Interactive Award: Edition´10

More and more bands gain attention for their music by using the Internet in an interactive way.

Electro Rap group Art Lus & Ed Lip managed to create a hit out of a 'bad taste song' by innovating promotion.

Dutch pop band BLØF created a virtual house where fans could walk through and check out several live recordings sessions of tracks from their new album.

English Rock/Folkband Georgia Wonder started their Hello stranger campaign in 2008. They created 40 cd's and put each of them in special packaging which read 'Hello Stranger, I am on a journey, Please pick me up'. They sent the cd's to random locations across the UK. Each cd was numbered, and could be tracked trough their website and Facebook page. People were encouraged to listen to the cd's and then leave them somewhere else in a public place for someone else to listen.

Winner 2009 Silence is Sexy

Winner of the Artist Award 2009 was the Pop/Rock band 'Silence is Sexy'. They used torrents as a successful marketing tool by coöperating with the largest torrent site Mininova. Their album was downloaded over 15.000 times in less then two months. Besides the downloads they got a huge amount of media cover.

These are just some examples of how bands use the internet to promote their music.

The first Artist Award was presented during the Noorderslag Festival on the 12th of January 2008 and was granted to VanKatoen.

The Interactive Awards are presented by web agency theFactor.e, Buma Stemra and Eurosonic Noorderslag.

The Jury and You

A jury of music and web opinion leaders will nominate 5 acts with original and innovative interactive concepts to promote their music. You have the final call.

From the five nominees you can pick one who you think deserves the award.

5000 Euros

The award is nice. The winning act will receive:

- 2 days of recording time in Studio Spitsbergen, Holland

- 5000 euros

To register fill in the form. You have 600 words to describe your concept and of course you can fill in links to places on the internet where you are active.

Include some pictures if you need visuals to explain what you are doing.