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About iLike

iLike is the Web's leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook®, Orkut, hi5 and Bebo platforms. With more than 45 million registered users, iLike helps people share music recommendations, playlists, and personalized concert alerts. The iLike Sidebar for iTunes and Windows Media Player suggests new music, creates automatic playlists, and connects people through music. iLike offers musicians and labels a Universal Artist Dashboard™ from which to reach fans and manage their presence across multiple channels: Facebook, Orkut, hi5, Bebo, iLike.com, Ask.com, iLike Sidebar plugins for iTunes and Windows Media Player, and iLike’s iPhone application. By leveraging iLike's "artist-fan graph," a vast database of connections between consumers and their favorite artists, iLike helps artists reach their fans and cultivate the viral spread of their music. iLike, inc also runs indie music site GarageBand.com.


Social Music Discovery
iLike is on:
For Fans:

iLike.com - enables fans to discover and share playlists, new music that matches their personal tastes, and concerts by their favorite artists. iLike offers retail links to iTunes and Amazon to purchase music, Ticketmaster to purchase concert tickets and Thumbplay for ringtones. Take the tour.

The iLike Sidebar - The iLike Sidebar scans your music library, recommends new music, and helps you connect musically with your friends and the broader iLike community. The iLike Sidebar also offers customized, local concert information. The iLike Sidebar scans your iTunes music library and alerts you when artists you like and are listening to are coming to town, putting out a new release, or have posted videos, songs or blogs. (Windows Media Player support is also available). Download the iLike Sidebar now.

iLike on Leading Social Networks Worldwide - iLike is the dominant music application on Facebook, Orkut, Bebo and hi5. Using the popular iLike application, music fans on these leading social networks worldwide can add music to their profiles, be alerted to concerts and new releases by the artists they enjoy, see what music and concerts their friends like, and communicate directly with their favorite artists.
For Artists:

Post Once, Publish Everywhere - Artists can use the iLike Universal Artist Dashboard™ to manage their presence on Facebook, iLike.com, Ask.com, iLike Sidebar plugins for iTunes and Windows Media Player, the iLike iPhone application, Orkut, and Bebo and hi5 (the leading social networks in the UK and Latin America).

Major Artists Choose iLike for Fan Communication - Major artists from all genres of music are using iLike’s Universal Artist Dashboard™ and multimedia blogging tools to syndicate their music and content across the Web. More than 200,000 leading artists are now using iLike to manage their online presence across the Web.

iLike’s Artist Video “Greatest Hits” - Check out this short video montage, which features just a few of the major acts (including Bono, Jason Mraz, Keith Urban, Linkin Park and R.E.M.) who have recently posted exclusive video content on iLike for immediate syndication across the Web.

ARTISTS: - Reach the most fans with the least effort, for free. Click here to get started today!
For Promoters:

Promote a new artist, concert, or album using iLike. Our music-promotion platform helps you instantly create multimedia ads that target users by location and music taste. Learn more.
For Developers:

Read about our Developer Platform and sign up – any Web site or application developer can add interactive music features with very little engineering effort – just a few lines of HTML and JavaScript.

Having spent years building the underlying technology for iLike's music service, we decided to help other developers use it: without difficult coding, without much server-side engineering, and without having to understand the hassles and complexities of the world's vast catalog of music.