Social media has become a core component of every music label, artist and brand partner's engagement strategy. Social media content is being disseminated on behalf of their artists, in addition to the exclusive tweets, videos and photos that the acts are generating themselves. By weaving all of this content together into a seamless, social experience, looks to give fans what they care about most in terms of music discovery.
"Everything a record label does is social," says IGA VP Digital Lee Hammond. "By leveraging this activity as the primary content source for our label website, we will always have the freshest, most relevant content available for our fans. When our social media manager posts content to Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, that content will instantly flow into the featured content on our home page."
This new content framework extends beyond social media activity to include Interscope's latest releases and official artist merchandise from Bravado. Every piece of traditional content is now displayed in a social way, with a pinboard-style visualization and the ability to Like and Comment on each item.
"This revolutionary approach re-imagines how content should be generated, presented and displayed, creating a fusion between social and traditional content," said
Visitors can tab through each category of the site by swiping from side to side in an experience that's formatted to work on a desktop or an iPad. Each category features a consistent set of experiences, curated using a mix of traditional and real-time social content from across the web. These include:
Every piece of content is fully interactive and if a visitor stops on a specific category, it persists as they browse. The underlying infrastructure can inject any piece of content into the artist streams, including merchandise, new tracks on Spotify, advertisements and other promotions that drive fans into revenue generating channels for both the label and the artist.
The homepage features fan generated art from Sleeveface, a site where users can upload pictures of themselves using physical recordings of Interscope artists to create interesting images. Interscope also plans to accept user-generated sleeveart for each artist directly from the site.
All of the content on the site is generated in real-time through cloud services. Arktan, a curation service that aggregates real-time social data from popular social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, blogs and RSS, provides the social activity for each artist and brand. That data, along with other real-time feeds from Interscope's merchandise and brand partners, is injected into Echo StreamServer, a real-time activity database capable of capturing, permanently storing and serving up all social activity data at web scale.
Interscope also uses Echo's Pinboard Visualization Plug-in to display each piece of real-time content on the site. By injecting an RSS feed from their merchandise store into Echo StreamServer, Interscope is able to visualize artist merchandise and integrate relevant products throughout the site in a visually consistent manor.
"The real-time, social infrastructure from Echo and Arktan provides Interscope with a very flexible framework to promote everything that a record label needs to promote, while keeping content fresh for the visitor," said
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