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  • uPlaya Blog Re-Design (April, 2011) We recently gave the uPlaya Blog a face-lift, and it has never looked better. Take a look.
  • Win a Mobile Recording Studio (April, 2011) uPlaya is giving away a Mobile Recording Studio: an iPad 2 stocked with mobile recording apps so you can create great music practically anywhere. Enter uPlaya’s Win a Mobile Recording Studio Contest to win an iPad 2 complete with StudioTracks and GarageBand. This contest is free to enter. Submit your music now.
  • Crowd-Fund Your Music (April, 2011) Along with the Artist Dashboard re-design, we’re excited to announce a brand new feature to your uPlaya Press Kit! Now you can use your UPK to raise money for your next music project. Thanks to a partnership with Microgiving, your uPlaya Press Kit can be transformed into a powerful crowd-funding tool to help you raise money for your next album or tour.
  • Artist Dashboard Re-Design (April, 2011) Notice any changes to your Artist Dashboard? We just gave it a makeover! uPlaya couldn’t be more proud of our new look. The new dashboard makes it easier to view and manage your music. Let us know what you think.
  • Social Media Contests (March, 2011) We’re excited to bring you more contests and more chances to win with your music. Beginning in March, we will be hosting bi-monthly contests on the uPlaya Facebook Page. The contests are free to enter and provide the chance for you to win tools and gear for your music career. But they only last a few days, so you have to act quick! Visit our Facebook Page now and click on the “Contests” tab to see if there’s one going on right now.
  • Get Satisfaction (March, 2011) Have questions, concerns or feedback for uPlaya? Please let us know on our Get Satisfaction. We’ve recently added more content to help you find answers to the questions you are looking for and to give you more opportunities to tell us what you think.
  • Holiday Offer (January, 2010) For a limited-time only, uPlaya is giving every user who upgrades their account before January 31st 15 additional uploads! Each upload comes with Hit Song Science analysis, globally-reaching promotional tools, contest tickets and more. With the new subscription options, that means you could get 17 additional uploads for just $25. What are you waiting for? Upgrade Now.
  • New Subscription Options(December, 2010) uPlaya has made a few tweaks to the Premium Subscription options to help you better customize your uPlaya experience. We now offer Premium and Premium Plus, both full of useful and career-changing benefits and features. Learn more about the new subscriptions and about Premium benefits here.
  • Music Universe Talent Search and Guitar Giveaway (December, 2010) Want to win a hand-crafted, personalized Benedetto Guitar? Over a prolific, four-decade career, Bob Benedetto has personally hand-crafted nearly 800 instruments, including 500 archtops, and is widely acknowledged as today’s foremost maker of archtop guitars. Today Benedetto sets aside a small part of his schedule to create one-of-a-kind custom-made guitars for a fortunate few, using only the finest and rarest available materials. Find out how your music can earn one customized just for you here.
  • Special Offers from uPlaya (November, 2010) Through strategic partnerships with influential music companies and organizations, uPlaya is able to provide special offers and promotions to the uPlaya community. Find discounts on career resources like industry contact lists, sound and lighting services, promotional videos and expert consulting; and also find networking opportunities with a variety of festivals and events around the nation, in the new Offers section of uPlaya.com.
  • A3C Hip Hop Festival (October, 2010) uPlaya hooked a few lucky artists up with free high-level tickets to attend one of the largest hip hop festivals in the Southeast in October of 2010. uPlaya is actively looking for more event partners and affiliates who can provide opportunities to our user community, so if you have suggestions for a potential affiliate you would like to see, tell us here.
  • Deal Makers Promotion (September, 2010) Through a strategic partnership with Deal Makers, uPlaya sent one talented artist to the Deal Makers Showcase, sponsored by Hennessy Artistry, where he networked with industry experts and executives and held a meeting with a respected A&R executive from one of the major labels. uPlaya will continue to leverage this relationship to provide more opportunities for our artist community, so keep an eye on what Deal Makers does next!
  • Additional Ways to Share Promotional Widgets (June, 2010) uPlaya has once again beefed up the sharing power of your promotional widgets by allowing you to grab the HTML of each album and trophy widget to use as you like. This means you can put your marketing widgets on your websites, blogs and basically anywhere you can place HTML!
  • Amplified Sharing Power of Promotional Widgets (June, 2010) uPlaya’s marketing widgets now include the power of AddThis sharing. Although Twitter and Facebook are two of the largest services for sharing, they only represent about 43% of AddThis sharing. Now you can send your promotional album widget or Auddy-Award trophy widget to more than 670 million potential new fans … with access to nearly 300 different sharing services!
  • Advanced Customization for uPlaya Press Kits (June, 2010) You asked for it, and uPlaya has made it happen! Now you can choose the order of the Featured Song Player on your uPlaya Press Kit. Important Note: When artists are chosen for the Featured Artist Page, the song that appears on the page is the song from the top slot of their Featured Song Player.
  • Tools to Enhance Communication with Fans (April, 2010) uPlaya is now offering a Newsletter Feature so you can update all of your fans via email. Encourage your fans to attend a show, let them know about a new release or Auddy Award, and start building valuable and long-lasting relationships with them! * Premium Subscribers will be able to send emails more frequently.
  • Homepage for Your Fans (April, 2010) uPlaya has added a dashboard for music fans! The Fan Homepage is overflowing with featured artists from the site, music discovery games, profiles of artists and so much more! This page is a great way to discover new music and find other artists using the technology. Make sure you check back periodically – your music may show up on the page one day!
  • Tools to Build Your Fan Base (April, 2010) uPlaya has added “Become a Fan” buttons on ALL of your uPlaya marketing tools, including all of your promotional widgets, your uPlaya Press Kit, and your music discovery games, and anywhere your music or band information appears on uPlaya! A fan simply needs to click the red heart symbol at the top of the page or widget to show their support. This is in addition to the “Like” button that is also on each of your tracks, so fans have an even more ways to show their support.
  • Create Your Own Fan Community on the Web Through uPlaya (April, 2010)You can now build a fan base through uPlaya! Encourage your fans to create an account through uPlaya so they can keep up with you and other awesome uPlaya artists! They will be able to easily access information about all of their favorite bands, including you!
  • Statistics Tracking (January 2010)Check your Statistics Dashboard each day to learn more about how people are responding to your music. You can track data on how many times someone has viewed your widgets and what they are clicking on, including: the “info” button, the “like” and “dislike” buttons, and the “buy” button. The Dashboard allows you to see the raw numbers for your widgets and also provides charts so you can see your progress!
  • uPlaya Games (December 2009)Get more exposure for your music through uPlaya Games! The Hit Song Game gives uPlaya artists immediate exposure to millions of Facebook users and provides feedback from users on which songs are hit-worthy. On the Music Universe Game for the iPhone and in beta for Premium Subscribers, users test their musical ear against Hit Song Science while discovering new music.

  • The Attic (November 2009)There’s a new way of managing your music! Go to your album’s “edit” page to easily switch songs between albums, and adjust different song settings. We’ve even included a new way for you to temporarily hide songs you don’t want to see anymore, called The Attic. Songs can be retrieved from The Attic at any time.
  • uPlaya Press Kit (UPK)(October 2009)Artists can now professionally present themselves to promoters, venues, and record labels confidentially with this fully featured press kit. The UPK includes YouTube video, a photo slideshow, tour date calendar features, plus much more.
  • Blogger Portal(September 2009)Music Bloggers can now gain access to the latest top-scoring uPlaya Artists as well as increase exposure to their blog.
  • Music Universe & Blue Infinity Mashup Contest(July 2009)
  • Music Universe & American Songwriter Contest(July 2009)
  • uPlaya Artists (beta) is Launched!(July 2009)