 Nimbit has long-standing relationships with some of the best services and service providers for musicians and their teams.From CD-duplication, to website creation, song licensing, enhanced reporting tools and more, all of the critical services you need are right here. These partners understand your needs and they understand Nimbit, so you’ll get the most out of your direct-to-fan activities. |
CD & DVD Duplication / Promotional Printing
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Nimbit Disc Production Services Nimbit has over 15 years experience in CD and DVD replication and short run CD-R and DVD-R duplication. With short run turn times starting at 3 business days, and replication jobs as little 6 to 8 business days, your job is completed quickly, and professionally. Rush orders and custom printing are also available. Our CD and DVD pricing is all inclusive; there are no hidden charges. Packages are “retail ready,” and include everything you need! |
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Web Services & Hosting
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Blue Host (Hosting) The first thing you need is a great host and a registered URL. We are impressed with Bluehost.com. They have great pricing and excellent customer service. Please follow this link to get started with a Bluehost account. |
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Radroot Radroot is a professional creative agency. As a Certified Nimbit Integrator, we offer support packages for artists who want to take advantage of the Nimbit Instant BandSite WordPress plugin. So if you’re ready to rock, you came to the right place!. |
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D.I.Why? It’s not easy being a musician…You’re equal parts songwriter, performer, marketer, salesman, and financier. How are you going to do it all?Enter D.I.Why? We’re the team that works with your budget, your needs, and most of all…your success. From building your website to advanced marketing strategy, we’ve got it covered. It’s about working smart, right? |
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Section 101 Section 101 works with Music Artists to create websites with beautiful design options, easy-to-use site management tools, and key music industry features, including integration with Nimbit. A Section 101 website can be built quickly and cost effectively. Emerging and established Artists such as Carina Round, Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Diane Birch, Duran Duran, and Marc Cohn all rely on Section 101 to help them stand out online. Get started today! |
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Promotional Services
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Jango Nimbit has partnered with Jango to get your music played to millions of active music fans that listen to their favorite artists on Jango.com. Your music plays right along side the biggest names that you choose in Jango’s custom radio stations. Jango Airplay plays your music to their fans.Special Deal for Nimbit Members: Nimbit members new to Airplay can take advantage of a FREE Trial and 100 Spins. Also, Nimbit members get 20% more plays than the standard Jango Airplay promotion packages. Click here to setup a Jango Airplay account and receive 100 Guaranteed Spins for free. |
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FanBridge If you have a Facebook Fan page, you can now integrate our Nimbit Spotlight Store technology right inside Fanbridge’s powerful Facebook Fan Page Tab. With Fanbridge’s new partner ecosystem you can make a custom Fanbridge Facebook Fan Page that can not only include your Nimbit Store but also a multitude of other services of your choosing. |
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Powderfinger Promotions Powderfinger has come to be regarded as a top indie radio promoter and publicity firm with ties across North America. |
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Ariel Ariel Publicity is a digital PR firm that provides Cyber PR campaigns for artists, authors, and filmmakers. We understand what it takes for independent artists/entertainers (in any genre) to get the recognition, attention, and sales needed to succeed in today’s rapidly changing entertainment industry. To succeed in any of these areas today, you have to show up where the action is: online, in the brave new world of social media. We place all of our clients on internet radio stations, social networking sites, podcasts, blogs, vlogs, audio blogs, online music magazines, video sites, regional sites, and any other appropriate outlets. We also target relevant niche markets, exposing our clients to entirely different groups of fans. |
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Michael Brandvold Michael Brandvold is a freelance music industry consultant based in Northern California with years of experience providing assistance to signed and unsigned artists in the areas of online and social media marketing, digital strategy, content strategy, website development, blog coaching, fan generated content as well as e-commerce and fan acquisition and retention. Michael is also the co-host of the successful weekly podcast, The Music Biz Weekly, which provides insights, commentary and help on all thing music and marketing. Contact Michael for a free initial consultation conversation. |
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Liz Linder Photography Liz has worked with artists ranging from Guster to Aerosmith. Nimbit artists get 10% off. |
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Hype Genius HypeGenius is a leading provider of affordable social media solutions for musicians. Through strategic targeting via Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, HypeGenius guarantees a dramatic increase in exposure. |
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Financing
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PledgeMusic PledgeMusic is a leading international direct-to-fan platform for raising funds for musicians to record and tour. Nimbit has partnered with PledgeMusic to offer the PledgeStore powered by Nimbit. The PledgeStore is designed to give PledgeMusic artists the ability to provide their fans with more music from their catalog and to generate additional funding after their PledgeMusic Campaign has ended. |
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Slice The Pie Get $25,000 to record and market your album – online and free of charge. Slicethepie is a successful artist-financing engine where you can raise money directly from music fans worldwide to record, produce and market your album. Upload your tracks, have them reviewed by real music fans, and the top rated artists enter the Showcase to get financed – its simple! Join the 25 other artists and bands who have already raised their cash with Slicethepie, and sign up for free today. |
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Online Reporting
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Next Big Sound – Nimbit Customers Save 5% on Premier Next Big Sound provides a centralized platform to monitor all the aggregated activity happening for an artist online.With Next Big Sound Premier, all of this data is pulled into an easy to use dashboard alongside your imported iTunes, Facebook Insights, Google Analytics, etc … With a suite of applications drilling into song level detail, location filtering, advance reporting and heat mapping, we make data interactive and provide context by associating the events that drove those spikes and help close the loop between actions taken by the band and the results. Save 5% when you sign up for Premier with the discount code NIMBIT. |
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Song Clearance
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Limelight Limelight is the simplest way for artists, bands, choirs, and all other musical groups to obtain the mechanical licenses required for selling and distributing music legally. Artists can clear ANY cover song and ensure that 100% of royalties due are paid to publishers and songwriters.Five Reasons to Use Limelight:
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Opportunities
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Music Xray Music Xray is where thousands of music industry professionals conduct A&R in complete transparency. Music Xray does more than just provide opportunities to connect with A&R, you also can apply for career coaching, festivals & gigs, radio playlisting, tv & movie placement, publishing and so much more. Open an artist account with Music Xray Today! |
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Mastering & Recording
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Specialized Mastering Specialized Mastering provides only the most skilled mastering engineers, tasteful use of state of the art analog and digital gear, in a room tuned for optimal listening conditions. |
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M-Works High quality mastering (and e-mastering) at extremely reasonable rates. Equally comfortable with symphonic programs, rock, rap, country, metal, jazz, world, etc. Hi-bit digital audio side by side with analogue signal processing gives our engineers a wide spectrum of tools to bring to bear on each project. Credits include Nirvana, The Seattle Symphony, Morphine, Semisonic, Rahssan, Roland Kirk, James Taylor, David Bowie, Kiri Te Kanawa, Martin Sexton, Mission of Burma, Godsmack and many others. |
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Cliff Goldmacher Music Production Cliff Goldmacher Music Production, with studios in Nashville and New York City, specializes in broadcast-quality recordings for its songwriting clients. Using A-list session musicians and demo vocalists at the absolute top of their game, CGMP provides its clients with personalized attention and a product ready for listening at the highest levels of the music industry. |
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Contests & Fan Feedback
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Soundout Are you on the right track? SoundOut guarantees accurate and objective insight into your tracks, powered 100% by real music fans. It delivers fast, easy to use information and access to commercial opportunities that can help you succeed in the music industry. Upload your tracks today and use SoundOut to get great feedback from real people and enable industry players to find you. |
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WeAreListening.org We Are Listening is the only organization responsible for international music contests centered around a 360-approach to artist development, promotion, and new media music marketing. Attracting the most determined independent artists from over 50 countries, We Are Listening has become the most influential song contest and song critique provider for songwriters, lyricists and recording artists. |
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Training and Education
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Berkleemusic Berkleemusic is the online branch of Berklee College of Music, the world’s premier institution for the study of contemporary music. Get valuable training in a wide range of subjects from anywhere in the world. Register through your nimbit account and receive special discounts. |
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Music Business Solutions Helping musicians, songwriters and industry careerists start and grow successful music businesses through vital information and creative management strategies. Industry expert, Peter Spellman, and his team offer concise answers to a whole host of questions for independent musicians. Nimbit artists get discounts on MBS books and products. |
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Music Industry Associations
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A2IM The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) serves the Independent music community as a unified voice representing a broad coalition of music labels from a sector that comprises over 30% of the music industry’s market share in the U.S. A2IM is a Non-Profit Corporation operated by and for the benefit of its Members promoting sector opportunity and improving the business conditions for its combined membership. |
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ASCAP ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing the world’s largest repertory totaling over 8 million copyrighted musical works. ASCAP members enjoy special discounts on our premium plans. |
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