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Location: Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States flags/United States.gif
Founded in: 2006
Stage: Alpha (prototype)
Number of employees: 1-5
Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/e7c
Profile creation: February 12, 2009
Last updated: March 21, 2010

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WaTunes

Where Your Music Is Social
Startup/business
flags/United States.gif Michigan, United States
http://www.watunes.com

WaTunes is a social music service that enables fans to discover new music in a complete social environment. Users can purchase millions songs, ringtones, share information, make instant calls via Skype, embed any widget from any platform including YouTube, MySpace, VEVO, Dijit, and more!


 

Latest updates

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Kevin Rivers (Founder/CEO)
WaTunes Focus Label Services, Add New Store Offerings: http://watunes2.blogspot.com/2010/03/pr-watunes-focus-label-services-add-new.html on March 15
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Kevin Rivers (Founder/CEO)
Interested in investing in WaTunes? Contact our new IR department ( business@watunes.com ) or hit me up on Vator.tv today! :) on February 27
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Kevin Rivers (Founder/CEO)
New Dashboard Update & Marketplace Review System Now Available! Check it out! :D http://tinyurl.com/ybtsz8e on February 25
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Kevin Rivers (Founder/CEO)
Press it out! WaTunes Launches the WaTunes Marketplace : http://tinyurl.com/ylljlw2 on February 22
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Business model

WATUNES MARKETPLACE

WaTunes introduce a revolutionary music store service that enables every user to discover millions of songs from old favorites to rising superstars. Fans and artists alike can search for their favorite songs, listen to samples, purchase songs, share them with friends, and much more. 

 

SOCIAL NETWORKING

WaTunes enables users to create their very own profiles and be able to directly meet and discover new music. Users will be able to exchange information from their Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and even their personal websites. Users will also be able to embed any widget from YouTube to Vevo, purchase songs from the WaTunes Marketplace, and through Skype, can sync their Skype to their profiles to enable instant calls to their friends.

 


 

Competitive advantage

DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION MARKET

For a decade, the internet has created an environment in which independent artists and labels can channel their music to different mediums through digital music distribution.Today, digital music distribution is becoming a leading tool to manage digitized music to worldwide avenues.

 

KEY FACT:

Independent artists and labels counted for about 28 percent of anestimated $30-40 billion global music market.

OPPORTUNITY:
By providing a DCMservice, WaTunes can attract more independent artists and record label using the first ever absolute DCM business model.

 

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Social networking has revolutionized the way we communicate and share information with one another in today's society. Various social networking websites are being used by millions of people everyday on a regular basis and it now seems that social networking is a part of everyday life.

 

KEY FACT:

MySpace attracts more than 230,000 registrations per day.

OPPORTUNITY:

By creating a social networking environment, WaTunes can attract new consumers to quickly find and listen to music as well as sharing music with friends.

 

Management Bio

KEVIN RIVERS (Founder/CEO)

Kevin Rivers is the Founder and CEO of the social media distributionservice WaTunes.com. Kevin was first introduce to music at the age of 3when he was set in a room with his first mini-size keyboard and drumsets. Over those years. Kevin began to learn how to produce new soundsby ear as well as reading and writing music at an early age. In 1994,at age 9, Kevin won his first awards at an Elementary School TalentShow in which He has demonstrated his piano skills. In 2000, Kevin wasintroduce to Electronic & Techno music. From there, he honed hisskills to produce many innovative sounds from the genre to please theears of those that listen. Today, Kevin is able to produce any genre ofmusic from Jazz, Latin, Salsa, Reggae, and Reggaeton, to Dance, House,Electro, Drum ‘n’ Bass, Club, Techno, and Trance. Kevin is very diversein regards to his music production, sound recording, and songwriting.Kevin also studies Business Administration & Management at DeVryUniversity.

 

 

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  • Rachel Mullins March 06, 2010
    Sorry about the few typos as well. I'm a journalist so I type pretty fast. hehe
  • Rachel Mullins March 06, 2010
    Kevin Rivers is a very charismatic, charming, intelligent, and honorable man! I've been watching Watunes for 2 years now. From the last time I checked it out I was impressed, but now it appears Watunes has undergone some serious renovations! What I love about this company is not only is it catering to the Musicians out there, but for the Fans, and Socialites as well. It's so new, so vivid, so exciting my words can't even express I'm so impressed! 2010 will mark a new era for technology ranging from cars, cellphones, computers, and digital technology "as well as digital media of course!" I truly believe that Watunes.com will be high up on the latter of one of the most innovative, promising, and highly anticipated company the world has not idea will hit them. Keep up the good work Kevin Rivers and the entire Watunes team! Kevin Rivers is also a very handsome individual as well. Good Luck!
  • michael dobbson March 06, 2010
    To any investors out there watching this company. I highly advise you do some serious consideration is this company appears to be the underdogs of innovation in the digital world. True innovation has multi-million dollar potential, and this company has just that. We all know it's hard to invest in companies especially in the times we live, over coming the recession and all, but this is something to seriously consider. Watunes.com has million dollar potential, it just needs some backing.
  • Frank Jaeger March 06, 2010
    Watunes.com is such an amazing site!!! I've been involved with Watunes for quite a bit and I must say I am very impressed! As an Independent Artist, Watunes has brought me joy to not only myself but my friends and family as well.. P.S. this posting nearly brought me to tears it's surreal!
  • Daniel Jones March 06, 2010
    I love your idea Kevin Rivers. I can see a very promising and successful venture coming out of this company. Keep up the good work! I'll be watching ;)
  • Makell Bird March 04, 2010
    Kevin Rivers is a con-artist. About 1,000 people who have signed up with WaTunes have NOT been paid! DO NOT SIGN UP WITH WATUNES! It is a scam to steal your royalties!!!
  • Kevin Rivers March 16, 2009
    Hi Bambi,

    I'm glad you liked our video. Amie Street is actually one of our partners that we work with to aggregate our music artists and record labels contents. WaTunes is a service that personally caters to musicians and fans alike. I look forward to hearing from you soon and hope to see it available on a Vator Box episode soon. :)
  • Bambi Francisco Roizen March 16, 2009
    Very creative. It's definitely an engaging way to get people watching and listening! Nice job. But there is a sophisticated crowd on Vator that might want to know more about how your service works. I know of iLike, Amy Street, Pandora, just to name a few of the music services online. Does your service help independent musicians? Does your service help people discover new artists? Can you add in your pitch, "this kind of user uses this service because of xyz, and WaTunes makes money because of xzy" - those are the other things you might want to add to your pitch.

    If you can't add this, don't worry, what you uploaded was great!
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