Maroon 5 Fans Compete to Create Original Magazine Cover for the Band at Brickfish.com.Music Monitor Network and Maroon maroon, term for a fugitive slave in the 17th and 18th cent. in the West Indies and Guiana, or for a descendant of such slaves. They were called marron by the French and cimarrón by the Spanish. 5 Partner with Brickfish to Select Fan-Designed "Monitor This!" Magazine Cover SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the record industry. The current President of the Academy is Neil Portnow. winning band, Maroon 5 and Music Monitor Network have announced an online contest open to all fans to design the August 2007 cover of Monitor This! magazine. To celebrate the release of their new album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long, and their hit single, "Makes Me Wonder," Maroon 5 will select winning artwork created by a dedicated fan. The winning artwork will be featured on the cover of "Monitor This!" and will be published nationwide this summer. The winner will receive full creative credit, a print of the cover autographed au·to·graph n. 1. A person's own signature or handwriting. 2. A manuscript in the author's handwriting. tr.v. au·to·graphed, au·to·graph·ing, au·to·graphs 1. by Maroon 5, other autographed Maroon 5 swag and be featured on the Monitor This! Magazine website. Music Monitor Network selected Brickfish, the people-driven marketing platform, to drive fan interaction, including the ability to submit magazine covers, review designs, vote for and share the designs online. "This will be the first cover of Monitor This! Magazine to showcase art created by consumers. Brickfish is the perfect match for us as they have successfully run campaigns with consumer generated content for many well known bands," said Michael Kurtz, President of Music Monitor Network. Music Monitor Network and their website MonitorThis.com allow users to find links to the best indie in·die n. Informal 1. One, such as a studio or producer, that is unaffiliated with a larger or more commercial organization. 2. record stores across the country. "We are very pleased to have Music Monitor Network as a partner and we're excited about the opportunity to help Maroon 5 reach fans while finding outstanding creative designs to feature on the cover of Monitor This! Magazine," said Hyder Rabbani, Vice President of Sales and Business Development, of Brickfish. "It is great to see creative fans being recognized in a meaningful way." Brickfish.com has reached millions of consumers. The company has successfully hosted over 70 online campaigns showcasing thousands of pieces of brand-specific user-generated content The production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field. Mostly available on the Web via blogs and wikis, user-generated content refers to material such as the daily news, encyclopedias and other references, movie and product reviews as for well-known companies in the music, fashion, and lifestyles industries. The contest ends June 27, 2007 and is located at: www.brickfish.com/music/Maroon5. About Music Monitor Network The Music Monitor Network was formed in June 1997 to benefit mid-sized independently owned music retailers and record labels/distributors. By combining the marketing efforts of mid-sized chains across the country, the Music Monitor Network allows labels to save time and money by enjoying economies of scale in the execution of innovative promotional and advertising campaigns. Music Monitor Network programs promote the sale of both developing artists and hit product, as well as a full range of DVDs. About Brickfish Brickfish has created a new approach to online marketing. Our platform enables companies to drive consumer interaction and response through the world of User Generated Content (UGC See user-generated content. ). Companies can use the Brickfish platform to launch advertising and marketing campaigns that spark the creation of branded, user generated content and peer-to-peer sharing See peer-to-peer network. of this content across the Internet. Our approach is unique and highly personal. All Brickfish campaigns are 100% brand focused and begin by inviting consumers to submit their original brand-centric content (blogs, images, video or audio). Anyone can easily review, vote on, view and propagate prop·a·gate v. 1. To cause an organism to multiply or breed. 2. To breed offspring. 3. To transmit characteristics from one generation to another. 4. this branded content Branded Content, also known as Branded entertainment and Advertainment, is a relatively new form of advertising medium that blurs conventional distinctions between what constitutes advertising and what constitutes entertainment. around the Internet. Each interaction with the content increases the time consumers spend with the brand. Brickfish is able to measure these interactions both on Brickfish and across the Internet, after which we provide our clients with detailed reports that provide both qualitative and quantitative information about their campaigns. Brickfish campaigns reward consumers for creating content, reviewing, voting, viewing or propagating branded content to the web. Rewards include unique prizes and recognition across the internet. Brickfish is located in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . For more information, please visit www.brickfish.com. |
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