MTV Taking to Social Networking

Whenever an artists arrives in marketing her at Tate Music Group one of their questions is "How do I create a buzz"? The simple answer is to network your butt off. TMG always emphasizes the importance of social networking...blogs, twitter, myspace, facebook etc...

Tate Music Group understands how important these networks are for artists that our production team goes as far as building and designing these sites for all of our guys so that they have a professional page to direct family, friends and fans too.

In a recent article in Billboard it looks like MTV understands the importance and power of social networking and wants to create an outlet where fans can follow artists and keep up with all of their network sites.

"MTV Networks wants to establish its Web properties as the go-to outlets for fans to track all of their favorite artists’ social media activities.

MTV executives said the initiative is aimed at "super-serving" music enthusiasts that expect back-and-forth relationships with their favorite performers, while enabling fans to foster those relationships in a single locale."

Bands that know how to work!

Driven Cure is a band that knows how to work. They fit the Chuck Tilley, Jim Halsey, Jim Mazza approach that hard work pays off. These guys are not sitting back on their heels waiting for things to happen for them. They actively pursue every event they can book. Sometimes those events take the CA based band to great places. For instance Driven Cure just finished playing last week in Oahu HI at the "Stand for Life" concert. I received an email from them this morning that the show went very well. There were about 600 people in attendance and they sold 120 CD's in 45 minutes. Essentially 20% of the people in attendance bought a CD. That is great news, but not surprising.

Everyone here at TMG is very excited to see what happens in 2010 for the band! www.myspace.com/drivencure