Startup of the Week - WholeWorldBand
by Startacus Admin
As anybody involved in the music industry will vouch for, it’s certainly changed a lot in the last few years.
The demise of high street record stores and the rise in downloads have all played their part in making a musician’s lot a far from happy one - especially when it comes to making money. 
Therefore the fact there seems to be a bit of a trend in new online businesses which aim to help musicians both market their work and also earn some money has to be a good thing. Our latest Startup of the Week is one such business.
The aptly named WholeWorldBand is an innovative audio-visual music platform and mobile app which enables anyone to earn money by recording their own music or by adding to someone else’s music in both sound and vision. Users will be able to play with well-known, established artists and bands as well as new and emerging, undiscovered talent.
With famous artists in particular, WholeWorldBand is providing a pretty innovative and novel way for them to interact with their fans.
Making money from WholeWorldBand can be done by if you add or ‘seed’ a new recording or if you contribute to an existing recording. The user who ‘seeds’ the recording determines how much of the revenue is shared with those who contribute.
The WholeWorldBand platform and app will launch officially in the next few months and will be available for iOS devices only. Can’t wait? You can sign up now and be notified as soon as it goes live.
Check out the video below to give you a little flavour of what it’s all about.
WholeWorldBand
In a sense WholeWorldBand is like having a recording studio in the cloud that anyone can access, no matter where they are in the world. That’s awesome enough in itself, but the fact that the platform could potentially help musicians make money makes it even better. We think it rocks.
Now....where did I put my Strat...
If you like this weeks Startup of the Week - check out last weeks Startup of the Week too.
The Startacus Startup of the Week is supported by Rackspace, the global leader in cloud hosting. Rackspace are committed to helping startups and through the Rackspace Startup Program they offer selected tech startups a whole host of benefits including 12 months free Rackspace Cloud Hosting and Services. Further details on the Rackspace Startup Program can be found here
If you like what you see here on Startacus and want to get involved yourself, why not become a member of our growing community by joining for free here!
Or... if you prefer, why not get features like this direct to your inbox by signing up to receive our bi-monthly newsletter. Simply
Subscribe to our newsletter
If you would like to receive our startup themed newsletter, full of the latest startup opportunities, events, news, stories, tips and advice, then sign up here.
Software has become a powerful tool for businesses to harness. here are 4 software essentials your startup could adopt right now.
The Dublin-based MedTech company that is enabling remote monitoring of those with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms who are in self-isolation
The new FinTech platform that provides “the easy way to sell your unused and unwanted foreign cash currency at the best rates”.
In order to combat some of the impact caused by the coronavirus, many tourism focused attractions are turning to tech solutions. Here's a few!
The Trinity College spinout that has created a cost-effective hand hygiene training system teaching the WHO technique…
The lowdown on Budget Music Videos, the Belfast-based startup that will help you make a music video in a matter of minutes
BMW’s Innovation Lab next two sprints focuses on improving internal customer-led efficiencies or tech solutions that provide valuable data insights and analytics
WebARX create a COVID-19 cyber threats page to collect all the cyber attacks and online threats surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic
Require external capital to fund growth and worried about the potential impact coronavirus may have on your funding plans?
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chivas Divides its $1m No-Strings Venture Fund Between 26 Startups
Published on: 17th April 2013
.png)
If you would like to enable commenting via your Startacus account, please enable Disqus functionality in your Account Settings.
- Chivas Venture divides this year's $1m Venture Fund between 26 global Startups 23rd Mar 2020 In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chivas Divides its $1m No-Strings Venture Fund Between 26 Startups
- The open-source design of emergency ventilators for COVID-19 patients 20th Mar 2020 World Wide Community of over 500 designers engineers & medics finalising prototypes for safe scalable manufacture & rapid field deployment..
- Positive-ish reaction from small business and startup community to UK Chancellor’s Corona budget 11th Mar 2020 New UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak just delivered his first UK Budget. We took a look at first reactions from small business and startup leaders.
- Hyper-realistic plant-based meat company THIS™ raises £4.7m 11th Mar 2020 Major investment news for THIS™, arguably the world's most realistic meat alternative company, to help it keep up with growing demand
