Get Your Music Videos Made Through Radar

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We have seen many beautiful music videos submitted into Fluence, and more often than not the truly stellar ones have been produced by the network of amazing video directors at Radar Music Videos. We’re excited to partner with Radar to help the creative community in Fluence produce the right music video for their needs and aesthetic style.

Radar Music Videos has a network of 12,000+ video directors based all around the world. Radar provides these directors with the right connections to the broader industry to foster an environment of continuing career development. They actively headhunt from their pool for the most talented directors, via their most respected Curators and then further connect them to production companies. They advise directors on how they can develop their career by using the influence of Curators who can point them in the right direction and provide valuable feedback.

Radar connects top labels and artists to their network of talented directors to provide them with the professional filmmaking talent they need. Their clients include Armada Music, Ultra, Sony, Atlantic Record, Believe Digital, Cooking Vinyl and many other partners from the major labels to independent labels, management companies, and directly to the artists themselves. They all use Radar to commission great videos.

Go to Radar now to get your music video done right. They are the proven leader in getting the right video made for your filmmaking needs. See for yourself the high quality videos that Radar’s network of directors have produced by watching the Radar Music Videos’ Staff Picks below.


Check out of our favorite Radar commissioned music videos submitted into Fluence by Pedro Meirelles called Nostalgia.

 

Fluence Lists

Today we released “Fluence Lists” – a new feature to help you organize and keep track of people who can help you with your promotional needs.

Featured Fluence listsLet us know if you want to be on these featured lists. You can create your own lists by clicking the ‘Add To’ button on any profile row or page.

 

Add To Fluence Lists

 

From the profiles page, you can see lists of people you follow on Twitter or SoundCloud and are connected to on Facebook and Gmail. (More networks coming soon!)

Fluence Lists

 

You can also see the people on Fluence you have previously submitted to and quickly reconnect with the ones who have liked or shared your submissions. The more you use Fluence, the more powerful it gets.

Creating lists is enormously helpful in segmenting people who can be useful in your pre-release and post release promotions. Create your own lists and share them with your colleagues and friends who are looking for help in promoting their art, products, and ideas.

Get started creating your own lists here and if you have yet to try Fluence yourself you can signup here with $5 free credit. We have much more for you coming soon!

 

Get started on Fluence with $5 free credit

Promoting Kickstarter Campaigns with Fluence

Promoting Kickstarter Campaigns with Fluence

 

Kickstarter is a leading force in the creative community and have successfully crowdfunded over 84,000+ projects with over 1.6 billion dollars pledged. Many have requested the ability to promote their Kickstarter campaigns through Fluence, and today we’re happy to announce native support for all Kickstarter campaigns.

Now when creators are looking to promote their Kickstarter projects beyond their initial circles, they can use Fluence to send their campaigns to curators around the world who can connect them to new audiences. We hope Fluence can make more Kickstarter campaigns achieve their goals quicker and go beyond their initial funding aspirations.

Check out a few inspiring Kickstarter projects already taking flight across Fluence like this creative 3D sound platform ENVELOP.

Former Beauty & The Beast star Amber Skye’s Kickstarter Project

 

 

Start promoting your own Kickstarter projects in Fluence with $5 free credit when you sign up.

Get started on Fluence with $5 free credit

Bitcoin needs a killer app

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Now that the initial peak of inflated expectations over Bitcoin is well behind us and we’ve begun to emerge out of the proverbial trough of disillusionment, thousands of people around the world are working on Bitcoin apps and doing really interesting things. But as of yet, no one has created that one killer app which gives regular people a compelling reason to use Bitcoin.

At Fluence, we think one potential app that could have mass appeal is a decentralized, peer to peer advertising network. The system would allow anyone to target other users directly and pay them to look at any URL and provide constructive feedback or promotional help. You could also earn for your own time and attention helping others.

We’ve already built a centrally managed version of this app at https://fluence.io, but in this post we’ll discuss the steps we could take to decentralize the system and possibly refactor ourselves out of jobs.

Decentralization

One of the important roles we play at Fluence is to look at each review that takes place and ensure that it meets our community guidelines. We also validate the information people put on their profiles and estimate their external reach. This important information helps drive our targeting algorithm, but these activities make us the bottleneck and require users to trust that we’ll act with their best interests at heart. Even though we ALWAYS DO have their best interests at heart — it would be better if the system could scale all by itself and didn’t require any leap of faith.

A decentralized version of Fluence would address these issues by providing radical transparency and pushing these moderation and verification tasks onto our users themselves. This self organizing system could incentive productive, honest behavior and would be fully auditable and democratic.

Our transition to a decentralized model will require the following steps:

Change the payment infrastructure

We adopt a cryptocurrency such as bitcoin for all transactions within the system. This lowers transaction fees and reduces the friction involved in managing credit card charges and refunds for all of our users around the world. The money saved by avoiding these banking fees pays users who perform moderation and community management tasks.

Start sharing encrypted, anonymized activity data

All relevant app activity is saved to a shared public ledger of user interactions on the system. This Fluence blockchain is the shared database that users will use to moderate and manage the system.

Refactor the management

The new decentralized autonomous organization will handle tasks previously performed by the Fluence team. Reviews, recommendations and vetting will be performed by the users with consensus emerging from a similar voting mechanism that Bitcoin uses to verify transactions.

These moderation and management tasks can be performed by real humans or automated applications and both will be able to earn funds and accrue bitcoin in their account for participating and helping to make the system work for everyone.

Deployment in the real world

A critical success factor for us is to provide a seamless glidepath for our existing users to the decentralized autonomous version. Not everyone will be ready to retain their earnings in BTC, but they can still benefit from the network and its new capabilities. Over time, we imagine that people will see the value of bitcoin and may come to think of using Fluence as a safe and easy way to start saving bitcoin for their future. Who knows, perhaps one day they’ll be worth millions?