Those that regularly visit torrent sites may notice that some of them occasionally feature a message of the day that is promoting music or film that the creators willingly uploaded to the site in the hope that it’d create some artist awareness. However, most of the torrent sites that feature the occasional band or film rarely do it in some official format. The Pirate Bay is here to make artist promotion through torrent sites official, and is launching The Promo Bay, an artist promotion platform through which an artist can be promoted on The Pirate Bay’s homepage, free of charge.
Instead of a simple message of the day or text link, The Promo Bay will replace the iconic The Pirate Bay logo on the homepage with the artist’s promotion materials. The rules state that if an artist does have something to promote, they just create their own replacement for The Pirate Bay logo and choose a maximum of three countries to which they’d prefer it shown — The Pirate Bay team does note that if they find the artist’s materials “mind blowing,” that they just might promote the artist worldwide, rather than only to the three countries.
If you want to throw your hat into The Promo Bay ring, simply head on over to their submission page, read the few rules first, then fill out the quick form. Make sure you have a preexisting address at which The Pirate Bay team can view your material. The Pirate Bay maintains around 1.8 billion pageviews a month, so being featured on the torrent site is no small matter, and hopefully the new platform will succeed in getting the word out for deserving, unknown artists.
(h/t TorrentFreak)
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Published: Jan 17, 2012 10:25 am