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ABOUT NUGS.NET
nugs.net enterprises LLC is a privately held company focused on digital media distribution for the music industry. Built upon years of experience deploying enterprise-level applications for Fortune Fifty companies, nugs.net offers a comprehensive platform for digital media distribution. With the tools and services nugs.net provides, artists can harness the demand for their live performances and studio recordings. Nugs.net services and software empower touring bands to create a viable music distribution channel as a paid, high-quality alternative to the unbridled free online music trading universe.
The nugs.net platform currently powers the music download programs for Phish, Metallica, Dave Matthews Band, The String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, and many others, as well as the free music channel at www.nugs.net.
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NUGS.NET PROJECTS
http://www.nugs.net
One of the most popular outlets for free live music, the nugs.net channel delivers over 3 million downloads a month to 250,000 users. Moreover, 50,000 users each month listen to nugs.net radio, a 24/7 stream from nugs.net's extensive archives. Artists featured on nugs.net include The Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic, The String Cheese Incident, Bruce Hornsby, and Little Feat. Over 300 full length concerts are available for free download. From its inception, nugs.net has been dedicated to the distribution of FREE music. All of the music on nugs.net is available thanks to the artists who send in tapes from their archives to be featured on nugs.net, and the community of tapers who capture and share their recordings of live shows.
http://www.livedownloads.com
Debuting New Year’s Eve 2003, Live Downloads is a premium channel offering downloads of live concerts and albums. Throughout 2004, fans can expect to find a growing catalog of high quality, current and archived music from their favorite artists. Artists and labels can use Live Downloads’ custom suite of tools and scalable infrastructure to immediately offer music and video downloads of their choice directly to their fans. Live Downloads currently features nearly 100 concerts and albums from The String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, and The Radiators, among many others.
>>To distribute your artist or label’s music with Live Downloads, please contact our staff.
http://www.livephish.com
Launched in December 2002, the groundbreaking Live Phish Downloads service set the standard for private label, direct band-to-fan online live music distribution. No band had ever before offered every note that they play for download within 48 hours of each performance. Fans flocked to the service immediately, and Phish responded by offering more shows from the Phish Archives and from solo projects by Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, and Vida Blue. In another unprecedented turn of events, Phish announced that they would donate all of the 2004 Phish net profits from Live Phish Downloads to their charity, The Mockingbird Foundation.
Phish outsourced their entire online music distribution business to nugs.net, including e-commerce, user registration and authentication, web site hosting, content delivery, encoding, live concert recording, post-production, customer support, and royalty reporting.
>>If you are interested in a private label download service like livephish.com, please contact our staff.
http://www.LiveMetallica.com
Metallica teamed up with nugs,net, the leader in live concert downlodas, to provide downloads of every
concert on their Spring 2004 North American Tour. LiveMetallica.com is a partnership with Metallica, nugs.net, Elektra Records,
and CinemaNow.
>>If you are interested in a private label download service like LiveMetallica.com, please contact our staff.
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http://www.davematthewsband.com
Dave Matthews was one of the few major artists who never released his music to any of the music download services, opting instead to partner with nugs.net to create his own private label download service. As part of an agreement between Musictoday and nugs.net, Dave Matthews and many of Musictoday's clients now offer album and concert downloads via the Musictoday storefront and nugs.net's digital fulfilment services.
>>If you are interested in a private label download service like davematthewsband.com, please contact our staff.
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http://www.livebonnaroo.com
The Bonnaroo Music Festival, held each year in Manchester, TN, drew 90,000 music lovers from all over the world in June of 2004. Over 80 artists performed, ranging from Dave Matthews to Trey Anastasio to The Dead and Bob Dylan. Bonnaroo partnered with nugs.net and Musictoday to create LiveBonnaroo.com, a private-label download service offering high quality downloads of many of the performances from Bonnaroo. Multitrack recordings culled from six stages were mixed by Third Wave Productions on a 24 hour production schedule in four live mix rooms backstage throughout the weekend. Upon final mix approval from each artist, nugs.net mastered and encoded each performance and published the music for download on LiveBonnaroo.com. Among the 30 participating artists were Dave Matthews & Friends, The Dead, Galactic, My Morning Jacket, Del McCoury, and the North Mississippi Allstars Hill Country Review.
>>If you are interested in a private label download service like livebonnaroo.com, please contact our staff.
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http://www.LiveWidespreadPanic.com
Upon their return to the road after a 15 month hiatus, Widespread Panic teamed up with nugs.net to launch LiveWidespreadPanic.com. Select shows will be available throughout the band's 2005 tour. Panic bass player Dave Schools says, "We have always tried to provide our fans with what they want, so due to the overwhelming demand for tickets to the Atlanta Fox concerts we thought making these recordings available for free for a short period of time would be a great way to satisfy that demand. This also allows us to begin the process of fulfilling another top priority fan desire which is making high quality recordings of Panic shows available to everyone quickly and efficiently. We look forward to a fruitful relationship with nugs.net this spring and, as always, we count on fan input for positive direction with this service."
>>If you are interested in a private label download service like LiveWidespreadPanic.com, please contact our staff.
NUGS.NET SERVICES
• Direct band-to-fan music distribution
• Highly focused live music channel sales through LiveDownloads.com
• Private label music channels (for example, http://www.livephish.com)
• Consulting services
• Music and video encoding
• Video On Demand and Pay-Per-View streams and downloads
• Custom Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions
• Subscription services for content on demand channels
• Internet radio development and deployment
>>For more information regarding nugs.net's services, please contact our staff.
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NUGS.NET IN THE PRESS
ARTICLES
•Rolling Stone 12/20/02
•Wired 1/25/03
•The New York Times 8/7/03
•USA Today 8/5/03
•Rolling Stone 11/7/03
•Boston Globe 11/30/03
•The New York Times 1/22/04
•Forbes 5/24/04
PRESS RELEASES
• LivePhish.com 12/20/02
• LiveDownloads.com 1/7/04
• LiveMetallica.com 3/2/04
• LiveWidespreadPanic.com 3/16/05
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ABOUT BRAD SERLING
NUGS.NET FOUNDER AND CEO
"A Johnny Appleseed of online concert recordings," according to The New York Times, Brad Serling has been active in the digital media space for over 10 years. In addition to founding and operating nugs.net, Brad most recently served for three years as Chief Technology Officer for CinemaNow (http://www.cinemanow.com), the leading provider of online video on demand and pay-per-view services of Hollywood feature films. At CinemaNow Brad conceived, developed, and deployed PatchBay, a platform for digital media distribution which currently powers the secure global delivery of millions of feature-length video streams and downloads per month. Currently Warner Brothers, MGM, Fox, and Disney all distribute their films through the platform Brad architected. Before joining CinemaNow Brad served as vice president of interactive development for AnswerThink (formerly THINK New Ideas). During his employment with AnswerThink, Brad was responsible for the online components of global advertising and marketing campaigns for such clients as Anheuser-Busch, IBM, HBO, Procter & Gamble, NFL, Chrysler, Oracle, and BMI. Prior to AnswerThink, Brad served as Executive Producer at On Ramp, Inc., where he pioneered web events for Woodstock 94, The Molson Ice Polar Beach Party with Metallica and Hole, The 37th Annual Grammy Awards, and eleven World Series webcasts. His experience has spanned all aspects of website development, live webcasting, multimedia content deployment, and large scale media distribution. Brad earned a B.A. in history from Cornell University.
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