Ourstage

OurStage.com

URL	OurStage.com
Slogan	The New Music Revolution
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Music, competitions, community
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	English
Owner	OurStage, Inc.
Created by	Benjamin Campbell, CEO
Launched	2007

OurStage.com is a web and mobile-based music community offering free music streaming, discovery, and editorial content. It is owned and operated by OurStage Inc., headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Founded in 2007, OurStage.com holds monthly sponsored competitions for artists to compete, win prizes, and publicize themselves.

OurStage.com's proprietary judging software allows its users to listen, judge and rank music artists. The site was originally developed as a crowdsourced way to hear new music and raise it up through the charts.^[1]

Features

OurStage allows streaming music for free to users through its web site or an iPhone app,^[2] with 40 styles of music including rock, pop, urban, and country music.

Local, regional, and national competitions award cash prizes or music industry opportunities to winners chosen through fan judging or by industry experts. Competitions have included Guitar Center's Your Next Record with Keith Urban,^[3] Drake's Thank Me Later Competition,^[4] the Lilith Local Talent Search as part of Lilith Fair 2010,^[5] and John Mayer's Side Stage Warfare Competition.^[6][7]

Partners

OurStage past and present partners and sponsors include Intel and Cakewalk,^[8] AOL,^[9] CMJ Network,^[10] MTV ^[11] and Clear Channel.^[12]

Board

OurStage, Inc.'s Board of Directors includes Don Ienner (former Chairman and CEO of Sony Music), Gary Cohen (founder of MusicNow), David Moore (founder and Chairman of RealMedia, Inc.), Bill Wittenberg (co-founder and former CTO of Maven Networks, Inc.), and Ray Volpe (Chairman & CEO of Kaleidoscope Sports and Entertainment).

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References

1. ^ "OurStage: Pushing Bands Up the Long Tail". Wired. 2007-04-05. http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2007/04/ourstage_pushin/. 
2. ^ "Listen To Top Indie Songs On Your iPhone". TechCrunch. 2007-11-16. http://techcrunch.com/2007/11/16/listen-to-top-indie-songs-on-your-iphone/. 
3. ^ "Guitar Center Presents Your Next Record With Keith Urban". Country Fan Network. 2010-11-18. http://countryfannetwork.com/guitar-center-presents-your-next-record-with-keith-urban/. 
4. ^ "Winners of Drake's Thank Me Later Competitions -Sponsored by Sprite and OurStage.com- Reaped Rewards in Toronto on August 1". PRWeb. 2010-08-03. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/08/prweb4348514.htm. 
5. ^ "The 2010 Lilith Tour Announces Partnership With OurStage.com in the "Lilith Local Talent Search"". lilithfair.com. 2009-11-10. http://testing.lilithfair.com/news/2010-lilith-tour-announces-partnership-ourstagecom-%E2%80%9Clilith-local-talent-search. 
6. ^ "Dual Life of Singer-Songwriter and Brearley Senior". New York Times. 2011-07-24. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/dual-life-of-singer-songwriter-and-brearley-senior/?emc=eta1. 
7. ^ "OurStage lets bands compete to win prizes". cnet.com. 2008-06-18. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-9972394-27.html. 
8. ^ "Cakewalk®, Intel, and OurStage.com Launch the "Superstars" Songwriting Competition". Intel Newsroom. 2010-07-01. http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2010/07/01/cakewalk-intel-and-ourstagecom-launch-the-superstars-songwriting-competition. 
9. ^ "OurStage Announces Strategic Partnership With AOL Music". Business Wire. 2008-04-05. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20080305005957/en/OurStage-Announces-Strategic-Partnership-AOL-Music. 
10. ^ "OurStage partners with CMJ Network". boston.com. 2007-05-08. http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2007/05/ourstage_partne.html. 
11. ^ "MTV and OurStage.com Announce Partnership to Engage Emerging Artists and Their Fans". Reuters. 2009-08-26. http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/08/26/idUS119825+26-Aug-2009+PRN20090826. 
12. ^ "SUBWAY® Restaurants, Clear Channel Radio and OurStage.com Partner to Change the Rules for Discovering Emerging Music Artists". Clear Channel. 2010-09-02. http://www.clearchannel.com/Radio/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=2774. 

External links

• OurStage.com CEO Benjamin Campbell on New England Cable News, NECN, May 2007
• Boston: The Hidden Hub of Music and Technology, Xconomy.com, October 2007
• OurStage Beefs Up Systems and Storage for Music Web Site, Network Computing, May 2009
• OurStage Act Gaining Partnership Audience Amid Economic Downturn, Xconomy.com, October 2007
• Business Matters: Ourstage, HMV, iTunes and more, Billboard, September 2010
• Alexa Internet Scoring
• Cool Site of the Day Feature September 17th, 2011