Now that our survey is over, I’m going to start sharing our findings. First up is who actually uses The Hype Machine, and then will come what your music spending habits are like, what you think of Hype and how we can improve (you didn’t think we were done did you?)
Total Responses: 1764
One interesting tidbit: Anthony, Scott & I are pretty much living examples of our most popular demographic 🙂
Wow! That concludes our first ever user survey and you guys really came through. Thank you SO much for your time, we really appreciate it. We got 1764 responses and will be publishing some of our interesting findings soon!
Winners will be contacted today, so keep an eye out for our email!
Update: All prizes have been awarded! Thanks to Prickie, Threadless, The Poster List for supporting us. We already buy their stuff, you should too 🙂
Come one, come all! It’s our first ever Hype Machine User Survey, which will give us a better idea of who’s using our site, what they think of it, and how we can improve. But all work and no play makes nobody happy, right? We’re sweetening the deal with a bunch of prizes from our favorite online stores.
Click here to take survey Survey Now Closed
Prizes up for grabs:
Store: Prickie: The web’s largest collection of designer buttons. You will seriously spend hours enjoying the hunt for your favorite ones (I have).
Prize: (2) A 12 button mix-n-match pack (pick from over 15,000)
Store: Threadless: Who loves Threadless? We do! Anthony and I can’t seem to go anywhere without packing at least one Threadless shirt.
Prize: (3) A $25 Threadless Gift Certificate
Store: The Poster List: Seriously hot pop art posters designed by Neil & Adam. There’s something here for everyone, from music-related to machine guns that shoot butterflies (if only!).
Prize: (1) Three 12×18 Posters Of Your Choice
Store: Ticketmaster: This ticketing behemoth may have its faults but without it, you’d be standing outside the venue. Get out of the house already and go see a show!
Prize: (2) A $25 Ticketmaster Gift Certificate
Store: Sony MDR-EX51LP Fontopia Headphones: For the price, my favorite headphones ever (and I’ve gone through a LOT of different brands).
Prize: (2) A pair of Sony MDR-EX51LP Headphones
All you have to do is take the full survey (Survey Closed) and be sure to enter your email address at the end. We’ll pick a random winner for each prize and let you know via email.
Thank you for taking the time to help us out!
That’s the question asked by Alex Bec and Will Hudson in their project that invites artists to respond and create. They produce the artist submissions in lovely prints and quality books, there are now two issues.
A great question to ask yourself. You may find that you can actually do many of the things you want, if you strip away excuses that make you see them as impossible.
So, If you could do anything tomorrow – What would it be?
During the past few weeks I’ve been playing with the URGE – MTV’s subscription all-you-can-eat music service. Good value for the money.
High-quality editorial content in the service is refreshing, as MTV spent some time creating, designing and curating the front pages of the site. So sure, the Windows Media player integration and the DRM suck, it will never work on a Mac, but the actual service has some cool tunes and well-assembled playlists and features. They live up to “Get music from people who get music” in their tagline. Cool!
If only I could tell other people about it.
Not only am I unable to copy any text from the URGE artist blurbs and blog posts (is that a version of text DRM?), any “Share” buttons you may find simply generate links where your friends will be directed to download the URGE software. Sure, once they do, they will see what you sent them, but ‘cmon.
This “war on sharing” runs deeper. I happened to stumble into an awesome mix by Digitalism, which appears to be an URGE exclusive. I wanted to share it with a few of my friends, but found that it was entirely impossible to buy, download or share it. I resorted to just describing it over IM and sending a screenshot of the playlist (!) to another friend.
Here’s what it looks like:
I can’t link to the place where you could find this on URGE. Ha!
Check out Hype Machine, Last.fm and Amazon for Digitalism – you will have better luck there.
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