PassAlong Partners with Award-Winning Jazz Magazine to Launch Online Music Store
Franklin, Tenn. — July 24, 2007 — StoreBlocks™, the music distribution platform offered by music distribution developer PassAlong Networks™, today launched an online music store for JAZZIZ® Omnimedia and its subsidiaries, JAZZIZ® Magazine, JAZZIZ® Digital and JAZZIZ® Bistro. The store features PassAlong's entire catalog of 3 million songs and highlights jazz musicians on the homepage.
"JAZZIZ is an industry leader in the jazz world and we are honored to partner with them to extend our services to a new and unique audience,"; said Dave Jaworski, co-founder and CEO of PassAlong Networks. "We are looking for partners that want to focus on specific genres and it's great to have JAZZIZ lead the way."
StoreBlocks includes one of the industry's largest music catalogs of 3 million songs, innovative viral marketing tools and extensive store building options and features. Included in its music catalog are around 2 million independent songs in MP3 format.
"The launch of our online music store enhances our position as the preeminent infotainment and distribution company for all things jazz," said Michael Fagien, CEO of JAZZIZ Omnimedia.
All StoreBlocks program levels include the company's patent-pending Passing-and-Points™ platform, which offers fans an incentive to share music with others by awarding them points for their efforts, redeemable for future purchases. Music can be shared via email, Yahoo! Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and with Skype.
StoreBlocks' premium services currently power more than 120 online music stores, including BreakthruRadio, TransWorld's f.y.e. – for your entertainment online music store and Procter & Gamble's Julie's Jukebox, a digital music store on HomeMadeSimple.com.
About JAZZIZ®
For nearly 25 years, JAZZIZ® Magazine has been covering the jazz world, documenting musical innovations, charting industry trends, and illustrating the artists whose lives so colorfully inform our own. Award-winning JAZZIZ® Magazine gives you the lowdown each month on what's hot (and what's not) in the world of jazz with insightful editorial, hundreds of CD reviews, and inspired photography and design. And JAZZIZ® lets you hear the music for yourself in all its classic and modern variety with JAZZIZ ON DISC™, a beautifully packaged CD filled with classic, new and exclusive music not available anywhere else! JAZZIZ® has been called "the voice of a new jazz culture; a culture it helped create," and over the past 24 years has grown to become the largest-circulated jazz publication in the world and the undisputed authority on jazz music and style. Now more than a magazine, JAZZIZ® stands for the best content, products, and services that the jazz world has to offer.
About StoreBlocks™
A full-service music distribution platform, StoreBlocks™ offers online retail store-building tools to enable clients to provide their end-consumers with a library of 3 million licensed songs, including 2 million in raw MP3 format, allowing for interoperability across multiple platforms and devices. Its powerful music referral system, Passing-and-Points™, offers easy-to-use rewards programs and legal music sharing. StoreBlocks offers a range of store options for everyone from individuals and charities to large corporations and currently powers more than 120 stores including BreakthruRadio, TransWorld's f.y.e. – for your entertainment online music store and Procter & Gamble's Julie's Jukebox, a digital music store on HomeMadeSimple.com. Features include turnkey templates, Web services, reporting systems, e-commerce engines and storefront showcases. StoreBlocks is a division of PassAlong Networks and can be found at http://www.StoreBlocks.com.
About PassAlong Networks
PassAlong Networks is a developer of digital media innovations and services designed to enhance the Connected Consumer™ ecosystem. PassAlong's B2B2C technology engine provides four key services for the digital media marketplace: StoreBlocks™ offers a variety of store–building tools to enable clients to provide their end–consumers with a library of nearly 3 million licensed songs and the powerful music referral system, Passing–and–Points™; freedomMP3™ provides interoperability for digital media files, including raw MP3 files, across multiple platforms and devices while promoting a balance of artist rights and media empowerment for both content creators and consumers; OnTour™ connects fans to detailed, accurate and relevant concert notifications; and Speakerheart™ enables artists to seamlessly upload, promote and sell their digital music. Founded in 2002, PassAlong Networks is privately held and based in Franklin, Tenn. For more information, visit http://www.passalongnetworks.com.
OnTour, StoreBlocks, freedomMP3, PassAlong, Connected Consumer, Passing–and–Points and Speakerheart are trademarks of PassAlong Networks.
All other brands are trademarks of their respective owners.
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