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Location: Atlanta, Georgia 30360, United States flags/United States.gif
Founded in: 2006
Stage: Alpha (prototype)
Number of employees: 1-5
Completed funding: Self-Funded
Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/e7c
Profile creation: February 12, 2009
Last updated: February 07, 2010

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Business to Business, Entertainment and Digital Media, Internet Social Media, Internet Web 2.0

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WaTunes

Leader in Social Media Distribution
Startup/business
flags/United States.gif Georgia, United States
http://www.watunes.com

WaTunes is a social media distribution service that enables music artists and record labels to sell their music to over 100 music store services including iTunes, Napster, and eMusic. Artist and labels can sell unlimited songs & albums and earn 100% of their royalties ALL FOR FREE!!!

WaTunes also provides a whole new social music experience that enablesthe fans to connect and discover new music, purchase ringtones, andcommunicate with their friends, family, and favorite music artists.

 

Latest updates

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Kevin Rivers (Founder/CEO)
WaTunes, iTunes, MediaNet, and Facebook. What does all these companies have in common? Stay tuned as we'll reveal some shaking developments at WaTunes! :) on February 07
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Kevin Rivers (Founder/CEO)
Now you can create your free WaTunes account & profile using Google! :D BLOG: http://watunes2.blogspot.com/2010/02/watunes-create-your-watunes-account.html on February 01
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Kevin Rivers (Founder/CEO)
Rush is out! WaTunes introduces new Pay-As-You-Go model! http://watunes2.blogspot.com/2010/01/press-watunes-introduce-new-pay-as-you.html on January 22
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Kevin Rivers (Founder/CEO)
WaTunes introduces new dashboard updates and a brand new Pay-As-You-Go model! http://watunes2.blogspot.com/2010/01/watunes-introduces-new-dashboard.html on January 19
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Kevin Rivers (Founder/CEO)
WaTunes will introduce its new dashboard & distribution model called Rush this Friday! Stay tuned! :) on January 18
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Business model

DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION

WaTunes adapts the first ever absolute digital distribution model, becoming the world's easiest way to sell music directly into the iTunes Store. As a free customer, music artists and record labels can sell and distribute their music contents to iTunes, eMusic, and ShockHound entirely free while receiving 100% of their royalties earned from each music store.

Apart from the free distribution model is the premium model known as WaTunes VIP. As a VIP customer, music artists and record labels are able to sell their music & music videos to more digital retailers including Amazon, Rhapsody, Zune Marketplace, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360, for a premium fee of $29.95 a year.


CONSUMER MEDIA

WaTunes enables users to enjoy the latest news, trends, and music videos from around the world through its WaTV service. Users will be able to view live streams from from different channels and communicate with each other about a particular program currently being viewed on a channel.

 

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, update their news feeds from Twitter, and create a playlist of their favorite songs.

 


 

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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  • Meliza Solan May 11, 2009
    Congrats for being on CNet!
  • 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 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!
  • Bambi Francisco March 04, 2009
    Great videos! I like them so much I'm going to put WaTunes in one of our Vator Box episodes. So... that means - get a really good comprehensive pitch up there - problem with music industry today, your solution, value prop over competitors, scalability, biz model... I look forward to it!

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