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Entries in Ad Supported (17)

Free All Music - Ad-supported music downloads

Free All Music is a safe, free, legal alternative to illegal music downloading and sharing. In return for your valuable attention to a short commercial video message for each download, your favorite brands cover the full, permanent licensing costs for your music selections. All required royalties are paid to the record labels for each track you download.




Guvera - You get free music, bands get paid

Free music, film and TV for fans and artists get paid. DRM-Free, High Quality content. From the pre-registration explanation: “Your pre-registration selections will determine the level of free content you have access to. ie: the profile of a 130 year old african princess only interested in pole vaulting in the Amazon may have limited access to cool free content.”




Ubetoo - Stream music from unsigned artists

Ubetoo.com is a new global streaming platform for music and entertainment not yet signed by a recording company or publisher. Independent artists can be seen and heard for free all over the world, while getting paid thanks to advertising income.




The Radio.com - Streaming radio subscription service

Ad-based or ad-free (for subscribers) radio service with over 200 unique music channels. Artist and genre based stations in addition to custom stations.




GotuitMusic

No fuss, no hassle – just music videos. Free, lots of ‘em, and only a few commercials mixed in to pay the bills. Watch and listen to thousands of your favorite music videos available free on GotuitMusic.com from Universal Music Group, EMI Music Group, KOCH Records, Eagle Rock Entertainment, Kung Fu Records, and many more!

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TUN3R

TUN3R is a virtual AM/FM dial complete with [orange] tuning needle. TUN3R shows Internet stations, represented by small squares. Simply by dragging the needle around the dial, you can instantly hear [reduced] audio samples from hundreds of stations around the world. TUN3R is also equipped with powerful search features to help you guide you browsing by: Song & Artist; Language; Genre (e.g. pop, rock, talk); and even the contents of the stations home page.

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Podango

Podango provides a rich platform that allows podcasters to host and distribute independent podcasts and to quickly form full-featured podcast networks. The platform’s rich feature set includes support for audio, video, and blogging, while surrounding the content with rich feedback mechanisms, reliable metrics, world-class search engine optimization (SEO), and a classy end user experience. The platform also makes it more affordable than ever to form powerful Podcast Networks wherein podcasters can join together to serve a market niche while combining their audiences to garner the benefits currently available to only the most successful and well-healed podcasters.

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Blubrry

Blubrry is a social podcasting community that connects podcast producers, advertisers and everyone looking for great independently produced content. producers gain exposure via social networking features and distribution tools. Advertisers gain the ability to access new markets via hundreds of available content channels that reach a worldwide audience of nearly all demographics. Everyone can realize the benefits of our software developed to make it easy for people to find, subscribe to and share their favorite podcast content.

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RCRD LBL

Downtown Records and Internet entrepreneur Peter Rojas plan to launch an online-only record label that will offer its music for free and generate revenue only through advertising and sponsorships. Targeted for launch this fall, the venture aims to merge free, exclusive music with niche blog content to offer advertisers highly targeted sponsorship opportunities.

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LAUNCHcast

Yahoo! LAUNCHcast is a streaming music service allowing you to create your own customized radio station tailored to your tastes. Rate artists and albums highly to hear them often and ban the ones you hate! You can also listen to our extensive collection of more than 130 pre-programmed radio stations created by our editorial staff.

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Zaziggy

Zaziggy provides free advertiser sponsored downloads. Every time you see an advertisement when you download a song, that advertiser has just paid for your download, and the artist gets a portion of the proceeds.

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Intent MediaWorks

IMW provides legal, secure file trading and have helped usher in a new era of digital media by turning each file into a marketing tool for the copyright owner. They have developed a model for lifestyle branding and viral social marketing that merges file-trading functionality with social network features.

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Qtrax

Qtrax, still unlaunched, is a P2P file-sharing service, and has already signed deals with Universal, Sony/ATV, Warner Music Group, The Orchard, EMI Music Publishing and EMI Music, TVT Records, Go Digital, ASCAP and BMI. The Company is based in New York, New York and Melbourne, Australia.

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Poptopus

Poptopus allows artists to contribute original songs to their system. These songs will then become available for any of our bloggers to play on their web sites. Every time one of your songs is played in Poptopus, you get a split from the advertising revenue connected to the instance that your song is played. For bloggers, every time somebody browses your website and uses Poptopus, you get a split from the advertising revenue it brings in.

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Lirix

Lirix, Inc. has invented, patented and developed the technology of on-device dynamic ad insertion with recorded or downloaded music. Delivered through the Lirix® Media System, this technology makes ad-supported recorded or downloaded music possible.

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We7

We7 allows you to download free DRM-free songs from their catalog. Each song is preceded by a short, relevant audio ad that will eventually disappear after a set period of time. You can share downloaded music and transfer songs to any mp3 player

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Spiral Frog

SpiralFrog is a new online music destination, offering ad-supported legal downloads of audio content licensed from the catalogs of the world’s major and independent record labels.

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