To mark this launch, ESC held The Road to CMJ 2011 Contest, an opportunity for a winning band to earn a guaranteed spot at CMJ this year.  HiFi Phantom was the grand prize winner of the contest, and will play at CMJ as part of the StreamJam showcase.

The StreamJam showcase at CMJ is set for October 19, 2011 at the Knitting Factory in NYC, and will be broadcast live within StreamJam. As part of its CMJ 2011 presence, StreamJam will also have access to the official CMJ Artist Lounge for capturing and displaying artist interviews around CMJ Music. StreamJam will also broadcast CMJ content including live music and interviews in partnership with the college radio station 95bFM.

• Schedule, edit and delete their own events through the web;
• Enhance their profile, change their location or stream, and personalize their event details;
• View their coin balances and show attendance stats after their events

We debuted the new artist tools at the SXSW 2011 Interactive Trade Show, earlier this month. Together with the RFW, we streamed 3 days worth of live music from our booth, including jazz pianist/organist/composer Marco Benevento, Island Def Jam recording acts MONA and Chapel Club, and other rising artists including the Ross Sea Party, Jamie Drastik, Eatliz, The Electric, Loyal Divide, The Golden Dogs, Dinosaur Bones and Kosha Dillz. We also streamed all four nights of the 60 band, 40,000+ attendee All Together Now showcase from the Bayou Lounge on 6th Street in Austin.

The experience at SXSW, our first, was extremely worthwhile and productive for us, both in terms of the opportunity to work with so many bands, and the opportunity to meet so many new people in music, technology, and media. We’re working on new partnerships with the contacts we’ve made at SXSW, and anticipate that we will have new updates to announce soon!

• >>Branded Virtual Goods: are now for sale during all of our live events, purchasable either by StreamJam Coins (USD$) or StreamJam Cred (points)
• >>Artist Gift Shops: fans can buy gifts for artists during shows to support their live performances
• >>Customized Venues: each event holder has a customized venue with graphics, posters and banners up in the virtual space along with links directing fans to artist sites where they can purchase music and find more artist information.
• >>Invite a Friend: users have the ability to easily invite their friends into the show they are viewing for a unique and immersive shared experience
• >>Animations: many dancing animations have been added to provide a more engaging fan experience

Additionally, we’d like to share two important updates to StreamJam.

Launch of StreamJam Partnership Program

StreamJam is forming partnerships with organizations that have online music communities.  We are excited to begin this by announcing our first partnership with The Roving Festival Writer (www.theRFW.com).  The RFW is focused on bringing concert attendees noteworthy content included interviews, reviews and first hand experiences documented by a network of fans.

Beginning in November, theRFW is unveiling a new section of their website, TheRFW Sessions, which will contain live streaming video of in-studio musician performances and interview sessions.  All RFW Sessions events will be live streamed in StreamJam, and our app will be embedded on the Sessions website at www.theRFW.com/sessions.  RFW Session artists will initially include Matt Costa, The Thermals, Shed, A.M. Architect, The Extraodinaires, Media One, Cold Men Young, The Satin Peaches and more.

We’ll be announcing more partnerships in the coming weeks.  If you would like to discuss how StreamJam can generate revenue from your website or live events, please contact us at on StreamJam.com.

New StreamJam Capabilities

In addition to all of the features we’ve added to the StreamJam Beta throughout this summer, we’ve recently launched integration with Justin.tv and Livestream.com.  We now fully support these streaming video providers in addition to Ustream.

We are still accepting new events in StreamJam during this Beta period, and if you would like to schedule an event please contact us here.  We expect to have our fully automated self scheduling event system in place by Q1 2011.

You can always check out the current state of StreamJam at http://apps.facebook.com/streamjam.

Hope to see you in a live event soon!

ESC founder Sibley Verbeck: “This is a major milestone for StreamJam, since it is now available for any artist to use and demonstrates how to the virtual goods business model of popular Facebook games can generate more revenue from artists’ live events and online fanbase.  It’s just the beginning, however: this is an early beta launch, and ESC will be rapidly adding a long list of important features over the next few months.”

StreamJam is currently being used by a group of beta artists who are putting on regular events to experiment with the new platform.  The first artists putting on beta events are Seth Regan, Matthew Perreault, and Zak Claxton, some of the leading artists who also play live in the virtual world of Second Life.  In the coming weeks, the StreamJam beta will be used by a wide variety of artists, from country to hip hop and independent musicians to major label acts.

To use StreamJam for an upcoming event or to put it on your website, contact us.

If you’d like to discussing using StreamJam, please contact us.

Please visit us at booth #14.

ESC is proud to announce that StreamJam, our free Facebook application for putting live concerts and events online, has been chosen as one of the 15 innovative music start-ups to be presented at MidemNet Lab, the showcase for cutting edge digital initiatives.   MidemNet Lab is part of Midem, the world’s largest music industry trade fair, held each year at Cannes, France.

We’ll be at Midem presenting StreamJam from January 23-27.   Drop us a line if you are interested in meeting up at Midem,  Streamjam@electricsheepcompany.com.

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On October 20, 2009, Valerie Williamson, ESC’s VP of Business Development & Marketing, will be speaking on a panel about virtual goods monetization at the Digital Hollywood Conference in Santa Monica, CA.  Valerie is joining a panel of folks from IMVU, Gaia Online, RocketOn and Sulake Corp., led by David Traub, VP of Business Development for DigitalSportsMedia. The panel description is as follows:

Virtual worlds, virtual gaming and virtual communities have spawned a universe of goods and services. With hundreds of millions of users consumed in online gaming or social media, the phenomenon of the virtual economy is becoming ever more innovative and based in impressive economic numbers. As the technology enables better and more creative consumer experience, enabling full rich media virtual services and economies, the size, scope and future of the virtual world will only first become understood and realized.

The World of Warcraft gets all the press and attention, but the truth is millions of gamers are logging on to casual MMO’s and virtual worlds every month. Over the last 18 months, more investment capital has been poured into this segment than any other in the games industry. Come and learn which companies will be winners of this growing category.

Sibley Verbeck, CEO, joins a workshop with folks from Sony Online Entertainment, Gaia, IMVU, Turbine, RocketOn, PaymentOne

Tuesday, May 5th
Special Workshops
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM
Workshop B:
Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Services and Virtual Gaming

Bernie Yee, Executive Producer and Head of Game Development, joins a panel with folks from Microsoft, AOL, Zynga, DoubleFusion, Machinima.com, and Norwest Venture Partners:

Tuesday, May 5th
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Track IV
Innovation in Games, Game Networks and Social Gaming – Massive User Communities and Commerce
As the platforms become more robust, as broadband, mobile, social media and TV provide greater consumer interactive flexibility, games as a product, as a destination, as a network or community and as a force in commerce grows. The growing power of the network, the relationship between the technology and the consumer, is opening the door to an entirely new and more complex set of tools in designing a multi-layered gaming consumer experience. From the explosion in casual gaming to the dedicated hardcore gamer, the power of the network is redefining games and user engagement which is ultimately revolutionizing the bottom line of the industry.