Over here at Promo News we are delighted and ever so slightly petrified to announce that the new version of the website – Promonews 2.0, if you like – is almost ready to launch. And from today, we are inviting our readers to take a look at their new site, explore, use, and send us their feedback. You can find it over at beta/promonews.tv.
We’ve been working on this new version of Promo News for the past few months, and we hope that it offers the same daily feed of music video creativity and production news, but adds some big new features to the site. These include:
• Profile pages: every production credit on every video is now linked to a profile page, and all credited individuals and companies have their own pages.
• Call Sheet area: users can filter a search for an individual or company by type (eg Art Direction, Editorial, Production).
• New music video categories: you can watch videos by music genre and video creative style (eg, Narrative, Comedy, Performance)
• YouTube/Vimeo viewers: current viewing data now visible with each video featured on the site.
• Video submissions: videos and credit information submitted via a new online form.
• New editorial features, including playlists
• New weekly round-up newsletter
If that’s not all, we are planning to introduce new elements of user engagement and interactivity in the next few weeks, where music video professionals who have profiles on Promo will be able to control and enhance those profiles.
And at the moment the new site is still very much a work in progress. It contains a lot of credit data that has been migrated from the existing system where it has been simply entered as text – a very difficult task, and where variations in the way names and companies have been listed or spelled in Promo up to now, they has been faithfully replicated in the new profile pages.
We are now engaged in the huge job of cleaning up the profiles. And obviously you can help. If you are a music video professional that has more than one profile in the new site, and want us to consolidate into one profile, please let us know via the new site’s Feedback button, by letting us know your preferred profile page. This should ideally be the one containing the lion’s share of video credits, and then we will move all your other credits into that profile.
Check on the new Promo News website here!
