The time has come and the first of MegaPlatinum Entertainment's 2008 initiatives is upon us.

The MegaPlatinum Entertainment "Spread This!" online campaign is a peer to peer filesharing initiative that will reach approximately half a million rock, garage, stoner, and punk music fans worldwide. We will launch the campaign on March 1st, to run until May 31st 2008 via our bittorrent File Server. This 3 month promotion is a reaction to the Music Industry administering lawsuits and giving black eyes to today's rock music fans, instead of figuring out ways to understand this technology better and cater to fans' wishes for content delivery. We want to prove through our projects this year that ad supported and other forms of file sharing DO produce desirable results if done properly (which we don't believe it has been yet), and that fans want to discover bands in this way. On top of that we believe if it's easy enough for them to buy the music once they've discovered it, they will. Not to mention MegaPlatinum deals exclusively in Primal, Powerful, and Liberating rock, which is the best type of music there is!

How it works is this - bittorrent files contain a computer folder that houses the mp3 files, informational text or pdf documents, and .html files that act as direct link shortcuts to any pre-determined website. For this particular promotion, we will include a band name, song title, and web address in the id3 tags (so that you will see these on your iPod or other music player for example), and a .pdf magazine with links to your band's website and biography.

In addition to our direct contact with tons of fans, the campaign is already sparking interest from p2p filesharing news networks and music industry news sites. They're very interested in covering this groundbreaking inititative.

The music will be broken up into 3 song sets from each band - like virtual singles. The 160k mp3 files will be the free spreadable versions, and for sale will be a 320k (better quality) mp3 and .flac version (Flac is a newer audiophile-ish format which is CD quality - but for download). The for sale versions will retail at the MegaPlatinum online store for 69 cents per song (a total of $2.07). We will pay the bands $1.00 US for each copy of the 3 song set sold at the MegaPlatinum Store. (If someone buys the mp3 AND flac version, you would get $2 for that sale).

A one time payment will be made for all copies sold at the end of the promotion.

Interested bands need to send us a CD of their band's music as soon as possible along with a list of the 3 songs they approve for inclusion. No cover songs. The bands need to hold all Copyrights to the works they are submitting. In addition the bands need to fill out the release form (link below) and send it in with their CD. (If you want to burn a CD of 3 songs from different releases that is fine, but please no rough demos or live soundboard recordings. All recordings need to be of a professional quality to maintain the integrity of the campaign).

A high quality photo and/or logo and 1 paragraph biography would also be appreciated. You can send those to mp@megaplatinum.net so we can include them with promoting your release at www.megaplatinum.net

Release Form link:
http://www.megaplatinum.net/stsrelease.html

The Deadline for entry is February 20th. Any questions can be sent to mp@megaplatinum.net

Submission for entry is not a guarantee that we will choose your music for the campaign.

Bands selected will be qualified for entry for our Summer 2008 project, which will be even bigger. More details to come.

Send to:

MegaPlatinum Entertainment LLC
1027 Grand St. 2A
Brooklyn, NY 11211
USA