“EDMX has been a helpful partner to develop solutions that showcase the unique offerings at DDP’s festivals. EDMX provides rich artist content and scheduling abilities, but also allows fans to browse festivals world-wide and connect with one another. That community of fans is a particularly important part of its appeal.” – Evan Bailey // Marketing Director // Disco Donnie Presents.
With this new update for the app, EDMX brings a slew of features that will exude all exisiting EDM and festival apps, just look at what all the app has to offer with this recent update.
The EDMX Festival Guide provides the following features:· 175 Festivals and over 2500 DJs that instantly load for you to explore
· Build custom schedules for the festivals you are attending and share with your friends
· Get tickets, view maps, and check-in at any festival
· Check out artist’s bio, music, photos and upcoming festival dates
· Listen and share artist tracks, mixes, and sets
· Build audio playlists
· “Favorite” festivals to get notifications on schedule updates
· “Favorite” artists to get notifications when they get added to festival lineups
· Custom profiles keep track of your festival life, including check-ins, badges, friends and favorites
· Take photos and share them with other festival goers via Instagram
Currently the EDMX app is only available for Apple products, but an Android app will be released in the future along with some other features that will truly change the way we consume electronic music and news.
• EDMX is the only app for iPhone and Android containing every EDM festival in the world, over 2500 artists and a news feed which aggregates all the top EDM blogs.
• EDMX uses its unique festival interface as a lead in into the rapidly expanding EDM marketplace. Once a user is in the app, they find a huge selection of artists, new music, photos and other content that surrounds the culture.
• For its festival technology, EDMX manually collects all festival and artist data in house. We understand that festivals are busy and need to focus their resources efficiently. EDMX is an all-inclusive platform, which provides festivals and users a solution by offering everything found on individual festival apps. EDMX also has functionality for large-scale conferences like Winter Music Conference, BPM Festival, and Moogfest.
• Individual festival apps are only downloaded/accessed a couple weeks before and are soon forgotten after the festival. EDMX keeps users engaged with a year-round app which brands find attractive. Artists, Festivals and News are updated daily.
Users are able to create profiles where they can save their favorites, earn badges for participation through the app, post their Check-ins, and share their social media & music profiles.
• EDMX’s extensive content enables users to listen to their favorite artists, discover new artists, and build their schedules, exciting them for the upcoming event and enriching their festival experience.
• EDMX has a one-of-a-kind database with unmatched Artist and Festival data. Currently the app contains 150 + global festivals with 3,000 + artist profiles and growing.
• EDMX allows users to generate their own content (e.g. photos, schedules, favorites, and playlists) to share with their friends and followers, virally promoting festivals.
KEY FEATURES OF THE EDMX APP:
FESTIVALS:
• EDMX’s festival list is like having 175 different festivals’ apps in one phone. There’s no other app with this feature.
• Instantly load the festival and get all the important details, including: location, date, ticket links, lineup, photos and more.
• Instantly load the lineup to check out the artists and visit their profile pages, view set times, make your custom schedule, and enable notification.
• There are hundreds of festivals that are not utilizing mobile to fully enhance their event experience. EDMX creates yearlong engagement for events, extending relevancy and prominence beyond the actual festivals’ date.
ARTISTS:
EDMX provides you with in-depth and update artists profiles including photos, music, events, news, and more.
• Comprehensive artist profiles are accessible from a festival line up page or the artist search. If accessed from a festival, the festival name and artist schedule will appear.
• The artist page is one of the most comprehensive pages you can find on any app. It includes:
ARTIST HOME PAGE: – Bio, pic, social links
ARTIST MUSIC: – users can listen to full songs from the artists’s souncloud and create playlists leading to extended use on the app
PHOTOS AND VIDEO: – Photos and video are pulled from that artist’s social media accounts (Instagram)
TOUR DATES: – An instantly loadable list of festivals where the artist is performing
PROFILES:
Each EDMX user will get a personal “Profile Page” which will be viewable by other users on the app.
Favorites, Friends, and check-ins drive user participation and sharing the EDMX app with their friends, with badges coming soon.
The user’s “Profile Page” includes:
• MAIN PROFILE NAVIGATION
Access to “Info” “Friends” and “Favorites”
• CHECK-INS
List populated from check-ins at festivals, stages, and sponsored check-ins.
• EDIT PROFILE
Ability to customize and edit your profile data.
Another exciting feature of the user profiles is the ability to achieve badges that will have certain merit and rewards in the EDM community. Much like FourSquare, badges are rewarded in the areas of:
· Festival Check-ins: Amount, distance, loyalty, etc.
· Social: Posting pictures, sharing from the app, etc.
· Participation: Favoriting, create schedule, add festivals, etc.
· Special: Badges created with festival and brand partners
ABOUT THE EDMX FOUNDERS:
Scott Richmond – Founder of Satellite Records and SatelliteEDM, the largest EDM record store in the 1900s and 2000s, now a digital download store. Satellite has been a technological innovator in the EDM scene since the launch of its website in 1996. At its peak, Scott managed 3 stores plus their website, with a staff of over 100 employess, and the Satellite Records label group which included the heralded Central Park and Pitch Black labels. Scott has continued in various ventures in EDM in product development, apps, branding, and music video. Scott’s specialties include business development, content licensing, acquisition and management; sales and marketing. Scott has over 20 years of experience with an unparalleled network in the EDM industry including hundreds of DJS, managers, booking agencies, record labels, music aggregators and distributors, and publishers.
William Wong – For the last several years, William has been COO/CTO at SatelliteEDM, overseeing the technical design and the delivery of the retail platform and being responsible for the company’s finances. He spearheaded the development of SatelliteEDM’s digital platforms and it’s implementation. Previous to SatelliteEDM, William successfully founded and sold ShopperSafe, an ecommerce security company. William started his career in Silicon valley where he spent 12 years in Professional Services, Engineering, Sales and Support. The last company William worked for was acquired by Oracle. William holds a BASc in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
“The EDMX app is a continuation of my life’s mission to unify all the aspects of dance music culture under one roof. We’re doing this by marrying the pillars of EDM – festivals, artists, news, fans and music; along with data, and information, to create one sleek, sexy and easy to use platform. I live the dance music culture and always have since I was 14. My first company, Satellite Records, helped break the ground for online record stores – being the first with sound samples and creating the categorization of dance music every person takes for granted now; and it’s physical locations being a home for dance music culture. Now I want to continue that innovation with a platform fit for the mobile app frontier. EDMX is about community; it’s a place for connectivity and exploration. It’s an app for music lovers by music lovers. What more could you want?” – SCOTT RICHMOND // FOUNDER // EDMX
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