Jamiroquai to release new Web 2.0 driven e-commerce fan website embracing digital and social media
06 December 2007, London, UK ---- Jamiroquai, the disco, funk and soul band (
http://www.jamiroquai.com) is to release its new website this week.
The site takes a new approach to the music business in that it delivers not only a comprehensive destination for all things
Jamiroquai
but also facilitates sharing and syndication via widgets and social
networks. Content includes songs, video, event details, merchandise and
artist resources.
Fans will be able to interact with
Jamiroquai, enabling them to place popular widgets and
Jamiroquai
content on their own social networking and / or blog pages easily. The
website employs new technologies, including calendar software
Spongecell that allows updates on where the band is and what they?re
doing. The software catalogues the bands journey from its arrival on
the scene in the early 1990s to the present day.
The new
Jamiroquai.com
website is driven by an e-commerce platform that enables fans to buy
CDs, digital downloads, exclusive merchandise and receive
up-to-the-minute information using RSS to distribute content, calendars
and photos. The new
Jamiroquai site was created by content management
system (CMS) and
software specialists
Modera (
http://www.modera.net).
Jay Kay of
Jamiroquai says, ?The internet is shaping the future of
music and I?m excited by the potential it offers artists. The new
Jamiroquai.com
site takes advantage of the internet?s growing ability to connect and
share more intimately with our fans. They are now more involved
building and sharing what they wish from the content on our site, even
creating content themselves to share with us and each other."
Neil Cartwright, founder of
Million Media (
http://www.1-000-000.com),
comments, ?The aim isn?t simply how many fans can we get to visit the
artist?s website anymore. It?s about how we get the artist?s content on
to theirs.
Jamiroquai.com
employs many new Web 2.0 technologies to present fans with the features
they now want and expect from an artist?s website. The strength of the
site is
Modera's CMS, which provides us with full and complete flexibility in updating the fans with the latest
Jamiroquai news."
Siim Vips, CEO at Modera
explains, ?The
Jamiroquai.com site is extremely flexible and intuitive
and embraces the social media culture that has been prolific of late.
The site works in tandem with the bands profiles on MySpace, Virb,
Netvibes, Imeem and a branded YouTube channel to name a few. All of
Jamiroquai?s photography and imagery is available on the new site and
is pulled from Flickr so fans can catch the latest snaps of the band at
gigs and on tour.?
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Modera are
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Million Media is founder, Neil Cartwright.
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About Jamiroquai
http://www.jamiroquai.comAfter 16 years, 159 weeks on the UK singles chart, 232 weeks on the
albums chart, more than 21 million album sales and five mammoth world
tours - playing to 5 million people in 38 countries - it's fair to say
that Jay Kay in one of the UK?s most successful artists of any era.
What's more, he's got the 6 multi-platinum albums, 5 MTV awards, the
Grammy, the Ivor Novello and enough lurid tabloid headlines to prove it.
The latest
Jamiroquai release, 'High Times - The Singles 1992-2006",
captured the decade and a half journey via Jay Kay?s irresistible rare
groove and unmistakable barbed disco.
Jamiroquai.com has existed since 1997, making it one of the world?s longest running official sites.
About Million Media
http://www.1-000-000.comMillion was formed three years ago with the aim of helping artistes,
labels and managers get the most from the new opportunities presented
by the Internet. It is
Million?s belief that Web 2.0 innovations such
as Last.fm, Virb, Imeem, Netvibes and YouTube have altered forever the
way artistes and their audience interact. Million assist artists design
and manage their website and social network profiles to create dynamic
fan communities.
About Modera
http://www.modera.netModera is a software company specialising in content management
software development.
Modera operates in over 20 countries including
the UK, Spain, Hong Kong and the USA, with headquarters in Estonia.
Backed by 24-hour support and a vast partner network,
Modera takes the
hassle out of content management with its cost-effective webmaster,
intranet, and extranet product line. Whether taken separately or
together as a complete interconnected product, these tools are fast and
secure, and their modular design makes them highly flexible.
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