Meet Muze at Midem

Muzers from the US and Europe will be exhibiting at Midem 2008. From our London office Publishing Director Doug Marshall, Business Development Manager Nazan Birant and Industry Relations Manager Howard Richardson will be in Cannes. If you’re a label wanting to be featured on our European databases, or a company that promotes music online, we’d love to hear from you. To book an appointment call us on + 44 20 7566 8261, or alternatively pop along to see us at the Palais Des Festival on stand R35.11

January 2008

Muze for Mobiles

Muze provides a number of innovative solutions for companies wishing to enhance their music services. Whether you are a network operator, device manufacturer or application provider, or wapsite publisher, Muze can enrich the end users' music experience - with standardised databases, artist biographies, search and discover tools, and our new multi-national music news service.

Muze album information brings credibility and searchability to any mobile music service. MuzeMusic can provide clean, standardised music meta data to enable better searching of titles and artists.

Muze album data is fast becoming the European standard - with live services covering releases in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain, with more databases to follow soon.

MuzeMusic also features cover scans, album annotations and press excerpts for maximum user engagement. Album annotations can be provided in bite sized versions - ideal for WAP pages.

Muze Artist information provides invaluable search and discovery tools - helping users make exciting discoveries, and helping you increase sales. Shorter biographies, band images and related links makes for an interactive experience.

MuzeNews is our new daily service of music of tour news, release updates and industry gossip. Currently available in Dutch, Italian Spanish, with new services being launched soon.

Want to increase your ad inventory? With Muze you can set up band pages - with biographies and music news. This is now a multi-national service.

January 2008

MuzeStills

2008 will see the addition of the new MuzeStills service to Muze Europe's already comprehensive portfolio of music and film data products.

MuzeStills is a library of over 1200 studio photographs and film stills from definitive cinematic works and has been compiled in association with the distinguished Rex Features picture library. Designed to work in conjunction with MuzeVideo UK in the online retail sector as a rich-data 'add-on' product, it will make an essential addition to any video database and can be integrated with most existing data sets.

For any online video retail or rental site MuzeReels will give an additional level of detail on the title or star that will engage film enthusiasts and online shoppers and help customers to recognise releases and actors and help generate sales. Unlike many other picture library services using MuzeStills will dispense with the hassle and additional costs of royalties, and can be licensed from Muze Europe as a complete product ready for use on you website or database.

December 2007

USB Memory Sticks introduced to MuzeMusic UK

USB Sticks have been added to the MuzeMusic UK database as a new format. Included on the database is Keane single 'The Night Sky', the debut album 'Not Here to Please You' from new rave group Hadouken, and the re-released Rolling Stones compilation 'Rolled Gold+'. Twelve releases are currently featured on the database.

Commenting on the releases, Muze's music editorial manager James Wilkinson commented: "USB Sticks is a new format in a market dominated by CDs in the last 20 years. Their advantage over CDs is their memory - whole back catalogues can be stored on one USB as EMI have just done with their 4GB Radiohead release. There is also more flexibility with the shape and packaging. Plus there is the ability to store your own files and use as a normal storage device."

The launch of MuzeReels now provides the online video retailer with a fully integrated film trailer service. MuzeReels responds to customers' ever-higher expectations of the e-tail experience by providing over 6,000 unique cinematic trailers for cinema releases in both the UK and US.

Complementing and fully integrated with the existing MuzeVideo UK data set MuzeReels enables online retail websites access to engaging additional content which will provide a richer experience to customers and help improve stickiness to a website. MuzeReels follows in the footsteps of our other rich-data services including Essential Artists and the Muze EPM to provide an industry standard in film and music data services to the online retailer.

Trailers carry the same certification as the counterpart video and can be supplied in several formats and bit-rates. This enables MuzeReels a great flexibility in its applications, and the ability to provide different levels of service to suit different budgets.