Bandzoogle Artists Earn Over $20M In Online Music And Merch Sales

Bandzoogle, a website builder for bands and musicians, has announced that independent artists using their music e-commerce tools have sold over $20 million in music downloads, merchandise and tickets directly to fans.

Bandzoogle launched e-commerce tools in 2010 with features designed specifically for musicians. They allow members to easily add an online music store to their band website and manage their own sales. Artists who sell music and merch using Bandzoogle pay no commission and keep 100% of their sales.

"Bandzoogle empowers musicians to successfully manage their own careers, which includes helping them to make more money from their own hard work" said Bandzoogle founder Chris Vinson. "Hitting twenty million dollars in member sales is a milestone we're very proud of, because it went straight into the pockets of independent musicians."

The top 20 earning members each sold over $100,000 to-date from their websites. 80% of all sales were physical merchandise, including vinyl and CD. Digital album and single track downloads each accounted for just under 10%. Ticket sales, an e-commerce feature added to Bandzoogle in 2015, accounted for $200,000 of member earnings to-date.

Bandzoogle makes it easy for musicians to build a professional website and store for their music. Designed by a musician for the needs of musicians, Bandzoogle combines a simple drag+drop website editor with powerful e-commerce and promotional tools. Founded in 2003, Bandzoogle powers 25,000 band websites. Plans start at $10/month including a .com domain and friendly live support. Sign up for a 30-day free trial at bandzoogle.com.

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Aurovine Music Platform Launches With Best Artist Payouts On The Web

Aurovine - the music platform offering the best artist payouts on the web, today launched their first official public version of their website. In Beta since May 22nd, Aurovine have been listening to artist requests and making improvements to the site on a daily basis.

The site offers a unique and rewarding way for bands and fans to interact instantly and enables artists to sell music directly to the fans with every transaction immediately paid out into their paypal accounts.

"We bring the bands directly to the fans with no need for complicated aggregators, middle men or music industry vultures. In a sense we are the new way forward for the music industry because we put all the control in the hands of the artists and fans" said Aurovine's creators Ken Foster & Mark Szymik.

Incredibly Aurovine also offer promotion on top of their market leading initiatives. "We already syndicate our chart and promote our bands through social media, third party blogs, websites and radio stations but we have a secret 'coup de resistance' in the pipeline which will help virally promote our artists." said Foster.

Aurovine's website is at aurovine.com

Notes to editors:
Aurovine feature:
• Best Payout Rates in the Music Industry
• Instant payments to artists
• High quality WAV & Flac files along with 320kbps MP3's
• Bespoke artist pages
• Digital & Physical sales possible
• Integration with your Social Networks
• Free promotion via our Podcasts, Charts and Reviews
• Social Network Promotion via AVMS (Aurovine Viral Marketing System)

Venzo Digital Launches iTunes & iPhone Service

Venzo Digital, a new technology platform for the iTunes Store, has officially launches its services with Venzo Digital 2.0. Through its flagship services Venzo Music & Venzo Mobile, artists are able to sell music, music videos, and ringtones on iTunes. Artists can also create and build their own iPhone & iPad app to be made available on the iTunes App Store. Venzo Music enables artists, record labels, distributors, and publishers to sell unlimited music on iTunes without any upfront fees in exchange for 20% of all revenue generated from the music. Artists are then paid out 80% of all their sales every month and are able to view detailed sales statistics for their music. Venzo Mobile enables just about anyone to create, build, and distribute mobile apps for the iPhone with Android services coming soon. Users are able to build apps without any upfront fees in exchange for 50% of all sales generated from paid apps. Users also have the ability to sell their mobile apps or offer their apps for free! What's even more compelling of these services is the technology behind it. Venzo Digital introduces their proprietary technology called INTRANET. With INTRANET, both services are able to fully automate and streamline their process, making the service more easy to use. Artists are able to upload their music using exclusive encoding software dubbed: INTRANET Prime. Currently, Prime is available only on Windows and Linux with a native Mac OS X version coming soon. "Venzo Digital has been distributing music in private beta for sometime. Our customers have been extremely happy with our improvements and we're extremely excited to finally introduce to the world a more powerful alternative for music distribution and music consumption. With our technology, users are able to get the service they want at the most competitive price. All without sacrificing their budget," says Kevin Rivers, Founder & CEO of Venzo Digital. About Venzo Digital Venzo Digital is a digital delivery platform for Apple iTunes. Venzo enables artists, record labels, distributors, and publishers to sell their music products on iTunes all over the world. Venzo Digital leverage a streamlined process of delivering music assets on iTunes through two unique brands: Venzo Music (iTunes Distribution) & Venzo Mobile (iPhone Apps). Contact: Kevin Rivers kevinrivers@xeinge.com248-914-0980