ratings. Through this strategic lens, it seems that the main app may focus more on content services, driving users to official pages, and thus creating monetization opportunities on that front. There’s Messenger, which houses the messaging functionality, and will soon be the only app that Facebook users can use to send messages to each other (the feature will be stripped out of the main iOS/Android app, though WhatsApp is also now a Facebook property), and Instagram for photo-sharing. The functionality is also interesting from a mobile perspective, in that Facebook has been creating more apps and narrowing the functionality of each. The audio recognition service isn’t meant to be a competitor to music discovery apps like Shazam, but rather a shortcut to sharing familiar content. The Verge notes that 5 billion statuses that including “feelings” and/or “activities” have been created in the year since Facebook launched those options, so there does appear to be a market for built-in features that save users the time of typing song and TV show titles.Īccording to the Verge, the company created the technology in-house, tapping a small team of engineers who spent a year or so on the project. It’s worth noting that the “listening” only occurs while you’re creating a status, and even then only after you’ve opted into the service. Whether or not the app’s ability to detect elements in a user’s surroundings will be seen as creepy by a majority of users remains to be seen.
Available across the Android and iPhone apps, the feature works in a manner akin to apps like Shazam and SoundHound, analyzing audio as you create your status.
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that listens to and identifies the music, television, and/or movie content that users are engaging with as they write status updates.