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Well I was hoping to beat YouTube to the punch on making an announcement. I have been developing this on my site http://NowScene.com. It seemed only logical for YouTube which is now becoming the place for artists to get exposure, to incorporate links for people to purchase MP3s. I show a link to Amazon next to every live music video I display. Works pretty well. But because the video title also contains location information. I inform my customers to click the link then remove any extra text from the artist information for better results. But I will make improvements in the future.

More power to YouTube's success with this. I certainly believe in the concept since I developed this too. More improvements in the future since this the site is still early stage. But I wanted it documented that I did this first before YouTube made their announcement today.

-Randy O
Founder http://NowScene.com

Well I was hoping to beat YouTube to the punch on making an announcement. I have been developing this on my site http://NowScene.com. It seemed only logical for YouTube which is now becoming the place for artists to get exposure, to incorporate links for people to purchase MP3s. I show a link to Amazon next to every live music video I display. Works pretty well. But because the video title also contains location information. I inform my customers to click the link then remove any extra text from the artist information for better results. But I will make improvements in the future.

More power to YouTube's success with this. I certainly believe in the concept since I developed this too. More improvements in the future since this the site is still early stage. But I wanted it documented that I did this first before YouTube made their announcement today.

-Randy O
Founder http://NowScene.com

I apologize JDBB I misread your post. You stated Intentional not International. No itis not intentional. The link works. When you click on the Amazon MP3 download button it takes the YouTube Video title and passes this to Amazon. Sometimes the title has location text in it. So if you remove the text leaving only the artists information then your search results will improve. I mention this in the text below the button. I’m not as tightly integrated as YouTube is with their videos.

I welcome any other comments seeing as I had to come out of hiding today. This is the first time people have seen my site.

Thanks,
Randy
http://www.nowscene.com

Only if Amazon is doing something on the sly. You should be able to go into the site even from international. I don't believe at this time you can purchase Amazon MP3 downloads from anywhere but the USA. They will most certainly change that in the future.

Thanks for the compliments. Still early stage and will be making improvements for the future. YouTube has a bigger budget than me. ;-) I hope you tried the StreetView I integrated on the scene map. Just click "Take me to the scene". I'm really trying to get my customers to engage with the video content. I want them to feel like they are there on the scene.

Randy O
http://www.nowscene.com

Craig,

I can tell you that under a standard agreement with Amazon. You can expect a minimum of 10%. It can add up quickly. Plus the Indies bands that play in clubs have thier music on Amazon as well. Plus bios on the bands/artists. amazon has been very friendly witht he indies to upload and get paid for their music. I downloaded an MP3 and the Albumn art and song were automaticly placed iinto my iTunes so I was able to added it easily to my iPod.

Thats one of the reasons why I added amazon to my video site.

-Randy

Founder Nowscene.com

Well I was hoping to beat YouTube to the punch on making an announcement. I have been developing this on my site NowScene.com. It seemed only logical for YouTube which is now becoming the place for artists to get exposure, to incorporate links for people to purchase MP3s. I show a link to Amazon next to every live music video I display. Works pretty well. But because the video title also contains location information. I inform my customers to click the link then remove any extra text from the artist information for better results. But I will make improvements in the future.

More power to YouTube's success with this. I certainly believe in the concept since I developed this too. More improvements in the future since this the site is still early stage. But I wanted it documented that I did this first before YouTube made their announcement today.

-Randy O
Founder NowScene.com