ARTISTdirect Relaunches ARTISTdirect Network; New Site Design Focuses On Multiple Functionalities.Business/Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2000 ARTISTdirect.com (Nasdaq:ARTD) today unveiled a redesign of the ARTISTdirect Network. Utilizing flash technology and a streamlined navigation, the new ARTISTdirect.com is focused on utility and broadband music entertainment. As an integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. of Web sites, ARTISTdirect.com offers a comprehensive online music experience, allowing users to search a database of more than 100,000 artists, download or stream authorized music, purchase music and music merchandise, view original broadband content, and participate in an active community of music fans. Additionally, ARTISTdirect (www.artistdirect.com) offers on-line ticketing, music news and information, auctions, contests, and original content direct from the artists themselves. "We always envisioned ARTISTdirect as a fully integrated destination for music fans, and in order to realize our vision, we needed to offer our users an enormous amount of content as well as utility," said Marc Geiger, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Chairman of ARTISTdirect Inc. "One of our goals with the redesign was to enhance the visual appeal of the ARTISTdirect sites, but the primary goal was to improve the user experience." The primary navigation on the ARTISTdirect homepage consists of "music info," "community," "video," " listen" and "shopping." "Music info" brings the user to UBL (Universal Business Language) A format for exchanging data from one XML business language to another. Based on ebXML Core Components, UBL is designed to provide a common language that acts as an intermediate vocabulary so that one XML vocabulary can interoperate with .com, an award-winning music search engine, as well as real-time ticketing, contests, music news, music resources, and original editorial content. "Community" offers access to bulletin boards, chat areas, poll questions, and artist profiles. "Video" is devoted to broadband content from ARTISTdirect fan conferences to music videos. "Listen" showcases ARTISTdirect's dedicated music download A music download refers to the transferring of a music file from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment if required. area, which features authorized tracks from a variety of major label and independent artists, as well as streaming music applications. "Shopping" covers ARTISTdirect's artist-specific e-commerce sites as well as a general music retail center, and ARTISTdirect Auctions, a co-branded site with eBay. New features include more than 700 Genre listings, from Gospel to Electronica  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , "On This Day," music and music related factoids that will be updated daily, and a custom player using embedded video technology in the broadband area. Artist channels, which include official stores and sites for such artists as *NSYNC NSYNC Justin Chris Joey Lasten JC (last letters of first names of members of the group NSYNC) NSYNC Negative Synchronization , Cher, Metallica, and many others are also integrated into the Network. With auto-publishing tools, over 100,000 artists can directly update their own information or upload their own tracks. "The depth and breadth of content within the ARTISTdirect Network is tremendous -- given that we cover numerous genres of music, and offer services from e-commerce to digital music -- it has to be," said Keith Yokomoto, President and COO of ARTISTdirect Inc. "The site's redesign combines an efficient interface with a streamlined navigation; the end result is a cohesive offering that highlights ARTISTdirect's utility and positions the company for digital distribution." About ARTISTdirect Inc. The ARTISTdirect Network (Nasdaq:ARTD) is an online music network that connects music artists and fans. The integrated network of Web sites offers multi-media entertainment content, music news and information, community around shared music interests, and music-related commerce. The ARTISTdirect Network consists of ARTISTdirect.com (www.artistdirect.com), home of the official channels that the company operates on behalf of artists; UBL.com (www.ubl.com), a music search engine on the Web; iMusic (www.imusic.com), an online community site where fans exchange music interests and commentary; DOWNLOADSdirect, (www.downloadsdirect.com) -- a feature which enables users to download music from the ARTISTdirect Network and to upload their music and other information, Artist TV, the network hub See hub and hub vs. switch. for broadband programming, and the ARTISTdirect Superstore, a retail site offering a wide selection of recorded music recorded music n → música grabada and artist merchandise. Additionally, ARTISTdirect Inc. operates the ARTISTdirect Talent Agency. The Company has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Chicago, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and London. |
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