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We are starting to push Crush FM app updates to the app store on a monthly basis. Originally Crush FM was built on SoundCloud, but we never released it publicly because of licensing constraints. Now that we’ve re-engineered it on top of Spotify, we can make it generally available.
Privacy Policy
This policy applies to all information collected or submitted on xDJs LLC’s apps for iOS.
Information we collect
When you sign in with a Spotify Premium account, xDJs LLC saves your Spotify User ID.
We store information about your playlists and listening progress to sync this information between the app and your Spotify account. We also collect anonymous statistics about which tracks are played to help inform our recommendation engine.
Technical basics
We use tokens in the app to keep you logged in. Our server software also stores basic technical information, such as your IP address.
Information usage
We use the information we collect to operate and improve our apps.
We do not share personal information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to accomplish our apps’ functionality. We may share anonymous, aggregate statistics with outside parties, such as how many people listen to a song with Overcast.
We may disclose your information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal requirements; to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or abuse, violations of our policies; or to protect our rights and property.
In the future, we may sell to, buy, merge with, or partner with other businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets.
Security
We implement a variety of security measures to help keep your information secure. For instance, all communication with the app and website requires HTTPS with certificate pinning.
Accessing, changing, or deleting your information
Deleted information may be kept in backups. Backups are encrypted and are only accessed if needed for disaster recovery.
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Contacting Us
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Patreon needs 368 (like PayPal needed eBay)
Patreon’s growth has been limited by the platform’s lack of a network effect.
Each creator has to onboard themselves and figure out how to utilize the platform for their existing audience; furthermore they have to explain it and self-promote it regularly. It’s up to each creator to figure out and execute their own marketing strategy.
Currently, each Creator on Patreon is a silo. They don’t cross-promote each other. For patrons, there is no workflow from supporting their first Patreon to supporting the next.
It’s as if each seller on eBay had to teach each new customer about PayPal: “If you pay me with PayPal, I’ll receive payment immediately and can mail your goods right away instead of waiting for your check to clear.”
(That was pretty much how buying stuff on eBay worked in the early 2000s.)
Patreon needs a network of Creators who all run their Patreons in a simple, predictable, consistent way with respect to:
What's the exchange of value (e.g. access to the creator? windowed content? public recognition?)
How is gratitude expressed (e.g. emailed thanks? shout out on social media?)
What’s the menu of rewards (e.g. merch? named as producer in credits? meet & greet?)
This flattens the learning curve within the network. Once the network’s audience understands one creator’s Patreon, they generally understand all Patreons within that network.
This is why a Patreon + 368 partnership makes sense.
368 is intended to be a tightly connected network of creators who collaborate with each other.
368 would make Patreon part of onboarding every creator, defining a default template for how creators present their Patreon. Thus the audience across the 368 creator network only needs to learn one subscription concept. And when the audience falls in love with a new creator on the network, there isn’t a huge learning curve for understanding what it means to subscribe to their Patreon.
(Side thought: perhaps 368 takes a cut of all its creators' Patreons to cover rent and other expenses. Or maybe there's an overarching Patreon subscription that gives access to the whole network.)
Patreon on Tour came through Seattle earlier this week. It was great to mingle with local creators and see the wide variety of work they do. Especially impressed that core members of the Patreon product team came out and were so generous with their time.
Some takeaways from the PowerPoint deck they presented:
Patreon is actually a B2B product, a platform. In their words: “Patreon is a membership platform that makes it easy for creators and artists to get paid.”
The onus of the conversion of creators’ fans to paying members is on the creator. The PowerPoint featured a slide with a classic Membership Conversion Funnel graphic; the gentle message to creators was, “here’s a way to think about it, it’s up to you to figure out how to make it work for your fans.”
The most effective way for the creator to recruit patrons is to start with an emotional connection to your fans, communicate directly and frequently to them about your Patreon and the benefits that are “behind the paywall.”
Fans become patrons because they are support-motivated (purely altruistic) and/or benefit-motivated (receive something in exchange for their patronage). But bonus/exclusive content is by far the most compelling way to attract patronage.
Support for merch (dashboard, fulfillment) is coming later in 2018.
Fans are not born fans
At its best, listening to music is an emotional and deeply human experience. While the aesthetic complexion of a track may serve as the initial attraction, it is often the artist’s narrative—either implicit or explicit—that sustains musical connections.
Fans are not born fans; something must inspire their attachment and commitment to an artist.
Today, someone streaming a playlist or listening to music with friends might hear a song that captures her attention and arouses her curiosity. She wants to know who wrote the song and why. As she investigates the artist’s background and story, she attaches context to the song, and it becomes more significant for her. She seeks out the music that preceded and followed, crafting in her mind a narrative of the people and stories behind the music. Although they are often anonymous, these reciprocal and dynamic relationships between listeners and artists animate the entire musical universe.
Trying to compact what Crush’s back end does into a statement. Sounds a little more palatable than “Music Geek as a Service.” (at XDJS)
3 Likes, 2 Comments - Crush.fm (@crush.fm) on Instagram: “Checking out a @jonbap track in the @Hypem Stack”
Playing with Hype Machine inside Crush.
At this point, I basically see my iPhone as an extension of my right hand,” says Hunter Kelly, senior correspondent for Cox Media Group’s Rare Country. “I’m on it from morning to night checking socials, keeping on top of what everybody’s sharing.” Kelly says that’s part of a decided shift in his job “from living and dying by my email inbox to living on social-media accounts, monitoring what everyone’s doing throughout the day.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7661601/social-media-artists-music-journalists-publicists
Just noticed this in Spotify. Looks like they're playing with replacing Shuffle and Repeat with Favorite and Remove. The controls show up only when playing from a Daily Mix playlist. We're all for this change, of course 😜
Snack Lab 2017
This Twitter Moment shows nice integration with Spotify, displaying contextual tweets while playing samples from the Hamilton Mixtape. https://twitter.com/i/moments/804728340418625536
We finally figured out how to do conferences
This time we completely skipped the panels and just went around meeting people and doing demos. Serendipity is awesome.
A last look at the current home screen before we overhaul it
Everybody wants to be a DJ #sfmusictech #thudrumble #invadermixer (at Hotel Kabuki - a Joie de Vivre Hotel)
Current status: up
Thinking about refactoring the playback UI so that tweets take more precedence
Whenever you follow an artist, Crush adds their Twitter account to a Twitter List. See what they're up to in one place. Tap their avatar to hear what they've been posting and liking on SoundCloud.