mobile apps for bands.
Launch your bands official iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps.
Volu.me enables bands to quickly launch native mobile apps that fans install on their iPhone, Android and BlackBerry devices.
Publish, promote and monetize your bands digital content, news and event dates across the phones your fans carry everywhere with them.
Enable your fans to use your official mobile app as a platform to interact with each other using deep Twitter and Facebook integration.
Leverage the GPS location of your fans to promote when you’re performing near them using Push notifications. (without bugging fans who aren’t near upcoming events.)
You control the way your app looks, and the type of content included.
You have full control over the look and feel of your apps, from the image assets to the colour pallet, you can tailor your mobile apps to match your bands brand.
Enable or disable content sections like News, Songs, Videos, Events, #Social, Biography etc.
Tailor your official iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps to best showcase your digital content.
Create REAL native mobile apps, not web apps.
Fans install your app by searching for your bands name on the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World or Android Market.
Alternatively, fans can also point their mobile phones browser to http://Volu.me/YourBandsName in order to have Volu.me automatically detect their iPhone, Android or BlackBerry device and provide the proper install screen for them to quickly install your app.
You can also link to your http://Volu.me/YourBandsName url when promoting your mobile app to fans on your website, Facebook, Twitter etc, enabling fans to quickly install your app on their phones.
You don’t need to worry about working with the app stores.
Volu.me takes care of working with the Apple App Store, Android Market and BlackBerry App World to get your mobile apps approved and ready for fans to install.
Update your app using your own Volu.me Dashboard control panel.
You can log in to your Volu.me Dashboard control panel any time to add or edit official content.
Make your changes on one control panel, and have the changes published to all three of your mobile apps. (iPhone, BlackBerry and Android)
Volu.me also monitors the web to keep your app up-to-date.
Volu.me is continually monitoring content sources like iTunes, 7Digital, Facebook, Twitter, RSS News Feeds, YouTube, BandsInTown etc for new official content you publish.
When new official content is detected, it’s automatically added to your iPhone, BlackBerry and Android apps. So you don’t need to worry about having to re-add the same content multiple times.
Example: when you publish a new song to iTunes or 7Digital, a 30 second preview of the new song as well as a link to purchase the new song via iTunes/7Digital will automatically be added to your apps with no action needed on your part.
As a bonus, a push notification will also be dispatched to fans notifying them of the new song being available for preview/purchase within your official app.
Leverage the GPS location of your fans to promote your Events.
As your events get added to your official mobile apps, Volu.me will ensure that a push notification is sent exclusively to fans located near new event locations.
So in the case of a new event being added for a city like Toronto, Ontario, Canada (where Volu.me is based), fans that are currently within around 250 KM of Toronto will receive a push notification letting them know specifically about the new Toronto date happening near them.
Being able to promote event dates directly to fans located in each city along your tour route is an invaluable way to increase advanced ticket sales.
Further to this, musicians are encouraged to send another Push Notification to fans a day or two before the event date to promote last minute ticket sales on a city by city basis.
In case you were wondering, the answer is Yes:
- Can I update the content in my apps on my own?
- Can I make my discography available to fans?
- Can I allow fans to listen to 30 second previews of songs?
- Can I allow fans to listen to entire full length songs?
- Can fans easily buy songs they preview or listen to via iTunes or 7Digital?
- If I publish a new album to iTunes or 7 Digital, will a preview of each song import to my app?
- Can a push notification be sent to fans if a new song is made available within my app?
- Can I manage and frequently change the songs I allow full length preview of?
- When I publish new songs to iTunes or 7digital, will fans automatically be able to preview or purchase these new songs?
- Can I send out push notifications/reminders to fans who live near an event I have coming up?
- Can fans add Event details directly to their phones calendar?
- Can fans be provided with event ticketing information?
- Can fans map directions to the venue directly from my app?
- Can fans share upcoming Event details by Facebook and Email?
- Can fans comment about upcoming Events?
- Can fans use their Facebook and Twitter accounts to comment or interact?
- Can a push notification be sent to fans if I publish News?
- Can fans comment about each News post?
- Can fans share News by Facebook and Email?
- Can fans watch all of my YouTube videos?
- If I add a new YouTube video to our YouTube channel, will Volu.me automatically import it?
- Can a push notification be sent to fans if a Video song is made available within my app?
- Can fans comment about each Video?
- Will the comments my Videos have on YouTube be displayed within my app?
- Can fans share Videos by Facebook and Email?
- Can fans read my official Biography?