NME.COM users get a customized version of Mercora’s award-winning ‘music search’ service,
enabling them to join the largest user-contributed music network in the world
April 26, 2006 (Press Release) --
London, UK, and Santa Clara, CA – NME.COM, a Time Warner Inc. company (NYSE: TWX), and Mercora, Inc. today announced an agreement whereby NME.COM will develop a beta version of MyNME Radio that brings Mercora’s innovative ‘music search’ and legal music sharing capabilities to NME.COM users. As a result, NME.COM users will have the ability to search, find, and listen to music on the world’s largest user-contributed digital radio network. Users will also be able to broadcast their own collection of music to others on the network, as well as browse and listen to their friends’ music collections. MyNME Radio will be available by the end of Q2 2006 at www.nme.com.
“With 1.5 million of the most passionate music fans visiting the site each month, NME.COM is the U.K.'s most important music community,” said Kevin Heery, director of Digital Development, IPC Ignite! “Our partnership with Mercora will provide this community with the ultimate music social network experience. This is the next major step in realizing the possibilities of music on the internet.”
MyNME Radio
MyNME Radio will provide NME.COM users with a customized music experience with the following distinctive capabilities:
• Access to the world’s largest user-contributed music catalog with the ability to search, find, and listen to music by artist or genre
• Ability to browse and listen to music residing in your friends’ music library
• Access to your personal music catalog from anywhere in the world
• An immersive social networking experience revolving around music
• Single sign-on experience for users using their existing NME.COM identity
An Immersive Music Experience
Mercora’s user-contributed network, where individuals legally webcast (play) their own collections of music in CD-quality sound to others on the network while gaining access to their tunes as well, has grown to become the largest catalog of music on the Internet with over 3 million unique tracks and over 100,000 channels of music available at any given time. The average Mercora user logs into the network for more than three hours and twenty minutes per day, and the average time they spend listening is 43 minutes.
“We are delighted to partner with NME.COM to provide the MyNME Radio service,” said Srivats Sampath, president and CEO of Mercora. “We believe the combination of NME.COM website with the innovative Mercora digital radio service will provide a superior experience for music lovers.”
Pricing and Availability
MyNME Radio will be available in Q2 2006 free of charge for all NME.COM users.
“With 1.5 million of the most passionate music fans visiting the site each month, NME.COM is the U.K.'s most important music community,” said Kevin Heery, director of Digital Development, IPC Ignite! “Our partnership with Mercora will provide this community with the ultimate music social network experience. This is the next major step in realizing the possibilities of music on the internet.”
MyNME Radio
MyNME Radio will provide NME.COM users with a customized music experience with the following distinctive capabilities:
• Access to the world’s largest user-contributed music catalog with the ability to search, find, and listen to music by artist or genre
• Ability to browse and listen to music residing in your friends’ music library
• Access to your personal music catalog from anywhere in the world
• An immersive social networking experience revolving around music
• Single sign-on experience for users using their existing NME.COM identity
An Immersive Music Experience
Mercora’s user-contributed network, where individuals legally webcast (play) their own collections of music in CD-quality sound to others on the network while gaining access to their tunes as well, has grown to become the largest catalog of music on the Internet with over 3 million unique tracks and over 100,000 channels of music available at any given time. The average Mercora user logs into the network for more than three hours and twenty minutes per day, and the average time they spend listening is 43 minutes.
“We are delighted to partner with NME.COM to provide the MyNME Radio service,” said Srivats Sampath, president and CEO of Mercora. “We believe the combination of NME.COM website with the innovative Mercora digital radio service will provide a superior experience for music lovers.”
Pricing and Availability
MyNME Radio will be available in Q2 2006 free of charge for all NME.COM users.
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